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- Platform: PlayStation 3
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Suitable for 16 years and over. Not for sale to persons under age 16. By placing an order for this product, you declare that you are 16 years of age or over. - Media: Video Game
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For Fight Night Champion to represent a quantum leap over Round 4 is a major achievement in itself: Round 4 stunned everyone with its astonishing level of graphical realism. Champion builds on that to such an extent it will surely be hailed as the most realistic-looking sports sim ever, adding a dynamic blood system (which could leave the ring awash after a particularly brutal bout), plus even more accurate bruising and body-deformation systems.
Champion Mode
One huge all-new feature is Champion Mode: a full story mode, in which you take control of raw but talented middleweight Andre Bishop and guide him through a career, which even encompasses prison-brawling and bare-knuckle fighting, alongside Bishop’s progression through the boxing ranks. Champion Mode was inspired by classic boxing movies, and adds a whole new cinematic angle to the Fight night blueprint.
Full-Spectrum Punch Control
Fight Night Champion also boasts a completely revamped control system, which developer EA Canada has dubbed, rather grandiosely, Full Spectrum Punch Control. Fiendishly clever, it has been designed both to make the game more accessible for novices and to let more experienced gamers exercise incredibly fine control over their punching. Basically, Full Spectrum Punch Control maps punching to the right analogue stick (with boxer movement mapped to the left stick). So, if you move the right stick to the right, your boxer will unleash a right-handed punch, and if you move it to the left, he will punch with his left. The angle you choose determines the type of punch: flicking upwards will launch a straight punch, to the side a hooking punch and downwards an uppercut – with a full spectrum of intermediate punches in between, hence the name.
If you don’t fancy the sound of that, you’ll still be able to use the face buttons to punch: you can choose from a number of controller maps. Also, this time around, Fight Night Champion makes use of a heavy-punch-modifier, and lets you perform stepping punches, where you move in towards your opponent (which adds power, but are easier to block). The game has a completely new reflexive blocking system, and it will be important to master subtle techniques such as weaving, stepping and ducking. Fight Night Champion takes account of fatigue much more realistically than its predecessors: punches thrown when fatigued even have different animations.
Legacy Mode and Online Gyms
Legacy Mode, in time-honoured Fight Night fashion, lets you generate a boxer, take on champion boxers of yore and work him up through the ranks, both offline and online. Another cool feature is Online Gyms which, as the name suggests, lets you create an online gym in which you can slug it out with your mates to decide who is top dog. And if you reckon you can handle it, you can take on other people’s Online Gyms via so-called Rivalry Challenges. One of the joys of your Online Gym is that you can make the rules – so you’ll be able to fight 15-round bouts or change the round length if you feel that way inclined.
There’s not even a shadow of doubt that Fight Night Champion will come closer to capturing the experience of being a boxer than any game before it. Indeed, it may well prove to be the most realistic sports game ever, bar none. If you’re a true lover of the pugilistic arts, then it’s the game you’ve been waiting for all your life.
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More than just a change to the franchise name, Fight Night Champion takes the boxing experience one giant step forward by delivering an experience never before seen in an EA SPORTS video game. History will be made with this revolutionary iteration that builds upon the best-in-class gameplay and physics engine of Fight Night Round 4, while immersing you in a world of brutality, uncertainty, betrayal, and redemption. Survive the brutal road to redemption with Fight Night Champion.
- Full Spectrum Punch Control—Control your boxer’s punches with precision and accuracy like never before with a new synergy of gameplay controls. From overhand punches to strategic counter jabs and one-punch knockouts, overwhelm your opponents with your refined skill set
- Physics-Based Gameplay—Move around the ring and time your attacks with precision. Building off the best-in-class gameplay engine featured in Fight Night Round 4, you now have an even wider range of abilities when it comes to counterattacks, setting up combos, and attacking your opponent
- Legacy Mode—Create your alter ego and put him in the ring against past champions. Work your way up the ranks through training and scheduled bouts, and establish your name as the fighter to beat. Take your boxer online and see how you size up against the best in the world competing for local or worldwide belts in the all-new Fight Night Nation
- Online Gyms—Create an online gym with your friends and battle it out to see who’s the ultimate champion, or turn boxing into a team sport and challenge other gyms in Rival Matches to unlock items, win trophies, and more
- Authentic Content—Fight Night Champion showcases the truest graphical representation of the sport, lifestyle, and culture of boxing with authentic and dynamic blood, realistic body damage and deformation, and mature content throughout. Experience the violence and b
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Sadly, my opinion hasn't improved. Other than the Champion mode which is fun until the final fight which is overally difficult (a sign of things to come in the Legacy mode !) and frustrating.
