IGN has posted their review of the anticipated Wii game, Punch-Out!!. The game received a 8.8/10, which is great for IGN. I'm actually a bit surprised it didn't get scored a bit higher.

It's hard to find anyone who owned a Nintendo Entertainment System that doesn't have the original Punch-Out!! in their Top Ten. The game is rightfully held in high regard among console gamers because of its intensely challenging and satisfying gameplay. It's also one of the most difficult action games to master because of its dependence on pattern recognition and almost split-second response on the controller. Nintendo's franchise has been in unofficial retirement for nearly 15 years now; that's the last time the publisher wheeled out a version, in this case Super Punch-Out on the Super NES. Two Nintendo consoles have past since then without a true sequel, and while we've been content with releases of the classic games on the Wii's Virtual Console, the idea of a next generation Punch-Out!! has been bouncing around the wishlists of Nintendo fanboys for years. Yours truly included.

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