Punch-out is Nintendo’s latest attempt to appeal to the game-hungry hardcore fans that have followed the brand since the NES days. But will this game live up to the wishes of those rose-tinted-spec wearing gamers? Maybe.

The game uses the same perspective as the hit NES boxing games of the same franchise. This is good in concept, but could present a few problems in the gameplay front – as games and the people that play them have moved along in the past 22 years.

However, fortunately, the game may differentiate from the original games through usage of two control schemes. One of which is a so called “Classic Control” scheme, and one of which uses the motion functionality. While at first I was glad to hear this, normally one of the control schemes in games that feature two schemes sucks really badly (see motion control in Motorstorm).

I hope that isn’t the case here however as this game could just be a sleeper hit of 09’ if the developers don’t rely too much on nostalgia and focus more on effective, modern, but still classic gameplay.

Matt

Labels: Matthew, Matthew Meadows, Month of Hype, Punchout

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