*NEW* 2K Prizefighter Article *detailed*

VIDEO UPDATE Nice little interview with a creator including some new snaps. http://www.videogamer.com/videos/player.html?vid=1819 and then the IGN article: We got an early, pre-beta look at Prizefighter last week and came away with one word echoing in our heads: spectaculocity. While there's no true definition to the word that Don King uses to open the introductory cinematic to the game, we can't help but feel that it's an accurate summation for the overall tone of Prizefighter. The core idea behind Prizefighter's career mode – something that was a bit of a bare bones effort in Fight Night Round 3 – is to deliver a documentary-style presentation that gives a retrospective look at a fighter that is supposed to be one of the sport's best. Throughout the 50 bouts that line the career mode you'll see around an hour of documentary footage. You'll hear Ken Norton rattle off a few lines about your tireless tenacity in the ring, Larry Holmes will chime in about your punching power, heck, even ex-girlfriends will show their mugs to talk about your away-from-the-ring shenanigans. From what we could tell the presentation felt authentic and worked well to push the story events forward. Throughout your years in the ring there will be several hills to climb to ensure that your progression to the top continues on a steady course. Before some fights you'll incur injuries like breaking your hand. Your strategy will need to change in the ring to favor one side, something that will also affect how the AI tackles the bout. You'll also need to make decisions to balance the temptations of flashy media events like movie premieres and club openings with training sessions in the Fighter Factory to tune your boxing prowess. The more media functions you attend the better your public perception will be (thus your adrenaline will be higher in the fight) but your stamina will suffer. Training, as it has been in basically every boxing in recent memory, is an important part of fight preparation and the gameplay as a whole. In Prizefighter the training options feature the usual offerings of hitting the speed bag, the standard punching bag and jumping rope; no word on the rest of the training mini-games. It appears that all of the activities take on a rhythm-based gameplay model that is similar to Guitar Hero and Rock Band. Face buttons flow up a stream and need to be hit at a certain time. As you'd expect, progression slows as you advance in your career and the difficulty of each training activity ratchets up.