Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution (Wii)

READY 2 RUMBLE: REVOLUTION is Atari's attempt to revive a Midway boxing series, one which didn't understand the difference between hurtful racial stereotypes and honest satire. In career mode, you choose one of about a dozen fighters, some of whom look like Brad Pitt or Jack Black, to rise among the ranks to become the top boxer.

Using the Wii Remote and the nunchuk, you are supposed to be able to pull off a variety of moves from jabs to uppercuts to roundhouse punches for offense. For defense, you are able to block, bob and weave. In addition, there are some mini games which require precise target punching to complete.

There is really very little to commend the game, unless you simply want to brawl. If you have a love for old arcade games like Punch Out, which approximates the sweet science of boxing and adds humor to the escapade, you'll be disappointed. If you love more simulation-like representations of fisticuffs like the recent Fight Night series, you'll go from disappointment to despair because the controls are rarely accurate. You end up flailing around a lot. Heck, the simple Wii Sports Boxing is more exact than this.

If you're at all sensitive about bigotry in games, Ready 2 Rumble: Revolution will raise some red flags. One African American character's mother had 18 children. Another character looks like a pimp out of grade D movie. This isn't funny: it's degrading. Plus, the so-called parodies of Jack Black as a kind of spoiled child and Brad Pitt circa Fight Club will cause some to raise eyebrows. Unfortunately, this boxing game is a debacle rife with bad taste at the least and racism at the worst.