Undisputed Review

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Boxing games and the sport itself were once a big part of my life. Fight Night Round 3, Round 4, and Champion, and even Ready to Rumble Boxing were games that I spent hours playing. I even joined a local boxing gym for a time too, training every week and managed to win a trophy. However, much as it has in my personal life, boxing has all but disappeared in the gaming scene, with boxers being special characters in other fighting games instead. Stepping into this empty ring is Steel City Interactive, whose mission is to bring boxing games back with Undisputed.

Undisputed has a number of different modes including career, quick fights, and prize fights. There is also online which has quick fights and ranked fights, though the single player was the main focus for this review as I was not able to find any matches online before launch.

What’s most important throughout is that Undisputed’s gameplay has a lot of depth to it and that it captures the fundamentals of what boxing is. This is not a sport where you just keeping throwing punches hoping for the best and Undisputed teaches you the need to strategise, work to your strengths, expose your opponent’s weaknesses, have patience, and keep your guard up because a single punch can turn the tide. Every fighter has a lot of attributes and fighting styles, such as Slugger and Swarmers. There’s attributes for every aspect of a boxer including the power of jabs, hooks, uppercuts, straights, and power punches. Then you have stats for movement speed, stamina, endurance, block strength, head health, body health, and a whole lot more. Every single one of these measurements is noticeable in each boxer, with lower rated boxers feeling sluggish compared to higher rated boxers.

This will be most obvious when you start career mode, where you can choose to create your own fighter or pick a fighter from the roster. The roster itself features a number of big name boxers from across the ages, along with other real life boxers. There are some