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Punched Out achievement in Kinect Sports Rivals

Punched Out

Punch out 4 shots at goal in a Soccer event.

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How to unlock the Punched Out achievement

  • JeffMommJeffMomm
    19 Sep 2014 19 Sep 2014 19 Sep 2014
    My solution is a twist on "Shanevolution" and "GuitarSLAY3R's". I found this on xboxachievements.com (thanks "DOA hed" and "Baihu1983") and added my own experience. So, this is definitely a community solution. :-)

    1. Play with a buddy online and try to keep the score 0-0, or at least tied before time runs out. This way you can go indefinitely.
    2. Play the "Hard" level (the one with the red in the meter) as there are 2 strikers (right term?) and one of them is usually a header, which is usually the person on the left.
    3. On offense, try to keep the ball to the left and end up passing to the guy who does headers.
    4. As the ball is in the air, hop up and down so the ball has a better chance of arriving at the goalie's shoulders instead of knees. If you're good at timing it, you may not need to hop like an idiot like I did. lol
    5. Now, on the goalie side, as the ball is traveling toward the striker, put both arms out in front, a little more that shoulder width apart. I looked like I was holding the handlebars in wake racing.
    6. just as the striker heads the ball, do a slow, forward lunge keeping your arms out in front. (Basically take a 3-4 foot step forward with one leg and bend your knees. If you remember the Friends episode where Joey was wearing all of Chandler's clothes and he was sweaty and doing lunges, it looks like that.) Found a link:
    7. Once you get the timing right, this works pretty well. It took a couple games to get the timing in step 6, but once I did, I had 4 punches out of 5 attempts. Once I taught my buddy, he had 4 in a row.

    I apologize in advance for my weak definition of a lunge. :-) lol

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    DogmaticTulip78Can someone who has learnt the technique help me online with this? I rarely get the super save animation, which seems to be what I'm lacking.... Help...pls?
    Posted by DogmaticTulip78 On 24 Jul 19 at 01:42
    Firstmate FizzI just popped this today in a rivals event, I think this solution works better if you only stick the arm that's making the save out, and leave your other arm by your side.

    My advice is to get your level in soccer to 15. Once that is done make an alt account (if you don't have one already) and pop in Rivals and make an avatar. Make sure your alt and your main are friends on XBL. Make sure your alt never touches soccer so their level in soccer is 0.
    Challenge your rival to a soccer match and there shots will be super slow, leaving you plenty of time to figure out how to lung/save.
    Posted by Firstmate Fizz On 01 Feb 21 at 17:15
    LeiChatThe Rivals Hub no longer appears to be working. :(
    Posted by LeiChat On 21 Jul 21 at 12:19
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  • ShaneanigensShaneanigens
    10 Jun 2014 10 Jun 2014 10 Jun 2014
    This solution is similar to GuitarSLAY3R's.

    What you want to do is grab a friend and do this online. You want to extend both arms out straight at the kinect, and keep them close together while punching continuously in unison. 4/5 times you will punch out the ball. To know if you successfully punched it, it will go zipping across the screen to the last player infront of the opponents goal for you to kick/headbutt in. This is also a good way to get the headbutt goals done as 50% of the time it gives you the option to headbutt the ball.

    This achievement is GLITCHY. It took me 12 or 13 punch outs before I finally got it. I'm not 100% sure if you have to actually score a goal or not or if it will automatically pop as I got the 13th punch out, but scored accidentally and saw it pop. Most importantly, keep the score at 0-0. The timer will never run out giving you the most amount of chances to get this.

    Good luck to those going for it, just takes patience.
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    GuitarSLAY3RThanks for crediting me. clap
    Posted by GuitarSLAY3R On 06 Sep 14 at 16:28
    You do not need to score to have this unlock you only need to punch the ball 4 times in one game.
    So technically if your playing with someone you can both get it in the same game as long as no one scores.
    Posted on 28 May 15 at 09:42
  • Uncle BAZINGAUncle BAZINGA
    15 May 2014 16 May 2014
    This wasn't working at all for me playing against the AI or locally against another person. Did punch out 4 shots in one single game at least 7 or 8 times without no luck.

    Then I've played a match online and there the cheevo unlocked immediately after punching out the 4 shots.

    This is definitely glitched. I've tweeted Rare about it. Hope this helps anybody who's still struggling with this one.
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