App Store Editors’ Notes

Amazing game, but with a couple of flaws.

As you progress through the game and unlock new areas. It can take up to 2 hours to charge one condition (energy). This is extremely frustrating simply because this is intended to get people to pay monthly for unlimited energy. I wouldn’t say it’s pay to win, but it gets extremely difficult. Having invested about 5 dollars into the game, has made it very enjoyable. However doing so has only leveled me out with the competition. Honestly this game is amazing, addictive, and deserves 5 stars. However that is only the gameplay, controls, and graphics. Alongside the afore mentioned flaws, is that you must spend diamonds or watch an ad to get up. After being knocked down I have tried everything, and yet the only way to get up is through diamonds. Since you can’t watch an ad with online fights; you will be forced to spend diamonds. The amount the game offers currency wise is fair. But I can’t help but feel the game is money hungry. Which is understandable, but to an extent it can ruin the overall experience. I don’t write reviews ever, but the flaws I mentioned, I felt should be addressed.

(DEVS PLEASE RESPOND) Used To Be Fun.

I returned to this game after a few years of not playing because I saw it on the App Store again. But I noticed it was different. There was no Rocky Balboa related items anymore. I’ve looked online, and in these reviews, for hours to find any information about the Rocky crossover items and why they’re not in the game anymore. It seems that no one else cares, or I’m missing something, but they removed the Rocky Balboa characters, gear, and any branding that relates to Rocky in the game. I’m wondering why this happened, and will it ever come back? It was what made this game fun and I’ve always been a big fan of the Rocky series. I’m assuming their contract just expired or they cut the deal between the franchise and the game. The game just seems like a bland and generic boxing game now with nothing else but random characters, and not to mention the lack of playable characters now without the Rocky ones. I’m assuming it will never come back but I would love to see it again and I know you don’t have much control over it which is why I’m not giving you too bad of a review, but the game is really boring now. Also a lot of random stuff in the game now and it feels like it’s too much, whereas before it was a simple boxing game where I could play as my favorite Rocky characters. Who knows, maybe I’m stupid and I have to do something else to unlock them. But I would love just an answer on this, thanks.

I won’t rate higher until you fix 3 key issues

Dear developers your game is cool and your graphics are amazing, however something that would would be extra cool and amazing would that you NEED TO stop showing all advertisements in the game, I legit cannot scroll 2.5 seconds with there always being some kind of advertisement that I cannot click out of and nobody wants to deal with that kind of thing, + it can be detrimental to gameplay on this game in general. While the gameplay may be buttery smooth, something that isn’t buttery smooth, is yo dodge button issues, especially on iOS because it says you can have it after you complete the dodging tutorial, and when I completed it, I still had to swipe around to dodge the game, and amidst my swiping, I lost? And do you know why? BECAUSE YOUR ADVERTISEMENT PROBLEM IS OUT OF CONTROL. That is something that nobody wants to deal with on this game with All due respect, Themachine. P.S. we still love your game however we would love if this game wasn’t pay to win, because it’s always the in game premium add for this game that almost ruins the fun in general because again every 2.5 seconds in game where it’s the in game gym add or a “new advertisement” for the same game that literally nobody asked for or cares about at all. Again we love your game, you just need to calm down with advertisements and need to do something you say your game says it will do, with all due respect, for real this time, Sh1noBy33

Game really a five start

Hello the only reason I rated it a five star is because for the clothing I’m not rate it for the whole game because it’s an amazing game it’s a five stars off top one of the best mobile game every I really hope we get a part 3 sometime in the future that would be awesome make it more real an tell we can do more that would be awesome with story mode on it but anyways I rated it a 1 star under the inventory because a couple years ago before y’all changed everything I could buy boxing gear an change the colors of the boxing gear an match my own boxing player I use to have my boxing dude on my old phone dressing so awesome all my gear match everytime I dressed him for a fight an now it’s like y’all made it tell we can’t even change the color of our gear can’t make it match now we have to just dress Mitch match on what every gear they have on sale that we can buy I really don’t like this update please change it back to how it use to be so I can dress me boxer how I want to with the matching colors I choose please I would love that but other then that the game amazing an another thing I wish y’all bring back the when we get knocked down we get to try an get our self up I felt like it was more realistic that way instead we have to watch a video or use our diamonds but Anyways if y’all could only change one please change the clothes gear inventory situation please an blessing to u all

