Mike Tyson Boxing

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Mike Tyson Boxing
Mike Tyson Boxing cover.jpg
Developer(s) Codemasters (PS)
Virtucraft (GBA)
Publisher(s) Codemasters (PS)
Ubi Soft (GBA)
Platform(s) PlayStation, Game Boy Advance
ReleasePlayStation
  • NA: 31 October 2000 [1]
  • EU: 3 November 2000
Game Boy Advance
  • EU: 1 March 2002
  • NA: 6 March 2002
Genre(s) Sports, fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Mike Tyson Boxing, known in the UK as Prince Naseem Boxing, is a video game developed and published by Codemasters for PlayStation in 2000, and developed by Virtucraft and published by Ubi Soft for Game Boy Advance in 2002.

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Reception

The game received "unfavorable" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. [2] [3] Doug Trueman of NextGen said of the PlayStation version, "Although Mike Tyson's reputation would be hard pressed to get any lower, this game manages to do just that." [16] Maxim gave the same console version a negative review, over a week before the game was released Stateside. [20]

Notes

  1. Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version each a score of 5.5/10, 4.5/10, and 6/10.

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