Sports Champions 2

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I am a big fan of "The Fight : Lights out" and I bought SC2 primarily for boxing. Frankly I haven't played other games in SC2, but I can say boxing alone is worth the price of admission if you are into this type of game. If you liked Lights out, you will love SC2 boxing.

Both Lights out and SC2 boxing provide great workout and very accurate 1-1 mapping of your movement. However, I think SC2 boxing is more fun, realistic, and make you sweat more for the following reasons:

1) Unlike Lights out, you can't upgrade game character's skill by in-game trainings or buying add-on package. Your game character is only as good as your own speed, stamina, and the game plan. This makes sense because, this way, when you advance, you know it's because of the improvement of your own skill, not that of the game character.

2) SC2 boxing is much harder especially when you get to the gold level and up. You have to have game plan to win. You won't be able to win without understanding opponent's tendency & pattern, dodging, blocking and counter striking. You have to have really fast combo sequence like dodge, left upper-cut, right straight, and step back, etc. The faster you can do this, the less likely to be countered and the more damage you can dole out. You really need to work at it, and this becomes a great intense workout.

3) Fight can last long sometimes to 5 rounds decision especially with certain opponents who tend to wait for you to throw first and counter. So you have to balance your stamina. A grueling long fight is actually more fun and satisfying, and you are guaranteed to sweat from a couple of fights like this.

4) Some other thoughts You can throw a fake punch, and the opponent sometimes reacts to that making himself more vulnerable for your follow-up attacks. That's how realistic this game is. Again, counter punching is the key and incur much more damage. You have to pay close attention to opponent's movement and develop a good reflex. Graphic, animation, sounds, and vibration feedback are fantastic compared to Lights out which is black & white and too dark. A couple of gripes I have compared to Lights out are that SC2 doesn't have an online mode and character's face doesn't reflect incurred damages (like cuts, bruises, blood, etc) I guess this is a family game so I can understand the latter, but I really wished it had the online mode which would have been super fun.

Don't get me wrong, Lights out is still a great fight game (more brawl type of game), but SC2 boxing seemed to have outdone it by adding more elements of realism and strategy. Sorry, at this point, I am just playing boxing and haven't had chance to play other games, but wanted to let you boxing fan know as soon as possible how good SC2 boxing is.

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I'm still playing the first one because is still great, but this new one is more than great! The good thing is (If you still like the first one) with this one you have 6 more different games, so you don't have to get rid of the first one because with both you have 12 different games to play.

This new one came with the following games: Skiing, Tennis, Boxing, Bowling, Golf and Archery (This Archery is different than the Archery of the first one).

Also came with the following features and content:

Bonus Golf DLC (Free code to download at Playstation network) with three modes: Scramble, Best Ball and Stableford.

Additional content in the DVD game: Two demo games, Medieval Moves "Deadmund's Quest" and Sport Champions the first one, just install and play. If you buy the second one and don't have the first one, you can try it in this demo.

Additional content in the DVD game: Sport champions 2 digital manual, the game did not comes with a printed manual like other games, the manual is digital.

Is 3D compatible.

You can create and customize the characters.

You can play using one or two Move controllers, along or multiplayer.

You can play Three modes: Free mode, champion mode and a new party mode.

You can practice each game before begins the mode you want.

This is a great game to play with someone or along. I think the price is ok, but you can wait until black Friday and maybe get a better price. I hope this review can be helpful.

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for $40, a pretty amazing value.

So far, the boxing is great. Its not as complex a game as The Fight, but the game play is simpler and in some ways more fun. The boxing opponents are easy, but I've only played once, and in "bronze cup," so I'm sure they'll improve. I'm hoping The Fight comes out with another version at some point, or someone puts together a top notch "move controller" boxing game. The programming on this version of boxing is a good step toward that goal.

I was looking forward to the Bowling, since I've enjoyed the Wii version with friends in the past. Unfortunately it's disappointing because Wii bowling is still better. I played a 10 frame game with 2 other people, and none of us ever threw a gutter ball, which is annoying and unrealistic. Takes some of the fun out of actually rolling a good ball. I was hoping there was something in Game Options like "gutter balls, on or off," or "easy, medium, hard." But there isn't, and unless the difficulty level increases and gutter balls become part of the game as the game advances in difficulty through Cup Play, it sort of ruins an otherwise nicely programmed bowling game.

The skiing is actually fun, nice to have a racing game with the motion controllers.

archery is more or less like the last one, not something I really care about. But its probably great if you like target games. It's certainly well done. If you liked the last one, you'll like this one. The events are creative.

The golf is as good or better then Wii golf. I think the disk golf of Sports C 1 is a better game so far, but this golf is still well done, and a good addition.

I don't think the Tennis is as good as the table tennis of the first one, but maybe it'll get better as the difficulty increases, just like the table tennis did in the first one.

All the games are well done in this version, the bowling is the only disappointment due to the gutter ball issue. Well worth the money if you liked Sports Champions 1.

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This game offers 6 new sports to play with the playstation move, and it works just as great, if not better than the first one.

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I love the first Sports Champions, so was extremely excited for this one to come out. The sequel improves in almost every way, but here's how I break down the comparison:

Archery vs Archery Both games have it, the second one seems to be a little better.

Bowling vs Bocce I personally enjoy Bocce, more variety etc.

Boxing vs GladiatorBoth fun, but I like the gladiator from the 1st one a little better.

Tennis vs Ping PongPing Pong was my favorite from the 1st and to me is MUCH better than tennis.

Golf vs Frisbee Frisbee lends itself to the move in a much more natural way.

Skiing vs VolleyballHard to say. I do like the skiing a lot.

Overall, the second one is more polished, adds some great things, and improves upon the first in presentation and a few features. However, as far as a sport by sport comparison, I enjoyed the first one's sports a little better. I am not sorry I purchased either one at all, but after the newness of this one wears off a bit, I have a feeling I'm gonna go back to the first more often than this one.