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…
Rocky Legends is a fighting developed by MGM Interactive, released 28 September 2004 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
What Rocky Legends is
Rocky Legends is a fighting game developed by MGM Interactive and released in 2004. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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. Play the career mode or jump into a 1-2 player slugfest. As you progress through the career mode, you must train to improve your skills just like a professional would, and use your fight purse to unlock more playable characters, arenas, movie trailers and more. Combinations of punches can be executed powerfully.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Rocky series
Rocky Legends is the fourth of 5 entries we hold in the Rocky series. It arrived 2 years after Rocky. The next entry was Creed: Rise to Glory in 2018. Its critic score of 70 is 5 points below the series average of 75. The highest-rated entry is Rocky at 80.
How it was received
Rocky Legends holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2004 averaged 70, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Rocky Legends launched on 28 September 2004, within three weeks of Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable and Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Counter-Strike: Source, Rome: Total War, Fable, Pokémon Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald.
Official trailer
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