Ready to Rumble ready to return

by JC Fletcher on Dec 2nd 2008 4:32PM

EA's Facebreaker K.O. Party doesn't seem to have met with the task of imitating Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. According to this new announcement, the next Wii game to attempt the feat may be ... oh, hey, Ready 2 Rumble Boxing!

Ready 2 Rumble Revolution was first announced back in 2006, but that's too long ago to count. This time, however, the announcement from Atari is for real, with screens and everything. Unfortunately, those screens show off the new character designs, which are based on celebrities and also awful.

Revolution is developed by the wrestling game company formerly known as AKI, and thus is actually quite likely to be good. Of course, it stands no chance of competing with Punch-Out!! in terms of sales or hype, but Ready 2 Rumble used to be decent fun.

[Via NeoGAF]

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Tags: aki, atari, boxing, ready-2-rumble, ready-2-rumble-revolution

Reader Comments (3)

I really liked R2R back in the n64 days. However with no wii-motion plus support (I'm assuming since they dont mention it), I dont see how this can improve on wii sports-boxing (which still is not great).

i didnt know the demand for boxing games were so high that we now have:

one packaged with the system

2 original titles already released

and 2 more to be released.

possibly a fight night as well.

Let's hope this will use the wii motion plus as it seems likely to not come out until late 09 or 10 from the little info we know about it, which usually points to a still early in development flag being raised. I hope they will bring back the old boxers as unlockable characters, but more likely a dlc will be made, to cash in on the game, if it does well. The only problem I have of the only trailer available right now showing the game in action, is that, to me, r2r boxing was known for way out there fast and furious characters and their combos, but mostly for their insane RUMBLE combo's which could last up to at least 6+ secs and which was mostly unblockable, of which the trailer showed none. I think AKI was taking itself too seriously, since r2r boxing, never took itself seriouly at all, lol. Finally, I want to see a "Bush" and "mccain" and maybe even an "obama" like boxer to grace the game, and since the rumble quote guy is in the game, I know we'll all be seeing rumble man again, haha.