Customer Reviews for Fight Night Round 3

Fight Night Round 3
by Electronic Arts

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Video Game Reviews of Fight Night Round 3

Customer Review: Fun but lacks depth...
Summary: 4 Stars

Good game for the money... It lacks depth in the career mode... You might want to wait for Fight Night Round 4 to come out, but if you want a cheap boxer this one is good...

Customer Review: Great graphics, otherwise this game is a dissapointment. Terrible load times, difficult controls, & lackluster gameplay.
Summary: 2 Stars

THE GOOD:
- Great graphics: amazing detail on the fighters. You can see each bead of sweat, and each drip of blood is stunning detail. The light reflects off their skin making the game feel very realistic.

- Sound effects: pretty good sound from the crowds and when landing a hit.

THE BAD:
- Terrible load times: it takes FOREVER for this game to load. It is very annoying and detracts from the game. Also, creating your boxer's face is nearly impossible with the slow load time. You the next hair style, and 5 seconds later it finally loads! I can't believe they released the game with such horrendous load times.

- Difficult controls: using the right analog stick takes some getting used to, and it is very hard to through combinations. Blocking is also tricky.

- Lackluster gameplay: It's hard to get into a fight. Once you get into the Career mode, your first few fights are fun because you can win with authority. After that, the fights drag on and on and it takes forever to get a knockout.

- Career mode has no structure: there's a bar that fills up with your popularity, but that's about it. No ranking, no percent progress, nothing.

- Music: same 12 rap songs get annoying very fast.

- Training voice over: during training and between rounds the trainer's comments are annoying to the point of muting the TV.

- No autoload at initial start up. So every time you play the game, you need to manually load your profile! Stupid!

Customer Review: Good but could have been a lot better
Summary: 4 Stars

First, I will say that I am NOT a fan of the total punch control of this game, using the right and left analog sticks for punching. I am SO glad I can push buttons to throw my punches and I have mastered this very well as I KO most I come against. I find pushing the buttons gives me far more accuracy and that I can throw what I want, when I want instead throwing punches that I never intended to throw.

So, what the game tells you and other people perhaps, is not true. Button mashing DOES work if you master it. And, best of all, I play the game on Medium and I will still win most if not all my fights. ;)

Now, for the Pros of the game.

1. Great graphics! Very realistic muscles, textures for almost everything. The spit that comes out of the fighter's mouth, the sweat that covers his body, the blood that comes out from a cut, all very realistically done. Great job.

2. I love the training modes, they are fun and easy to do.

3. I like the three new punches in the game, great way to use them when your at a disadvantage and can turn the tables by suddenly knocking the other guy, very unexpectidly, on the canvas.

4. I like the new modes for the game, like ESPN classic. Relive some of boxing's greatest rivalries.

5. I like how much freedom you have in creating your boxer. Very nice feature.

6. It's not very realistic, but I love the different boxing gloves you can choose from and trunks, mouth guards, etc, and that they give your fighter boosts in certain stats. One feature I would have included would be creating your own with your own colors and adding voices to the taunts.

Cons:

2. Graphics. Look at the people in the background. They look like they were dragged stright out of the first Playstation. Come on! The PS3 is far more powerful than this. The background people should have been given a LOT more detail. Sometimes when I knock a guy out, my fighter's boxing glove goes right through the other guy's own or I had very obviously punched him in the head but my guy's boxing glove hits him in the belly instead. Minor issues, true, but issues that need to be fixed.

2. The three new punches in the game all have similar moves and more often than not, I discover I am doing one I did not intend, or even want, to do.

3. In real boxing, clinching involves being able to hit the other guy and not simply save yourself from a knockdown.

4. Where's the Speed bag? Three, soon to be four, games have not included the Speed bag in training mode. Why? Boxers use it all the time and I find it very hard to believe that a combo dummy increases a boxers speed.

5. I hate the fact that when you create your boxer with a certain physique, you lose it in training sessions. Although, this is realistic, it's also not fun watching my boxer go from rippling muscles to being a toothpick. This really needs to be fixed in the next game as it's VERY annoying. Players should be allowed to go through career mode having their boxing look the way THEY want. So if we want a muscle bound fighter or a fat guy, we should be allowed to do this and KEEP that physique, not lose it.

6. Perhaps my biggest gripe is the fact that I am just about ready to KO my opponent, the KO moment has happened and all I need is one more punch to put him on the canvas....

