T’is standard issue boxing, so nothing too heavy of note here. The question, though, is Fight Night Round 2 really worth your time and cash? Let’s take a look and see… So I guess embodying the ‘sport’ of boxing in a video game could keep this cash cow mooing. Apparently, they do stuff with the National Football League, the Federation Internationale de Football Association (read: FIFA), and other monolithic groups that generate cash from running games in private locales. Sure, EA might have let their Strike franchise die a silent and neglectful death, and kill off the Command and Conquer by liquidating that series’ creative labor, but I hear they churn out a sports line too. But as draconian and cotton plantation-esque their idea of labor may be, it’s that labor cycle that generates games like Fight Night Round 2. That last paragraph, arguably, could easily read as the development cycle at Wal-Mart Digital- I mean, Electronic Arts.

It was the organizers of this event that came away with the bulk of the revenue, while the true stars of the show came away from the ordeal weak and drained. Battered and bruised, the workhorses of the bout would both exit the room, with only the victor garnering a meager wage for himself. Thus, the product of the fight would result in long-lasting damage, both physical and mental, to both it’s participants, as both were no doubt driven by the shortsighted promise of glory and the prize of a fat purse. By taking the savagery of the street fight and placing it on a suspended trampoline wrapped in cords, the organizers hoped to cash in on humanity’s reptilian brain the unconscious side that screamed for the primal satisfaction of just a few minutes of sanctioned violence. Entrepreneurs, who operated as either single persons or collaboratively in syndicates, did their best to recruit the strong and the gullible in an effort to put them against each other in a heinous coupling of rage and adrenalin. Once upon a time, there was a barbaric sport that was enjoyed the small and rich elite of society.