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Boxing Manager II
D&H £9.99 Apr 1990 YS52
Life Expectancy: 70 
Instant Appeal: 66 
Graphics: 54 
Addictiveness: 60 
Overall: 65°  
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Hardly the most accurate management sim, but with enough atmosphere and playability to keep you happy.
Marcus Berkmann
This update of last years rather dreary Boxing Manager I adds a spanking new graphic element in that, yes, you do actually fight. This will probably be bad news for anyone who doesn't care for actually fighting, but then anyone who is down on violence is hardly going to be buying a boxing game, are they?. Still, it's all here, in the usual D&H style. You can go for the WBC Championship, for the WBA (What've West Bromwich Albion got to do with this? Ed) or even the IBF. You can fix a fight, take a dive, even do TV interviews (although not, sadly, with 'Arry). I am perhaps less drawn to the idea of this one than the other two (which my have been why I left it 'til last), but it's a well-proportioned game nonetheless, with probably little, if any, regard for accuracy. Still, there's a strong sense of atmosphere, even if no-one ever seems to be pummelled a la Mike Tyson and put in hospital (now there's realism!). Rampant pugilists should lap it up.


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