Punch-Out!! (Wii)
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North American boxart featuring Little Mac in the foreground, with Glass Joe, Von Kaiser, King Hippo and Disco Kid in the background.
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| Developer(s) | Next Level Games |
| Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
| Director(s) | Jason Carr Mike Inglehart |
| Producer(s) | Jared Johnson Ken Yeeloy Kensuke Tanabe |
| Designer(s) | Jamie Ip Matt McTavish |
| Artist(s) | Eddie Visser |
| Writer(s) | Naoki Mori |
| Composer(s) | Mike Peacock Darren Radtke Chad York |
| Platform(s) | Wii |
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| Genre(s) | Boxing, fighting, sports |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, Two-player, Multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 87% |
| Metacritic | 86/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Game Informer | 9/10 |
| IGN | 8.8/10 |
| Nintendo Power | 8.5/10 |
Punch-Out!! is a boxing video game developed by Next Level Games for the Wii and is the fifth main game in Nintendo's Punch-Out!! series following the Super NES version of Super Punch-Out!!.
Following an early release at the Nintendo World Store in New York City on May 16, 2009, the game was released on May 18, 2009 in North America, on May 22, 2009 in Europe, on July 23, 2009 in Japan, and on August 27, 2009 in Australia (exclusively at JB Hi-Fi stores). An additional WiiWare title, Doc Louis's Punch-Out!!, was released exclusively for North American Club Nintendo members on October 27, 2009. It was rebranded under the Nintendo Selects label in 2011 for North American audiences only.
In the January 2015 Nintendo Direct, it was announced that Punch-Out!! and other Wii games would be released for download through the Wii U's Nintendo eShop. Punch-Out!! was released in North America on January 22, 2015, in Europe on March 12, 2015, in Australia and New Zealand on March 13, 2015, and was released in Japan on June 24, 2015.
Punch-Out!! features a boxer named Little Mac working his way up the professional boxing circuits, facing a series of colorful, fictional boxers. The game requires reflexes in reaction to the computer-controlled boxers' moves. Aside from a few new opponents, every other opponent is from a previous Punch-Out!! game. New opponents feature Disco Kid, Giga Mac and Donkey Kong, while the classic boxers are ten of the eleven boxers from the original game, as well as two from Super Punch-Out!!. The game allows three different control schemes. The Wii Remote and Nunchuk can be used together, a Wii Balance Board can be used along with Wii Remote and Nunchuk to duck or dodge, or the Wii Remote can be used by itself and held sideways in a traditional two-button control scheme.
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