• 2 months ago
Golden Gloves FIRST IMPRESSIONS on Quest 3

Play, train and compete with Golden Gloves VR. Building on 100 years of history, we’re proud to bring the most recognizable brand in boxing into the digital world. Train like a fighter in our virtual gym, as you immerse yourself in the most realistic boxing experience you’ll find outside of a brick and mortar facility. Starting as a novice boxer, you’ll follow a career path, working your way through the ranks to become a Golden Gloves Champion.

Developed by Engine Room VR, a gaming company owned and operated by a licensed and certified boxing coach, promoter, and gym owner, Golden Gloves VR is designed to create a realistic boxing experience. Learn the fight styles and personalities of each of your opponents as you advance through the ranks, perfecting your own boxing skills. Train for competition, using our state-of-the art boxing equipment, with physics that perfectly mimic the real world experience. Enhance your virtual training with our online support.
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00:00Now lately I've been on the search for a good boxing game and somebody
00:16recommended this one to me. This is Golden Gloves by Engine Room VR LLC and
00:22it was released on the 14th of October 2022. Now what I will say about this game
00:28is you are going to need space. They are pretty upfront on their page about that
00:33and seem to be quite ignorant to the fact that not everyone has a big play
00:38space. So there are no controls to move around via the ring, no stick movement.
00:43You have to physically move. For me personally this is no good. So I found
00:48myself limited by movement and had to wait for the opponent to come into my
00:52reach most of the time. I do like the visuals of the gym and all the fight
00:57locations though I'm not sure about the back alley type boxing ring. It feels a
01:01little out of place but I like the cartoony feel. The audience looks like a
01:06crowd of dressed up crash test dummies but I guess they don't need to have that
01:11much detail to them. There are currently four opponents to fight. Frankie the
01:16Beast Bennett, Mighty Mike Munson, Sam Too Slick Avery and the Miguel the
01:22Mangala Morales. But I would love for the creators to spend some more time on each
01:27fighter and making them look a little bit better. They look okay now but that's
01:32precisely it. It's just okay. They should look like that they have their own
01:36personalities. So then there's a choice of five boxing locations. The first bout,
01:42back to school, back alley brawl, street fight and Las Vegas arena. There's also a
01:49choice of two gyms. The engine room gym and the USA Boxing Colorado. The gyms are
01:55well kitted out with all the usual stuff you'd expect. There's a punch cube
01:59that will tell you damage info when you throw a punch. There's also a Simon Says
02:04game. If you're not familiar you just copy the light sequence. Each time you
02:09get it correct it adds one more light to remember. Then there's like a mitt work
02:14type game called Fists of Fury where you will stand in the corner of the ring and
02:18then mitts will fly towards you from the other side of the ring that you have to
02:23punch or dodge. Each one will be marked with L for left R for right. I really
02:28enjoyed this particular type in training. That by itself feels like a good game.
02:33Then there's the punch bags, speedball and all of these have settings that you
02:38can adjust like their heights or you can adjust the weight of the bags. Also on
02:42the wall there is a menu to select round length, break time length in between
02:47rounds and there is also a fitness tracker for burning off calories. And then
02:51finally there is an arcade machine Space Invaders which is pretty unique
02:56and quite fun. You shoot gloves into mitts that are going from left to right
03:01to left continuously. Now when I first played this game the boxes seemed easy
03:06to beat and then I didn't play it for about two months. So when I came back on
03:11to refresh my memory for writing this review the boxes seemed to have become
03:16impossible to beat. But mess around with those settings and all should be fine. I
03:20don't really understand how the damage works. There are no meters or visuals to
03:25show you any damage until the fight is over and then it shows you the scorecard.
03:29Now there is a custom setting menu. There are a few settings you can tweak for
03:34more or less damage, more health, speed, a faster heal, retaliation chance and block
03:41slip ratio. Just play around with these if you find your opponents too tough. It
03:46would also be nice if they used names for each boxer and your name instead of
03:50just red and blue. Now this game does offer pass-through mode which is pretty
03:55good. Means you can see how close you are to any walls or people so you don't end
04:00up punching them. There is also a multiplayer and beta where I guess you
04:05invite your friends to play via an invite code. Again this is just another
04:09boxing game where you have a few opponents to fight, a training area but
04:14there's no league, no championship to win. Even though they claim starting as a
04:19novice boxer you'll follow a career path working your way through the ranks to
04:24become a Golden Gloves champion. But just maybe they haven't got around to this
04:28part yet. So whatever it is you are looking for from your boxing game this
04:32is definitely one to keep your eyes on but it might be worth waiting to see
04:36where it is in another 6 to 12 months. Now please show me some support by
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04:44subscribe and let's support one another in our gaming experiences. Thanks guys
04:48and happy gaming!