😱NO FREAKING FLAWS🔥

[opinion] The only thing slightly wrong with it is that it gets very hard at some points but you can most of the time easily fix that by getting better gear and training such a big selection great graphics and features. [suggestions] I’m not sure if this game is beta alpha or you make a new one every year or just every once in a while but these are just some suggestions if you make updates or make new ones every once in a while but I was the thinking what if you could make your own custom saved fighting combinations that charge up like for an example you wold put in left jab, right jab, left hook, right hook, and it would charge up and you could upgrade it and customize. Something that I thought sounded fun was a mode where it was a group fight where there would be more than two players and you could play in it with friends or like a gladiator mode or something yeah? Yeah? I don’t know?🤷🏼‍♂️ also maybe add a bigger selection of hair and preset faces. Overall great game! Great producers! Great product! Keep up the great work!🔥🔥🔥👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

Ok Overall

I like this game. It is well designed and the actual boxing gameplay is actually pretty fun. My only problem is that it is extremely money hungry. If you get knocked down at any time the only way to get up is through spending diamonds or watching an add, while your appointments can get knocked down 3 times and not get KO’d. To make matters worse, and the thing that really gets me angry, you can get knocked down without your boxer’s health bar even hitting 0. This makes it difficult to have fun because if your health gets anywhere near low, you may have to use diamonds or watch adds to continue. Additionally the stamina system is annoying at times because you only get three fights before having to wait for more stamina, I think it should be at least 5(but probably more). The only other thing I can say, is that the gym games for speed and stamina can be set up better, the jump rope timing bar is right where your fingers would be. And sometimes the speed bag tap locations are out of sight under my fingers as well(this one’s slightly more of a skill issue but still). If these things were fixed or refined, truth be told I’d be on this game for hours. But in its current state it is simply not there yet.

I love the game just some ideas and suggestions

Good game I enjoy almost everything abt it I see where they are going with this but I feel pivots or ducks should be it’s own button and I feel y’all should add a overhand mechanic js for more freedom with combos and make the uppercut more difficult to counter it gets annoying sometimes to deal with desperate players especially when they are low they get to spamming offense n haymakers so id also say work on the counter mechanics too because you shouldn’t be able to always be able to stop my pivot or duck after a body shot or js stun me it’s very annoying when people use it the entire game because it’s almost like u can’t respond back without catching a body shot if you try to counter or catch a haymaker if you want to open up and start a combo the only option is parry for this but i think I would enjoy it more if you can’t always interrupt my weave with a body shot I feel after you’ve perfectly dodged like 1-2 shots you should get a perfect counter like a cooldown basically

Boring gameplay, terrible ads

Every time I want to give this game a chance again I walk away disappointed within hours. The gameplay is so simplistic that it doesn’t feel close to any level of “real” boxing. So much of the defensive and offensive mechanics either don’t make sense or just feel flat out broken at times and even when it does feel like it’s working it doesn’t feel engaging at all. It feels like you spend more time in game doing the gym mini games than actually fighting and only being to do 3 fights before you have to put your phone down and wait an hour or so is obnoxious. Ads plague this game everywhere and you’ll usually be forced to watch a 90 second ad whether you asked for it or not. Every chance this game gets it wants to shove a micro-transaction in your face and the fact that it’s a monthly subscription in order to get unlimited energy instead of a one time payment is ludicrous. I really want to like this game but every time I play it I’m either bored from the boring pacing of the fights or annoyed by the greedy marketing tactics used to try and get any money out of you whenever they can. Can’t recommend this game for anybody and frankly I have no idea how it’s so highly rated unless they’re using bots to boost their score.

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