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Fight Night Round 3
Fancy a bit of biffo? Then this brilliant
game from EA has you covered with a host of goodies that will make fight
fans happy for a very long time. There have been fight games on almost
every system since there was a system, but this one brothers and
sisters, this one takes the damn cake.
Boasting graphics that are sure to make you cry, Round 3 pound for pound
is gonna rattle your skull, loosen your teeth and generally make you cry
as you work your way through the ranks until you become the heavy hitter
that your momma always said she thought you were.
Every
thing you can think of has been taken care of in this title, I simply
can’t get over how much detail there is in the game. All the name boxers
look exactly like their real life counterparts, bodies sweat and bleed,
and when you take a ton of hits, the deformity work on the character
maps has to be seen to be believed. Tattoos, scars and the general look
of the boxers is there for all to see. And for those looking for just
that little bit more, this game features some of the best looking ring
girls that you are likely to see in some time.
Not
only is the boxing realistic, even the gaming environments take you deep
into the world of the boxer. Rings, training rooms, lighting, everything
comes together perfectly to provide you with a convincing gameworld in
which to fight. Add to that the ability to re-enact classic bouts in
black and white no less and I think that you are going to consider the
purchase of this game one of the best things you did for your 360 in the
short time that you have owned one.
Getting into the fighting itself and I don’t think that you have
experienced anything as realistic as this unless you were a boxer or
street brawler. Round 3 has developed a great system to allow fighters a
chance to see how their opponents moves are developing, but only
slightly. This is in order to give people time to react and actually
defend as opposed to a slugfest where you would just cop the punches and
hope that if you hit your buttons fast enough, you could do enough
damage to win. Moves like roundhouses are telegraphed out enough that
you should have time to react and at least try to block incoming wild
swings.
Online
boxing is a heck of a lot of fun and from what we’ve seen in testing
this out, the servers seem fast enough to handle pugilists from all over
the place belting the bejeezus out of each other. Spending many hours
online fighting people all over the world has reinforced however that we
are pretty crap boxers here at the impulsegamer stable! We got smacked
down in almost every bout, winning only when we were convinced that we
were fighting someone who had bought everything they needed to play the
game, including a 360 console and internet connection, just for a
laugh.
I will
wrap it up by saying that you really should get this game. I couldn’t
really find anything to fault the game at all other than at times it
felt that the bouts online were weighed pretty damn unevenly. Was that
because we had glass jaws? There are distinct ways that gamers will take
to this game and those with twitchy fingers should be able to kick major
butt every time due to the serious amount of moves that can be made.
If you
are not a fight fan then possibly no matter how much I rave will make
you buy the game. But at least do yourself a favour and give it a rent,
just to see how good it is. Who knows, maybe we’ll convert you yet.
Highly
recommended. |
