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Today’s Beast Game Idea: Beast Boxing Turbo
By Jim Rossignol on September 27th, 2012 at 2:00 pm.
I’ve always said that the PC needs more first-person boxing games, and so I must extend my gratitude to Good Hustle, developers Beast Boxing Turbo. It’s not hard to guess where they take the game: you box lizards, you box trolls, you box skeletons, you box demons – all in a lovely hand-drawn art style. It’s just about beasts getting a thump up the bracket, basically. And they look good while they’re doing it. I am not sure how “turbo” relates to it, but I am guessing it’s one of those suffixes that are automatically added to games dependent on genre, without any real reason.
Anyway, you’re probably definitely going to want to see skeletons get punched with bright-red boxing gloves, so there’s a video below for that. The game will be released “soon”.
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Beast Boxing Turbo, Good Hustle.
31 Comments »
27/09/2012 at 14:02 zebramatt says:
Finally, a proper reason to plug my Dual X Arcade into my PC!
27/09/2012 at 14:07 Alextended says:
Looks like Punch Out!! x Wii Sports Boxing only worse.
27/09/2012 at 14:11 Vagrant says:
WANT.
27/09/2012 at 17:04 MikoSquiz says:
DAY 1 BUY YES YES
27/09/2012 at 14:16 The Random One says:
As someone who hates fantasy I can say that looks quite interesting.
I wish more devs were willing to think outside the box like this.
27/09/2012 at 14:19 Ian says:
Spar us your boxing puns.
27/09/2012 at 14:23 MOKKA says:
I think his was just a lucky punch.
27/09/2012 at 14:28 SocraticIrony says:
I can’t wait to get hooked on this.
27/09/2012 at 14:40 markb10101 says:
You don’t need to canvas opinions; these puns are definitely ropey.
27/09/2012 at 15:07 Hunchback says:
You shouldn’t jab at people like that…
27/09/2012 at 16:27 Lord Custard Smingleigh says:
You shouldn’t have let your guard down.
27/09/2012 at 19:17 mr.black says:
Great puns, now kick it to the higher weight class!
27/09/2012 at 14:26 Mr. Mister says:
Is there any first person boxer where you use two mice?
27/09/2012 at 14:36 markb10101 says:
What… as… gloves? Sicko!
28/09/2012 at 03:37 Sinomatic says:
This is GENIUS.
I was just thinking that it would seem quite unsatisfying to play a game like this just clicking away at the mouse buttons….But two mice = move the arms? That makes it sound not just playable, but stupidly fun.
Why *aren’t* there any games that use two mice? Why is that not a thing? (Maybe there are and I just don’t know it?)
27/09/2012 at 14:39 fallingmagpie says:
Shame that at 17s when you get knocked out, the viewpoint doesn’t fall backwards when the arms do. Maybe they can still fix that. Looks fun tho!
27/09/2012 at 14:47 Sparkasaurusmex says:
Would be awesome with Windows Kinect
27/09/2012 at 15:05 danimalkingdom says:
Ahem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHKnU-YkOE4
But seriously, I love the art style. A much better illustrated look than Borderlands’, which is kinda fugly.
27/09/2012 at 15:10 Hunchback says:
What happened with proper sci-fi movies anyways?
Last thing i saw, that was plausible, was Prometheus, and that’s the first since… forever. :S
27/09/2012 at 15:13 Lemming says:
How is it I’ve never heard of this? :O
27/09/2012 at 17:52 YogSo says:
In my case, the name Arena didn’t ring any bells, but as soon as I’ve seen ‘Lt. Commander Ivanova’ in there, it has all come to me. Funnily enough, I hadn’t really forgotten about this movie, but for some reason my memories of it had been mixed with Robot Jox, which, sure enough, is listed on the related videos column as well.
27/09/2012 at 16:49 arccos says:
Looks like I found tonight’s viewing! Thanks!
27/09/2012 at 15:10 squareking says:
Ah nice, a Super Punch Out!!-alike. Looks like an Ace Team joint.
27/09/2012 at 15:11 Lemming says:
Anyone else find it a bit weird that it’s normal boxing gloves in this spikey, monster-filled world and not big spikey gauntlets? Bit strange, IMO.
27/09/2012 at 15:13 Hunchback says:
If you consider “flaming” to be “normal”, i guess…
27/09/2012 at 15:21 Lemming says:
I was just looking at the screen shot. The Bright red boxing gloves. Surely this should be spikey knuckle fist-fighting?
27/09/2012 at 17:12 goodhustle says:
Hey, I’m the dev – more glove variations are available in the new gear system, which I added in since working on this video last month. No spikes! But there’s cool stuff in there nonetheless.
27/09/2012 at 15:15 jmexio says:
“(…) monsters fight for fame and fortune. You are the first human to try.” I am guessing the protagonist tricked the dumb troll in charge of registration by showing him those green arms. ^_^
27/09/2012 at 17:49 TsunamiWombat says:
I just had massive flashbacks to Power Punch 2, the Psuedo Sequel to Punch Out!! on the NES
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Punch_II
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCpxQPyoThk