Black & Bruised is a cartoonish take on boxing with 18 different boxers, each with their own personality and fighting style. There are five different modes including multi-player, exhibition and a story mode told with CG with each boxer's life story is played out in story mode. Each boxer has a different special attack and power-ups can be picked up to use in matches. There are 30 different facial expressions for each boxer reacting to punches and misses giving them a life-like appearance.
FightingSportActionmartial artsboxinghand-to-hand combatNintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
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Unpretentious, spare, resolved and cool.
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Platforms
- Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2
- Developer
- Digital Fiction
- Publisher
- Majesco Entertainment
- Released
- January 26, 2003
- Modes
- Single player, Split screen
- Perspective
- Third person
IGDB rating 4.6/10 from 2 ratings.
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