Rocky Legends

Be Rocky, Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang, or Ivan Drago in this fighting game prequel to the movie series. Using classic Rocky characters, locations, and music, Rocky: Legends puts the player in the boxing, ring recreating or rewriting the careers of the boxing franchise's heroes and villains.

Released: 28 September 2004
Platforms: PlayStation 2 Xbox
Genres: Boxing Fighting Sports
Developers: Venom Games MGM Interactive
Publishers: Ubisoft Entertainment
Series: Rocky
Modes: Multiplayer Single-player Local multiplayer
Perspective: Third person
Themes: Action
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB T PEGI 16
Languages: English, French, German
Directors: John G. Avildsen

About

Rocky Legends is a 2004 fighting video game developed by Venom Games and published by Ubisoft. It is the sequel to the 2002 video game Rocky. The game is based on the Rocky franchise.

The events of the game take place before the films and in between. In the game the player can take control of Rocky Balboa, Apollo Creed, Clubber Lang or Ivan Drago and witness their early careers before their famous encounters.

Keywords

boxing
hand-to-hand combat
based on - movie
licensed game
polygonal 3d
tie-in
xbox 360 backwards compatibility

Media

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Gameplay

Rocky Legends has six different gameplay modes to choose from including Career, Exhibition, Tournament, Survival, Training, and Practice. Players can also use their in-game winnings to buy and unlock extras.

Career mode allows the player to select one of the major characters of the first four Rocky films. Each character has a story of how they rise to the top of the boxing world. They all remain true to the canon of the Rocky films except for Ivan Drago's story, which differs in the match against Rocky Balboa.

Reception

The game was met with average reception upon release. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 73% and 67 out of 100 for the Xbox version, and 69.47% and 65 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version.

Character models and arenas created for this game were adapted for use in the PSP game Rocky Balboa.