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Fight Night Champion
Fight Night Champion is a boxing video game developed by EA Canada and published by EA Sports. It is the fifth entry in the Fight Night series and was released on March 1, 2011 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game takes a drastic turn from its predecessors, depicting a "grittier", "darker" setting with animations and player damage that "tru...
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The sweet, brutally gratifying science. Well, it only took a decade or so, but it seems that EA has been - like every [...]
Fight Night Champion pushes visual boundaries with the most realistic boxer-likeness to date, fluid animations and damage that conveys the brutality of the sport of boxing.
Fight Night Champion gets the boxing right and adds a flawed but enjoyable story mode. I've always put a lot of stock in career modes, but Legacy mode here is just downright bad. The mini-games are too tough and get boring fast. The entire concept just seems off. What should greatly extend Fight Night Champion's playtime, made me like the game a lot less. Avoid the career mode, enjoy the story mode, and spend a few hours creating some dream boxing matches. That will make any boxing fan happy.
Is it just us, or does boxing seem slightly tame compared to the increasingly popular sport of Mixed Martial Arts, where blood splattering across the canvas is a regular occurrence? Well, the truth is that for all its no holds barred pummelling, boxing beats MMA in which is the more lethal bloodsport stakes and to our knowledge, only one fighter has died in an MMA bout, whereas numerous boxers have been killed in the ring. Why are we telling you this? Because it's worth noting that boxing is ...