Mike Tyson Boxing

Mike Tyson Boxing, known in the UK as Prince Naseem Boxing, is a video game developed and published by Codemasters for PlayStation in 2000, and developed by Virtucraft and published by Ubi Soft for Game Boy Advance in 2002.

Mike Tyson Boxing
Developer(s)	Codemasters (PS) Virtucraft (GBA)
Publisher(s)	Codemasters (PS) Ubi Soft (GBA)
Platform(s)	PlayStation, Game Boy Advance
Release	PlayStation NA: 31 October 2000[1] EU: 3 November 2000 Game Boy Advance EU: 1 March 2002 NA: 6 March 2002
Genre(s)	Sports, fighting
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Reception

Reception

Aggregate score

Aggregator	Score
	GBA	PS
Metacritic	44/100[2]	44/100[3]

Review scores

Publication	Score
	GBA	PS
AllGame	[4]	N/A
Edge	N/A	3/10[5]
Electronic Gaming Monthly	N/A	5.33/10[6][a]
EP Daily	N/A	3/10[7]
Eurogamer	N/A	5/10[8]
Game Informer	5/10[9]	5/10[10]
GameSpot	3.3/10[11]	3/10[12]
GameZone	3.8/10[13]	N/A
IGN	4.8/10[14]	4.3/10[15]
Next Generation	N/A	[16]
Nintendo Power	2.6/5[17]	N/A
Official U.S. PlayStation Magazine	N/A	[18]
X-Play	N/A	[19]
Maxim	N/A	[20]

The game received "unfavorable" reviews on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[2][3] Doug Trueman of NextGen said of the PlayStation version, "Although Mike Tyson's reputation would be hard pressed to get any lower, this game manages to do just that."^[16] Maxim gave the same console version a negative review, over a week before the game was released Stateside.^[20]

Notes

1. Three critics of Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the PlayStation version each a score of 5.5/10, 4.5/10, and 6/10.