Legacy mode promises so much but all it delivers is frustration due to the apparent inability of your boxer to land any really significant punches whilst your AI opponent lands at will once frustration gets the better of you and you start trying to brawl. I altered my tactics (tried boxing at range, brawling inside and a combo of both) but nothing seemed to work so I've finally given up and am now writting the most negative review of any of the Fight Nights I've played.
On the positive side, the 2 player game is still great fun (mainly due to the fact that both of you will suffer from the same gameplay difficulties leading to an ability to actually land some punches !!).
Maybe I'm getting old but I want to enjoy playing games on the PS3 but with the frustrating nature of this game, the overally complicated games that FIFA and Pro-Evo have become (all with silly button combo's to do rediculous tricks) and the stamina sapping GT5 maybe I need to find another hobby as gaming seems to have become more a test of patience than being enjoyable !!
I guess if you've got loads of time on your hands and can play these games for endless hours you might start to perfect the techniques required but I don't and just want to enjoy games that I can pick up every so often, play for a few hours and have some fun !!
So, it's on to the legacy mode. This is classic build-your-boxer-and-rise-through-the-rankings fare. Like many fighting simulations, you have a calendar to schedule fights against and training programmes to prepare your fighter with the trick being to ensure your fighter fits in sufficient training yet is well rested before the fight date.
This edition makes a lot of noise about enhancements to the fighting system - specifically in-fighting. You can mix it up on the inside, Mexican style, or you can box on the outside - there are a wide variety of classic stances and style to choose from. Achieving objectives during matches or training well earns you XP points which you can spend on the overall proficiency of your fighter and not just on general values like endurance or power, but by enhancing specific punches in your repetoire.
EA have tried to make the training sub-games more interesting but the reality is, point sparring, combination heavy bag work etc. do get monotonous. The prospect of sparring before a fight which will probably last 10 rounds is almost enough to put you off training at all.
And a lot of fights do go the distance as in actual gameplay you find yourself moved to play one of two ways - toe to toe until someone falls over or jabbing on the outside for a decision. The simpler punch control system assigns specific punches to buttons with R2 to vary the power. However, it is difficult to land telling blows and your boxer will tire quickly as you find this out. So many of my fights petered out to decision with my exhausted boxer circling my tireless opponent while peppering him with soft jabs. Mixing it on the inside results in the opponent taking much punishment but landing the telling blows which hurt your fighter with alarming regularity.
EA have done nothing to enhance the dizzy mode. When you hurt an opponent you are effectively playing a guessing game where you have a limited period of time to land one scoring blow while he blocks with eerie efficiency. In real boxing a hurt opponents' defence disintegrates when they are hurt - perhaps it would have been better to have to land a succession of blows or a particularly telling blow on a staggered opponent to actually put him down?
On the receiving end, you are still required to align the XY axis points to climb from a knockdown - as with previous editions, one knockdown is recoverable, 2 difficult and three impossible.
On the plus side, there are a huge number of licensed boxers to choose from and the presentation and graphics are better than ever. EA still haven't managed to reproduce the jolting impact of a hard punch - punches still push at targets rather than slam into them - but the animation of facial distortions as blows land is still impressive.
All in all, this is another still slicker refinement of the Fight Night franchise - but is it fun? I love boxing and have played many boxing games but I couldn't say I really enjoyed playing this game - it's something of a chore and that's not what games should be about.
Fight Night was challenging, I lost many times. But it was fun! It was also realistic in the sense that you couldnt knock out a boxer at the start of a match while he was blocking.
I also hate the jabs in this, the boxers cant even throw a straight jab properly at good speed. It seems so slow.
Games are supposed to be fun not annoying and frustrating. This is the first game on PS3 which I absolutely hate!
Pros
- Graphics are beautiful, especially the close up slow-mo's when you nail the knockdown
- Champion mode is very engaging and... Read more
The first EA Boxing title that really let's you live your boxing career and reminded me the feeling of the Cinemaware TV Sports Boxing!
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