- Full Spectrum Punch Control—Control your boxer’s punches with precision and accuracy like never before with a new synergy of gameplay controls. From overhand punches to strategic counter jabs and one-punch knockouts, overwhelm your nents with your refined skill set.
- Physics-Based Gameplay—Move around the ring and time your attacks with precision. Building off the best-in-class gameplay engine featured in Fight Night Round 4, you now have an even wider range of abilities when it comes to counterattacks, setting up combos, and attacking your nent.
- Legacy Mode—Create your alter ego and put him in the ring against past champions. Work your way up the ranks through training and scheduled bouts, and establish your name as the fighter to beat. Take your boxer online and see how you size up against the best in the world competing for local or worldwide belts in the all-new Fight Night Nation.
- Online Gyms—Create an online gym with your friends and battle it out to see who’s the ultimate champion, or turn boxing into a team sport and challenge other gyms in Rival Matches to unlock items, win trophies, and more.
- Authentic Content—Fight Night Champion showcases the truest graphical representation of the sport, lifestyle, and culture of boxing with authentic and dynamic blood, realistic body damage and deformation, and mature content throughout. Experience the violence and brutality that is true to the trade.
Manufacturer's Description
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If you think about it, the noble sport of boxing is the perfect
basis for a videogame: it’s thrilling to watch but, in real life,
painful to practise. And one franchise towers over the boxing
games genre like Muhammad Ali in his prime: Fight Night. And now
Fight Night Champion promises to be the franchise’s finest moment
– its Thrilla in Manila or Rumble in the Jungle. Hence the change
in naming convention: coming after Fight Night Round 4, you would
have expected it to be called Round 5.
For Fight Night Champion to represent a quantum leap over Round 4
is a major achievement in itself: Round 4 stunned everyone with
its astonishing level of graphical realism. Champion builds on
that to such an extent it will surely be hailed as the most
realistic-looking sports sim ever, adding a dynamic blood system
(which could leave the ring awash after a particularly brutal
bout), plus even more accurate bruising and body-deformation
systems.
Champion Mode
One huge all-new feature is Champion Mode: a full story mode, in
which you take control of raw but talented middleweight Andre
Bishop and guide him through a career, which even encompasses
prison-brawling and bare-knuckle fighting, alongside Bishop’s
progression through the boxing ranks. Champion Mode was inspired
by classic boxing movies, and adds a whole new cinematic angle to
the Fight night blueprint.
Full-Spectrum Punch Control
Fight Night Champion also boasts a completely revamped control
system, which developer EA Canada has dubbed, rather grandiosely,
Full Spectrum Punch Control. Fiendishly clever, it has been
designed both to make the game more accessible for novices and to
let more experienced gamers exercise incredibly fine control over
their punching. Basically, Full Spectrum Punch Control s
punching to the right analogue stick (with boxer movement ped
to the left stick). So, if you move the right stick to the right,
your boxer will unleash a right-handed punch, and if you move it
to the left, he will punch with his left. The angle you choose
determines the type of punch: flicking upwards will launch a
straight punch, to the side a hooking punch and downwards an
uppercut – with a full spectrum of intermediate punches in
between, hence the name.
If you don’t fancy the sound of that, you’ll still be able to use
the face buttons to punch: you can choose from a number of
controller s. Also, this time around, Fight Night Champion
makes use of a heavy-punch-modifier, and lets you perform
stepping punches, where you move in towards your nent (which
adds power, but are easier to block). The game has a completely
new reflexive blocking system, and it will be important to master
subtle techniques such as weaving, stepping and ducking. Fight
Night Champion takes account of igue much more realistically
than its predecessors: punches thrown when igued even have
different animations.
Legacy Mode and Online Gyms
Legacy Mode, in time-honoured Fight Night fashion, lets you
generate a boxer, take on champion boxers of yore and work him up
through the ranks, both offline and online. Another cool feature
is Online Gyms which, as the name suggests, lets you create an
online gym in which you can slug it out with your mates to decide
who is top dog. And if you reckon you can handle it, you can take
on other people’s Online Gyms via so-called Rivalry Challenges.
One of the joys of your Online Gym is that you can make the rules
– so you’ll be able to fight 15-round bouts or change the round
length if you feel that way inclined.
There’s not even a shadow of doubt that Fight Night Champion will
come closer to capturing the experience of being a boxer than any
game before it. Indeed, it may well prove to be the most
realistic sports game ever, bar none. If you’re a true lover of
the pugilistic arts, then it’s the game you’ve been waiting for
all your life.