Only to get punched by him with a powerful haymaker and MY GUY get's in danger of being KOed!!! VERY ANNOYING! This feature REALLY needs to be fixed as it's not realistic. How in the WORLD can an exausted fighter throw such a powerful punch to turn the tables?! Simple. They CAN'T! When a fighter is exausted, there is NO WAY they can do this. I don't THINK so! Fix this!

7. Where's Evander Holyfield, Rocky Marciano, George Foreman, the Brown Bomber, etc? Why were so few big name boxers included in this game? Some I don't even recognize (like James "Lights Out" Tony for example). If these boxers had been included, the ESPN boxing mode could have been expanded and made better and give players more of an expanded option to take that boxer through career mode.

8. Illegal blows aren't that illegal. I've used them several times and the referee "never" catches me on it. This needs to be fixed, I want consiquences when I do these moves. The same goes for my opponent.

9. Must a woman in a bikkini show up EVERY time in between rounds?! Not everyone likes that kind of thing. Get rid of it or put clothes on her!

10. When I make a boxer, I have noticed that his stats increase pretty good (By +7, depending on the stat raised), but as soon as he goes professional, that changes. Now the highest stat increases by +5 (Unless it's heart, then it's +6 or 7). This is not very realistic. These stat increases need to keep up until my fighter is at LEAST 25yrs old, not diminish when he is still 20yrs old! (that's fresh out of Amatuer!).

11. Why does it take forever to become Champ? No matter what I do, I always end up being Champ when my fighter is 27yrs old when guys like Mike Tyson or Floyd Patterson were able to become champs at a very young age. I want my fighter to become Champ by at LEAST 24yrs of age, at least. Younger if possible. This needs to be fixed.

Customer Review: Best Boxing game thus far......
Summary: 4 Stars

First off, I would like to say that I love Fight Night. This is by far the best EA Sports game series ever. The reason is because, it is one on one and not 11 on 11 or 5 on 5, or one car against 20. Whenever you play in games that have numerous competitors at the same time (Madden, Live, Racing, there always has an engine that cheats .
Every game has some type of engine, but with games like Madden and Live the cpu will almost always cheat or do dome type of act that would not happen in a real game.(if you're gonna charge 60 beans a pop, make it realistic, or charge us what its worth) Even if these "miracles" did happen, it would not happen as often as it does in Madden or Live. Perfect example: In Madden 09, the Colts will audibe on almost every play, which is how the real Colts really play. But in the game, whether it is offese or defense, they will adjust thier plays to your plays alomost prefectly everytime, and then score or force a turnover. Im not even gonna expand on Live, that's why 2k is running them out of business.
Fight Night has some flaws too though. One thing I dont like about the game is the haymaker button. It comes in handy when you use it wisley, but if you play against someone who has a fast haymaker and your player is slower, (or your special move can be seen from a mile away), your opponent can abuse this to their advantage, and even pull out a victory because of that. This DOES NOT MEAN that that person is a better player than you.
Another flaw is the clenching. Like in real boxing, you can clench and still punch your opponent. That isn't the case in Fight Night. In the game, you only clench to prevent getting knocked out. I never clench, its corny. If AND when EA Sports improves this feature, then I will clench, but not to save myself from a knockout, I'd rather get punched in the face or body. Clenching is another feauture that inexperience gamers will abuse to attain victories. To fix this as well as the haymaker button, players should become exhausted and/or fatigued when they do it too much.
The other thing about Fight Night that I dislike is that there are not enought boxers in the game. And too many that ARE in the game are in at least 2 weight classes at the same time. That's laziness. Why have Diego Coralles as a lightweight and featherwieght? Or Roy Jones as a light heavyweight and superheavyweight? If they are in more than on class, thats fine. But dont seperate them in different weight classes as if they are two diffrent people, thats cheesy. Next time put more people in the game. Also the cutman feature could use a little more detail. Its the same routine everytime. There's no Vaseline, not spitting in a bucket, no sponges.What happened to that? All they have is cotton swabs for cuts and a swelling pads for bruises. The creat a plyer could be better too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, let's talk about the good stuff. The game itself is very very fun. Pay it online against the world. I like Diego Corrales. He is my favorite boxer in the game. I think he is the best in the game but he is a lightweight.....Need I say more?????The game is a classic, go get it.