I have been playing Fight Night games for years and have seen a good evolution in the gameplay and realism but with Champions i feel it fell flat. Overall the graphics of the game were improved but nothing to shout about, Fight Night Champions had a lot of potential after coming off a good string of previous games but after playing a good amount of this game i felt really underwhelmed. … Expandįight Night Champions had a lot of potential after coming off a good string of previous games but after playing a good amount of this game i felt really underwhelmed. There's no checkpoint system so if you want to go back and try to finish the last fight with more health and stamina so you can actually take a hit in the second. And going down even once spells game over and you have to start the whole sadistic fight over again. Only to have to go into the next fight with even less health and stamina to the point where if your opponent hits you even once you're going down. Even on Amateur you're likely to expend a lot of energy and health trying to take him down. You don't know it's coming and you face a particularly tough fight before the second one. There's one particular point in the story mode where you're forced to fight two fights back to back. Don't believe me? Just watch some of the replays and watch your fist or entire arm go through your opponent without them blocking or dodging and watch in amazement as the game doesn't register a connecting hit. The only "roller coaster ride" involved will be the roller coaster ride you blood pressure takes when the game mercilessly knocks you out because a lot of your hits don't register as connecting.
Champion Mode is unbalanced and unfair even on the easiest difficulty. Quite possibly the worst boxing game I've ever played. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The bad: Unreliable hit detection, gameplay has become too arcade-y, bland but innovative story mode, and overall.the game feels wayy too recycles.
The good: A few cool innovations, great graphics, some enjoyable gameplay.
And legacy mode, is just a recycled version of its last models.
the entire presentation department felt like an update rather than a stand alone sequel. The presentation- overall nothing to complain too much about, a few graphic updates, overall. And of course, this title still has the unreliable hit detection which has become notorious in the series. and with this, blocking feels reliant on luck rather than skill. They also simplified the blocking system. a jab will be mistaken for an uppercut and vice versa. but in practice, your fighter 9 times out of 10, won't do what you want him to do. The new hit system almost makes it way too easy to punch, which sounds like a good thing. The new story mode is a really good idea but overall is nothing special at all, it has a lot of potential, there are a few good fights in it and there are even more cheap annoying fights in it. The new hit system almost makes it way too easy to punch, which sounds like a FNC!! Right down to it, this game feels so much more like a recycle than a true sequel. … ExpandįNC!! Right down to it, this game feels so much more like a recycle than a true sequel.
I had the most fun in the Champion Mode, but when you come to the end, the game shows its ugly head again, the champion you have to fight is so overpowered, you would think he is either a android or a alien. The graphics have been tuned and so has the fighting mechanism, but in my book, towards the bad, when it comes to the Fight Now mode, its a blast, but when you start the Legacy Mode, the fun is gone, even when you encounter fighters that are way below your skills they will still beat you by one point, even when you have knocked his *ss on the ground! Online pretty much is a disaster, The graphics have been tuned and so has the fighting mechanism, but in my book, towards the bad, when it comes to the Fight Now mode, its a blast, but when you start the Legacy Mode, the fun is gone, even when you encounter fighters that are way below your skills they will still beat you by one point, even when you have knocked his *ss on the ground! Online pretty much is a disaster, spammers, brawlers and belt holders that wont even dare to fight anything that comes near their level.