Contender

Contender (1998)

by Victor Interactive Software, Sony Computer Entertainment
Genres:Sport, Fighting
Game modes:Single player
Story:A boxing game that straddles the line between arcade and sim. Known as Victory Boxing 2 in Europe, Contender was the first title in the series to be released outside of Europe.
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Contender, also known as Victory Boxing 2 in Europe, and as Dinamity Boxing in Japan (the ver. I played), is a 3D fighting game with colorful graphics and a fun hoster of playable characters and opponents. At least in the jap ver. Each version has a few changes in the characters, menus and such, and would be great to modernize the ctrls a bit and mix these unique features of each ver. I loved how you could create your own move set and the climb in the story mode. Plus the cutscenes were top notch for the time.
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