{"id":12918,"date":"2002-11-10T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-10T12:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2021-05-15T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T12:17:04","slug":"rocky-game-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2002\/11\/10\/rocky-game-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Game Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2002\/nov\/111102game.jpg?resize=156%2C112\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"112\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the November 15, 2002\u00a0<em>Video Games<\/em>\u00a0column of\u00a0<strong>Entertainment Weekly\u00a0<\/strong>the following review appears:<\/p>\n<p><strong>ROCKY *\u00a0<\/strong> (All; Ubi Soft; Teen) Yo, Adrian! This boxing extravaganza includes characters from all five\u00a0<strong>Rocky<\/strong>\u00a0films, and let&#8217;s you (playing as the Italian Stallion) go toe-to-toe with\u00a0<strong>Apollo Creed<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Clubber Lang<\/strong>, and Cold War pugilist<strong>\u00a0Ivan Drago<\/strong>. Between fights, crusty old\u00a0<strong>Mickey<\/strong>\u00a0trains you on the speed bag while the\u00a0<strong>Rocky<\/strong>\u00a0orchestra&#8217;s &#8220;<em>Gonna Fly Now<\/em>&#8221; swells in the background (&#8220;<em>Eye of the Tiger&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>is sorely missing from the soundtrack.) The cut scenes faithfully reenact key plot points from the movies, and the in-fight taunts are delivered verbatim from the films. But we have to deduct points for the game&#8217;s flaccid fighting engine, which looks awfully similar t\u00a0<strong>Ready 2 Rumble Boxing<\/strong>\u00a0and becomes repetitive after about three bouts.\u00a0<strong>Rocky<\/strong>\u00a0throws a lot of punches but, unfortunately, rarely connects.<strong>\u00a0B-\/<\/strong>\u00a0-NR-<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Craig Zablo<\/strong><br \/>\n[November 10, 2002]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the November 15, 2002\u00a0Video Games\u00a0column of\u00a0Entertainment Weekly\u00a0the following review appears: ROCKY *\u00a0 (All; Ubi Soft; Teen) Yo, Adrian! This boxing extravaganza includes characters from all five\u00a0Rocky\u00a0films, and let&#8217;s you (playing as the Italian Stallion) go toe-to-toe with\u00a0Apollo Creed,\u00a0Clubber Lang, and Cold War pugilist\u00a0Ivan Drago. Between fights, crusty old\u00a0Mickey\u00a0trains you on the speed bag while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,9,13,43,55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-74","category-rocky","category-rocky-2","category-rocky-3","category-rocky-4","category-rocky-5"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3mm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12919,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12918\/revisions\/12919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}