14 DAY TRIAL // Kalypso media has just announced Universal Boxing Manager, its latest boxing management sim. The game will be released for PC this September, being priced ?9.99. Pity it's a PC-only title. Wait till you read what the rest of the report says.
Starting as a lowly hopeful, players are tasked with managing up to six different budding champs with high hopes of glory. As an eagle-eyed trainer, it's your job to sort the Ricky Hattons from the Ricky Gervais, buff them up in the gym, broker the right fights against the right opponents and reap the juicy financial rewards. Just as any good manager would offer, it's also your job to play Mr. Motivator and power talk your charges to victory, or give them the hair dryer treatment should things go decidedly the way of Bruno vs. Tyson.
Easily accessible to even the most modest gamers, Universal Boxing Manager is a pick-up-and-play insight into the world of the boxing promoter, the perfect game to wile away a lunchtime. Alternatively, gamers looking for a bit more depth can tackle the career mode, and take responsibility for buying new equipment, hiring better medical staff and trawling through the 17 different weight classes to pick a champ or two from the roster of over a thousand unique boxers.
All fights can be watched in real time in an overhead view of the ring, with options to concentrate on healing or motivate your boxer between rounds, as well as advise him on tactics and where to expose his opponent's weaknesses.
Gamers will be bringing out the Don King in them, from heavy to featherweight, when Universal Boxing Manager will bring out a little launching this Autumn. Remember: the game is being published by Kalypso media, for the PC platform, retailing for no more, no less than 9.99 Pounds.