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Fight Night Champion shows the brutal price boxers pay for stepping into the ring. Fight Night Champion, the fifth entry in the series, does an excellent job of enhancing the experience in the ring. Not only can you see the impact of punches, but some gameplay tweaks give you better control over their delivery. Gone is the old punching system that required complex analogue stick moves, such as half-circle moves for uppercuts. Now, every punch is thrown by flicking the stick quickly in a specific direction. The altered punching system not only speeds up the flow of a bout, but also puts the emphasis of your fighting skills on your strategy. It's nice to know you are definitely throwing an uppercut rather than hoping you made the right movements with the thumbstick to pull one off. You can still attempt a ridiculous rapid-punch session, but the penalty of exhausting your fighter quickly is severe. No one can really play like a fool and have long-term success with Fight Night. The threat of a one-punch KO is constant. Previous Fight Nights had "flash knockdowns" before, which means getting dropped to the mat suddenly with one hit, but a flash knockout means that you are immediately unconscious with no chance to get up. It's an instant KO. The AI is smart. In fact, it's smart enough that boxers feel like individuals when you face them.If you're in the seventh round and they know they're losing on points, they might become more aggressive. If cut, they are often overly protective of that side of their face. Sometimes fighters make dumb moves. 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.Read full review
Okay, so Fight Night Champion (FNC) is the latest installment in the series. It improves on the previous additions with better graphics, an XP-based Legacy Mode, and the new Story Mode. The cons though that Story Mode while new and appreciated, takes less than four hours to go though, and the final fight requires a great deal of patience amongst other abilities. Also, the training games blow this year along with the way they only allow you to train four weeks, and I have limited myself to two games I am excelling at. I have not played online yet. In the end FNC is the best yet, but story mode needs to be longer, training games more user friendly, maybe a boxing death or at least a severe retardation from the smack down that I have been dishing out would be nice for a mature title, and how about making the time between fights dependent on what kind of beating that was taken instead of a default wait time. If my guy isn't messed up, I should be fighting a lot more within a year.Read full review
I have a friend who owns a PS3 just for this game. He talks about how great it is and I'm like "whatever, it isn't that serious." My friend convinced me into checking Fight Night Championship and boy was I blown away! Story mode is compelling and the ingame graphics is some of the best I have ever seen for a boxing game in my life! Like they say, better late then never. This game is a definite keeper.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
First time playing this since fight night round 3,
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
If you want to add fighters you have to get a ps3 eye camera and create greatness cause you wont be able to download of EA servers. Love my purchase
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
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