Fight Night Round 3 (Xbox 360)

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• 8 stars

  Amazing step up for the boxing genre! Still needs some work though

  by AirJay78 on January 16, 2007

  Pros: Graphically amazing! Individual boxing styles is truly innovative!!!

  Cons: AI, cuts and bruizes, stamina levels, and slow motion haymakers need improvement!

  Summary: First off, I don't want to beat up the game so fast but let me start off with what is wrong with it.
  
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  Summary: First off, I don't want to beat up the game so fast but let me start off with what is wrong with it.
  
  AI:
  This wasn't such a big issue for me considering that me and probably most people who play this, mostly play it for the online portion. Nonetheless, the AI quality needs work. They only respond to that you throw at them and they tend to do the same moves over and over again sort of robotically. Also, if your good at shooting the 1 punch KO, you can knocking people how almost instantly as soon as the bell rings. 4 or 5 KOs in a row and your oppponent is out! Makes for a boring and unrealistic way to play.
  
  CUTS and BRUIZES:
  Very poorly done in this game! You almost never get swelling in this game! PS3's port did fix some of this issue a bit but for 360, you will almost never see a bruize. Cuts are also in the exact same places and look exactly the same every time. In fact, on each side of your face, theres only 2 types of cuts you can get and it always looks the same.The one diaginal on your cheek and the one right above your eye.
  
  STAMINA:
  Stamina levels definitely needs to be worked on as well. I find that when I am conserving energy and my opponent is whaling away, after the 6th or 7th round, he still manages to have more strength than me. Huge flaw! Now... the stamina levels do work! Your punches can get slightly weaker and bounce off the other guys punch easier, however, the in between rounds rests are so reenergizing that you end up back with the same energy as before. So the stamina needs to be bumped up quite a bit so prevent the whaling away that makes it a boxing game that starts to lean toward unskilled arcady style of play... which I know EA was not aiming toward!
  
  HAYMAKERS:
  Big disaster! They apparenty tried to fix FN's first problems by making a completely new problem! First off, a 100% always on the mark 1 punch KO is stupid! Second, no power haymaker is throwin in such slow motion in real life! Its almost unusable in the same unless your fighting someone that is a total newb. An idea to fix the problem was to keep the haymakers how they were in the last FN, and then increase the stamina punishment for parries and missed punches! But EA dropped the ball once again!
  
  Overall:
  Anyhow, those are my technical problems with this game considering that I am such a huge fight fan, former boxer myself. Is game is still downright fun to play and graphically amazing to see! I still rate it an 8 for the visuals and also for the fact that for the average person, this game will satisfy! Its a good game, but if those problems I mentioned above were fixed, this title would be platinum in my book!
  
  One small note! Gamer records need to be hidden. I have a huge win percentage and find myself in a situation where it is EXTREMELY difficult to find opponents who will play me. I don't think they were able to anticipate this problem in developement but even people who have the same record as me, still duck out of every match. Sometimes it takes up to 30 minutes just to find an opponent that isnt scared of your record which is pretty sad!
  
  Spectator mode would of been a super plus too!

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• 8 stars

  Very good, but could be great

  by Blood9585 on June 14, 2006

  Pros: punch system, classic mode with unlockables, create a boxer

  Cons: missing boxers, tedious and easy career mode, weird created boxer stats

  Summary: what make this game fun is that you can add more boxers that arent already in the roster, but they're stat never match up to what you input. Plux ...

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  Summary: what make this game fun is that you can add more boxers that arent already in the roster, but they're stat never match up to what you input. Plux the nick names don't match and you don't have an option for no nick name. Only boxer you can make with a correct nick is Hector "Macho" Camacho. Career mode can be fun in the beggining but old fast due to the repetitiveness, and ease of fights (even on hard). If they'd let you view rankings so you can initiate your own contract that would be cool, kinda like how nba live handles trades and contracts. Also they need as much training games as madden has minicamp...I mean a football game has more training than a boxing game...3 is definately too little....once you get past all that...all the real fun begins with multiplayer matches, I havent played online yet, but I've had heated rivalries with my roomates, so thats always fun. AND BRING IN THE ***HBO*** PRESENTATION...thats way better than ESPN.

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• 9 stars

  I need a cut man! But pain never felt so good.

  by alpianoman on February 23, 2006

  Pros: Game Play, Custom Character's, Online Play

  Cons: None for me..

  Summary: When I first got Fight Night back in 2004, I thought this was the best boxing game I have ever played. Fast forward to 2006 and I will say, Round ...

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  Summary: When I first got Fight Night back in 2004, I thought this was the best boxing game I have ever played. Fast forward to 2006 and I will say, Round 3 is definitely the best.
  
  If you have an Xbox 360 and an HDTV, this game jumps out at you. The same controls from the previous year are still has intuitive as before. The game is great. And I love the Custom Create a player.
  
  With all that being said, the real fun is with online play. The video game itself might lose some luster after 1000 hours of play <smile>, but when you can go online and fight others, that's a real treat. You never know who or how your going to fight the next guy.
  
  That makes it 10 times more fun!!

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