The last great one was Fight Night Round 4. Man I used to love Hearns and his long jab and ko power. I could spend all night making people rage quit back in the day (I was world number 3 in my heyday) Seriously, those games were big sellers despite boxing supposedly beind on the decline. How is it that there is no proper boxing game on the market? I'm convinced there's a massive market for it.
Yea man, that was a hinderance - why can't these egotistical prats see that the exposure they get from games is good for them?
UFC is easy to make "hey Dana can we licence the game" "yes for x amount" Where do you even start with boxing?
Well they managed it with the Fight Night series, didn't they? A lot of the boxers on there were former greats, which I loved.
I loved fight night champion. I created Chris Byrd and I lost about a third of my fights but never to spammers, used to love facing people who spammed the straight right cos all I had to was weave and counter or step and counter. So easy. Although facing good sim players with a small HW was hard. Loved the story mode as well. Got boring online though when everyone became a spammer, won about 50 in a row taming my record to like 200-70 but what's the point of facing people and them quitting so often, didn't have any fun fights for my last 50 or so.
How many fighters did we get? How many REAL venues? How many real Orgs? How many real TV channels? How many real commentators? How many real referees? How many real gyms? How many real trainers? I know it's being picky but their all add to authenticity and what we ended up with was around 50 fights, not including the then biggest active name in the sport. Could you imagine a basketball game with out Lebron? A soccer game with out Messi? I loved the Fight Night series but lets not pretend it's not without a lot of flaws, and a number of the fighters included were "filler"-Billy Dib? Kendall Holt? Sergio Mora? Cris Arreola? And that's all without mentioning how screwed up the online was. The spamming and hacking really made it frustrating to play
if one of them games involved actual motion of your hands rather wiggling a controller I'd buy it tomorrow(but not an xbox game, I'm not buying American crud games machines)
Fight Night 4 was horrendous. It was pure button spam. Fight Night Champion actually required some knowledge and technique. Super game... I still play it now and again. The online community is still active too, people still play it.
the previous ones were largely button mashers, yes. You won just by developing fast finger slapping technique. A Wii one with better graphics and less time lag should have come out by now, but I don't know much about Wii.
I never got into Champion. Possibly because the exploits were more pronounced. There were definite dfifferent styles in Round 4 that you could win with, and I had some great fights against a guy called 'lefthandlead' - we must have fought a good 20-30 times. Both top 10 ranked in the world.
I think it was Teddy Atlas and Joes Tessotor (sic?) and yes there were real venues there. But who cares? You had many of the greats, even though some were missing. The online was the best part. I could beat 99% of spammers through letting them wear themselves out and timing counters.
It really wasn't. Anyone doing that would and did get taken out by the best counter punchers most of the time. It was always a great pleasure
