Summary: The hilarious Ready 2 Rumble franchise is flexing its muscles and planning a major, star-studded return to the ring with the launch of Ready 2 Rumble Revolution, the newest game in the much-loved series. Bringing the franchise to Wii for the first time, the game retains all the knockout features of best-sellers Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Round 1 and Round 2, while delivering a knockout punch of style and attitude. Tailored to take advantage of the motion-controlled realism of Wii, Ready 2 Rumble Revolution makes landing a punch more fun than ever. Ready 2 Rumble Revolution features a roster of 18 wildly caricatured cartoony boxers, all parodies of celebrities from the worlds of sports, music and movies who enter the ring as larger-than-life 'Rumble-ized' versions of themselves.

Players will step right up and see if they can knock these super-sized egos down a peg or two! The game is hosted by The Voice of the Champions Michael Buffer, famous for his 'Let’s Get Ready to Rumble' trademark call. Characters are brought to life with hilarious moves, detailed facial animations, damage textures and fighting techniques including special moves, combos, extreme knockdowns and special Rumble combos.

Mar 17, 2009  The famed boxing franchise Ready 2 Rumble returns in 2009 when Atari launches Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution. Whilst maintaining all the humorous caricatures and fun boxing action that made the original Ready 2 Rumble Boxing Round1 and Round2 (Midway) such knock-out best-sellers, the new digitally sophisticated and visually stunning motion-controlled Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution for Wii. There will be a wide variety of characters in the final version, but for now the company let us play with three.

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An all new Championship Mode lets gamers create their own unique boxer and nurture his skills through mini-games, developing him as a fighter and creating a completely personalized Ready 2 Rumble Revolution experience. Developed by AKI who bring their formidable fight game know-how to the franchise, Ready 2 Rumble Revolution brings a virtual boxing arena to the living room and delivers a fun and intuitive experience in either single player or multiplayer mode.

The Wii controllers provide would-be pugilists with an intuitive and realistic feel. Using the Nunchuk controller as one glove and the Wii Remote controller as the other, players dodge, weave and throw the big punches to KO their opponents. Virtual heavyweights can fight from the backstreet gym all the way to the big Las Vegas showdown with vivid new visuals bringing the five spectacular ring environments to life. The arcade experience is made even better thanks to advanced Artificial Intelligence allowing more strategic fights.

Back in the heyday of the SEGA Dreamcast, Midway produced a series of boxing games for the Dreamcast – which then got ported to the other consoles – called Ready 2 Rumble, a play on ring announcer Michael Buffer's trademark line. Over the past few years the franchise has exchanged hands, and now Atari's giving the arcade fighter a shot as a Wii exclusive.

The company let us get an early hands-on with the game before the March release.is a spiritual sequel to the Midway design. You're not going to find the same line-up of characters in the Wii game – sorry, Afro Thunder fans – but the look and feel in Atari's game retains much of the same elements that gave the original game its charm. Fighters are still over the top, borderline un-PC stereotyped caricatures that have crazy punches and taunts, and the game's RUMBLE system could turn a fight around and send a winning boxer to the canvas (or flying out of the ring) in a single overpowered hit. In the Championship Mode, you build a character from the ground up using a simplified creator – as you get deeper in the game you'll unlock different body parts, builds and types, but for newcomers your options are limited. Just like in the previous Ready 2 Rumble games, your character builds up his abilities if you perform well in training, and features a variety of training mini-games that put the players' grasp of the Wii motion controls and their sense of timing to the test. You'll hit the heavy and speed bags, skip rope, and work on the medicine ball in rhythm-style challenges, and if you do well your attributes will rise.

Perform horribly and you'll watch your numbers fall.Check+out+several+minutes+of+direct+feed+video+of+Ready+2+Rumble+Revolution. There will be a wide variety of characters in the final version, but for now the company let us play with three characters: The Impersonator, an aging, career Vegas Elvis imitator; Dragon Chew, a boxer with a Japanese flavor, and Sweet King, a gangsta fighter that'd put Notorious B.I.G's enormous size to shame. Ready 2 Rumble Revolution runs at a very smooth 60 frames per second – which is good considering the original Dreamcast version did the same several years prior. The visuals are a considerable step up from the original game while offering the same exaggerated 'caricature' style for the different boxers in this fighter. Michael Buffer makes an appearance as the game's announcer, but the character designers kept him conservatively 'real' instead of making him over-the-top cartoony. Characters who take a pummeling will show the appropriate damage with bruising and swelling on the face as the fight progresses. Fighters can also change their look during the bout: watch the Elvis impersonator's toupee fly off in a flurry of punches, for example.