Hi, Merry Christmas to you too. I wish I could give you an answer to your questions, but I really haven\'t been following news on the Bouncer since I\'m not planning on buying a PS2 right away. As far as I know, yea the backgrounds are still somewhat interactive in that you can pick up chairs and bottles and such and bash your opponents skull in with them. I don\'t think it\'s multiplayer in story mode though, and I\'m fairly sure that was one of the reasons why Famitsu gave it a score of 32(?).