Don King Presents: Prizefighter Developer Conference Call
Posted by Ramon Aranda on 06.09.2008
We talk to the developers along with Don King and Larry Holmes about 2K Sports' latest title.
Don King Presents: Prizefighter Conference Call
Executive Producer: Matthew Seymour; Don King; Larry Holmes
This past week, we had a chance to talk to Matthew Seymore, Executive Producer of Don King Presents: Prizefighter, along with Don King and Larry Holmes about the game as it approaches its release date of June 10th. Seymore noted that 2K Sports was really trying to differentiate themselves from other past boxing games by focusing on a mockumentary style story mode. The developers met up with Don King to hear stories from King’s career and they looked over hours and hours of footage that they were able to use as a starting point for the story. The career mode itself is sort of a “rags to riches” story that brings your fighter up from a nobody to a world champion. Along the way, you have to deal with various temptations from a party lifestyle to women and commercial endorsements. Your fighter will have a media profile rating which affects the crowd reaction of your fighter. The more you find yourself in the limelight, the more fans you’ll have and the higher the media profile, the better boost you’ll receive in your stats. Your ultimate goal of course is to make it to the top of the boxing world. Sadly, there will be no aging process so you won’t have to deal with your fighter in decline as the developers felt that it would only take away from the overall experience. The story mode will provide roughly 15 hours of play as told in a documentary style presentation.
2K Sports has licensed both current fighters and legends such as James Braddock, Joe Louis, Ken Norton, Larry Holmes, Samuel Peter, Shannon Briggs, Andrew Golota, Sergei Liakovich, Kelly Pavlik, Joe Calzaghe, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., Ray Mancini, and Sugar Ray Leonard to name a few. HBO veteran commentator Jim Lampley will be doing the play by play commentary and he’ll be joined by the legendary Emanuel Steward as the color commentator – a duo that should please boxing fans. Matthew Seymore talked about how Lampley was a machine in the recording studio, doing over 800 lines of commentary in a short period of time. 2K Sports has also licensed various equipment from manufacturers like Cleto Reyes, Everlast, Grant and even Compubox (which tallies the amount of punches thrown and landed).
Along with the story mode, the game will also feature exhibitions, fight club style multiplayer where the best man wins in any weight class and single elimination tournaments. As for the online mode, you can have a stable of five different fighters from different weight classes and there will be online leaderboards for the various online modes.
Don King Presents: Prizefighter, which is developed by Venom Games – makers of Rocky and Rocky Legends, is out on June 10th with a demo to follow shortly.
