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Rocky

Based on the famous movie series of the same name about good boxer Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester Stallone). The boxing simulator game has several modes, including Movie Mode, Exhibition and Knockout…

80 18 October 2002

Rocky is a fighting developed by MGM Interactive, released 18 October 2002 on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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What Rocky is

Rocky is a fighting game developed by MGM Interactive and released in 2002. It was published by Rage Software. It is available on Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Rocky Balboa is a 2007 video game based on the movie of the same name for the PlayStation Portable, which is similar in style and content to Rocky Legends. The game includes footage from each Rocky film, showing the buildup to the major fights of the film series. There are also some flashback videos of the training footage from the films. It is also the last video game released by MGM Interactive before the company became defunct in late 2007.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. 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 is the third of 5 entries we hold in the Rocky series. It arrived 15 years after Rocky. The next entry was Rocky Legends in 2004. Its critic score of 80 is 5 points above the series average of 75. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.

See all 5 Rocky games in release order →

How it was received

Rocky holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 12 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Rocky launched on 18 October 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology and Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4.

Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, TimeSplitters 2, Age of Mythology, Hitman 2: Silent Assassin.

Cheats and codes

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When did Rocky come out?
Rocky was released on 18 October 2002 for Nintendo GameCube, PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

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