Reviews

As Sinclair Randomseek brought Boxing Manager 2 to my attention I felt I ought to look at the first Boxing Manager game first, though in all honesty whether they are actually tied to a series your guess is as good as mine. Guide your boxer to the top "before he suffers brain damage", already we can see what we're faced with here can't we? It's pretty basic and just evolves you managing a boxer and not exactly playing it, but it's a million times better than most football manager games and I was able to have a bit of fun with this. The one problem I have with this is they don't give you enough money at the start and you don't earn a lot of money throughout the game so buying a gym will be hard work, this makes fighting more difficult opponents a more tough task than it already is. Interestingly the Cult Games version, while technically the same game, is re-coded to suit their look and style, as if it had been stolen and re-programmed without the original author's knowledge which clearly even though he is credited for it, so it's more a "almost equal to" rather than the exact same game. Anyway, this is pretty good, streets ahead of the vast majority of football manager games.