Fight Night Round 2

Overview

Fight Night Round 2 (also known as Fight Night 2005) is a 2005 boxing video game developed by EA Chicago and published by EA Sports. The sequel to Fight Night 2004, it was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. It was the only game in the series to be released on a Nintendo platform; the GameCube version contains Little Mac from Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series as a playable character in addition to an emulated version of Super Punch-Out!! in a collaboration with Nintendo.

Total Punch Control, a control scheme introduced in Fight Night 2004, returns in Fight Night Round 2. With Total Punch Control, movement and most maneuvers, including punching, leaning and blocking, are performed with the left or right analog sticks, modified by the left or right triggers. For example, with the default controller configuration, moving the right thumbstick up and to the left will cause the fighter to throw a straight punch with his left hand, while holding down the right trigger while performing the same movement and then holding will cause the fighter to raise his guard to the left side of his head, ready to attempt a parry.

Fight Night Round 2 expands upon the Total Punch Control scheme with the addition of another feature, the EA SPORTS Haymaker. An EA SPORTS Haymaker is a more powerful version of one of the basic power punches (hooks and uppercuts) and is performed by pulling the analog stick back before performing the movements for a regular punch. If it connects, a Haymaker causes quite a bit of damage, can stagger the victim and may cause an instant knockdown, regardless of the victim's health or stamina status. If blocked, the Haymaker does very little to no damage while consuming a great deal of stamina from the attacking boxer. If parried, the attacker is pushed off-balance and is left vulnerable to a Haymaker or combination attack.

Fight Night Round 2 received favorable reviews, more so than the first game, as reported by video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the GameCube and PS2 versions a score of all four eights, for a total of 32 out of 40.

Game details

Genres

Fighting, Sport

Developer

EA Sports, EA Canada

Publisher

EA Sports

Series

Fight Night

Platforms

Xbox, PlayStation 2

Age rating

ESRB T

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

Yes

Online multiplayer

Yes

Co op

No

Age ratings

ESRB

T

Release dates

Editions

Buy this game

Playable today

Credits

Publisher

EA Sports

Developer

EA Sports, EA Canada

Released

2005-03-01

Age rating

ESRB T

Region

US

Time to beat

about 10.7 hours