Rocky Legends

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Rocky Legends
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Developer(s) Venom Games
Publisher(s) Ubisoft [lower-alpha 1]
Platform(s) PlayStation 2
Xbox
Release
  • NA: September 28, 2004
  • PAL: October 7, 2004 [1]
Genre(s) Fighting
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

Rocky Legends is a 2004 fighting video game developed by Venom Games and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to the 2002 video game Rocky . The game is based on the Rocky franchise.

Contents

The events of the game take place before the films and in between. In the game the player can take control of Rocky Balboa, Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang or Ivan Drago and witness their early careers before their famous encounters.

Gameplay

Rocky Legends has six different gameplay modes to choose from including Career, Exhibition, Tournament, Survival, Training, and Practice. Players can also use their in-game winnings to buy and unlock extras.

Career

Career mode allows the player to select one of the major characters of the first four Rocky films. Each character has a story of how they rise to the top of the boxing world. They all remain true to the canon of the Rocky films except for Ivan Drago's story, which differs in the match against Rocky Balboa.

Training

A training mode is included in Rocky Legends. Training can be done in freeplay or career. While training in career mode awards the player points to upgrade their character based on how well they trained. This gives the player a chance to change how the stars of Rocky fought as the player is allowed to decide which stats to raise. Training in freeplay can be done both alone and with another player competitively, however this has no effect on the character's stats.

Reception

The game was met with average reception upon release. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 73% and 67 out of 100 for the Xbox version, [2] [4] and 69.47% and 65 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version. [3] [5]

Character models and arenas created for this game were adapted for use in the PSP game Rocky Balboa .

Notes

  1. ↑ Released under the Ubisoft brand name and co-published by MGM Interactive.

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