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Introducing Punch-Out!! Wii's Giga Mac, he will break you photo

If burying your drill in things or shooting Helghast aren't your things, don't worry -- GameTrailers TV had you covered last night. 

Geoff Keighley and company also revealed a brand new extended trailer for Punch-Out!!, which is coming to Wii this May. Clocking in a nearly two minutes, there's quite a lot of gameplay to be seen, along with a slew of characters both new and old. But the "big news"? Giga Mac, a character available in the game's versus mode that once activated becomes a big, monster version of himself. Think the Incredible Hulk, only with boxing gloves. 

I'm not entirely sold on two-player Punch-Out!!, and Giga Mac sounds like some bizarre fish/meat combo burger I'd be able to eat at a Japanese McDonalds. But I loved how familiar Punch-Out!! felt when I played it at GDC, and I can't wait to play more of it. Check out the new trailer after the jump. 


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sleepingagain's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:07
sleepingagain
that looks like that will get old... FAST
zombiekiller13's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:14
zombiekiller13
Hmmm...so Giga-Mac is only available in 2-player mode? I can live with that.
megaStryke's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:15
megaStryke
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat.
eskimo bob's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:17
eskimo bob
unfortunately I have to agree with sleepingagain. that doesn't mean I won't buy it at launch, but...
The-Excel's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:22
The-Excel
Extra boss?
eggz's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:52
eggz
lol giga mac :)
thats pretty awesome
Askherserenity's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 09:57
Askherserenity
It looks great. It reminds me of Mario Strikers when you have to block the super shots for some reason.
mwuest's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 10:01
mwuest
this game can't possibly last more than an hour. ah, the nostalgia though!
atastysammich's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 10:10
atastysammich
Yikes. I didn't know there was a two-player mode, and I wish I still didn't know.

@Askherserenity
You mean it reminds you of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! when you have to block the super shots.
Gen Eric Gui's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 10:23
Gen Eric Gui
Wait...how...huh? How exactly would a 2P mode work in Punch Out? The whole game is reading the AI's tells and reacting to them. You can't do that in 2P mode, really. I'm expecting this to be broken as hell and not fun at all.
Chronic Logic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 10:33
Chronic Logic
So, it's a beefed up gorilla-ized Little Mac? Bring back Tyson!
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 10:45
Monodi
Wait so this guy will be instead the SNES version of Little Mac?

Umm allrighty, this reminds me a bit of The Guy from IWBTG.
GigaMach's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 10:46
GigaMach
Giga Mac!!! Stolen!
Monodi's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 11:13
Monodi
Well this also teases us that head-to-head will have a wide roster of characters probably including Super Macho Man, King Hippo and (God, I so hope) Dragon Chan.
flamecondor's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 11:38
flamecondor
Maybe its just that I never grew up on Punch Out on the NES, but I'm still not feeling it with this game. I think I'll be fine with Super Punch Out on the VC should I feel the need to play some Punchout.
Analitic's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 11:58
Analitic
i giga mac for all the Wii naysayers.
Artemus's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 13:01
Artemus
Giga Mac. Creepy.
I grew up playing Mike Tyson's Punch Out!!, it was one of the first games I remember getting!! I played tha hell outta that game!! Tyson was one of the first video game "bosses" that really scared me!!
I am very much looking forward to this!! Yeah!!
And the two player mode looks like a nice touch...
Love the music, look and feel of the game, so far.
It's full of retro goodness!! =)
Mr Jonson's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 13:18
Mr Jonson
the character animations look pretty awesome
NihonTiger90's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 14:17
NihonTiger90
Interesting, to say the least. Hopefully it won't be too broken.
Occams electric toothbrush's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 18:13
Occams electric toothbrush
For anyone who played and loved the original, this game is just awesome. I'll give the multi-player bits a shot but I'm really in it for the single player fights. Also, really hope I can turn off that red flash before the fighters attack you cause I don't want/need that obvious a visual cue. I'll keep it old school and look for the flashing gem/wink and work my way to victory.
YEAH-YA's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/10/2009 21:45
YEAH-YA
what!? triiiip!!!
Naim Master's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/11/2009 00:46
Naim Master
MP Punch Out just sounds bad ...
bleep's Avatar - Comment posted on 04/11/2009 06:06
bleep
Hmm might be fun, though the music has a little too much "horns" in it for my taste
CheapXboxGameorg's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/21/2009 08:22
CheapXboxGameorg
Punch out looks good. hope it will be great when playing the actual game.
WiiChronicles's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/21/2009 08:35
WiiChronicles
thanks for posting this. i already thinking of getting a copy of Punch Out
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