We showed you Kimbo Slice earlier, but how about kicking the shit out of George W. Bush, Arnold, Sly Stallone, Mr. T, and others? You’ll get your chance. Too bad we hear the gameplay isn’t all that nor a bag of chips.
Kimbo the Elite XC fighter decides to import himself as a female fighter into EA’s newest boxing gmae Facebreaker and name himself Zoomoonda. I have to say the commercial is pretty funny and Kimbo is a good sport for doing this, best line is “you can upload your homeboys face in this game and kick his @ss”. Can’t wait to the new commercials for the UFC game, Rampage FTW.
Well now is your chance. Looks like Kim K. is lending her likeness to EA and their new Facebreaker game along with Peter Moore. Kim is a playable in game character and helps promote the new “Photo Game Face” mode that lets players use their camera to import their faces into Facebreaker although I am very skeptical as to how well it will work since the face scans using the camera Tiger Woods were horrible.
Facebreaker is scheduled to drop for the Wii, Xbox 360, and PS3 on September 5. So get your pimp hand ready for Kim K. and no you can’t hit her with anything else in the face, shame on your for thinking it.
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EA wasn’t content with just giving you a Madden demo today. No sir. They wanted to ramp it up and give you some over the top fighting-based-on-boxing action with FaceBreaker.
The game looks like a cross between Ready to Rumble and Street Fighter. Could be pretty cool, so I’m glad there’s a demo to check it out.
The roughly 1GB trial is out now on the Xbox 360, but won’t drop next week on the PSN.
EA’s new boxing arcade title will be making its way to Xbox Live on July 31. PSN will be getting it on August 7. The demo will have create a character mode, which is very rare on demos. You character will be transferable to the full game, which comes our way this September.
In a developer call earlier today, Matthew Seymour, Executive Producer of Don King Presents Prizefighter took a little rip at EA Sports and their upcoming arcade-style boxing game, FaceBreaker. When asked about his feelings on the competition, Seymour had this to say:
FaceBreaker isn’t a boxing game.
Yeah, I can’t imagine EA will take this one lightly. Seymour says FaceBreaker is more of a Street Fighter type of game hybrid and that 2K takes the integrity of the sport seriously.
We’re trying to get in touch with EA for a response, but haven’t heard anything back yet. We’ll keep you posted. Check out our full coverage of the conference call later today.
A new Facebreaker character has been announced and it looks like EA is catering to their female gamers for this one, enter Kiriko, a bubbly boxer that states “wicked! I can’t feel my face”. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer, the addition of the female boxer just solidifies the fact that this game is a pure arcade title, no realism to see here folks.
The more gameplay I see of Facebreaker the less it looks like a boxing game and the more it looks like a cheesy fighting game. The action is too far over the top, you can see Kiriko drop kick a guy in this clip, last time I checked this isn’t allowed in boxing? What do you guys think?
The new EA title out of their freshly created EA Freestyle camp is Facebreaker, a cartoonish style boxing game similar to Ready to Rumble. I have seen some clips of the characters and gameplay and it looks entertaining, but I hope it is more technical than a button-mashing orgy in order to knock the other guy out. Fight Night Round 3 was probably one of the best boxing games ever made because it made the fights realistic, you couldn’t just come out and swing like a wild animal to win, there was plenty of strategy and technique to the game.
We also will see Don King’s Prize Fighter coming soon and this is a more realistic style boxing game more in the style of Fight Night. Speaking of Fight Night we will also see the newest iteration in that franchise in Fight Night Round 4, which was just announced will have everyone’s favorite ear biting ex-champion, Mike Tyson. So that is a lot of boxing being announced and pushed but will they deliver?
Will Facebreaker bring some fun to boxing or will it come up short? Will Fight Night 4 bring more of that tactical boxing everyone loved? And will Don King and his fro have enough to make his boxing game stand out? I was personally hoping for a remake to Punch Out myself. I think it is high time to have Glass Joe get pummeled again, I wouldn’t even mind seeing it on the Wii since the controls scream Wiimote.
It doesn’t show much gameplay action, but Facebreaker really reminds me of a souped up Ready to Rumble. The character models looks pretty good, and EA looks to have jacked up the humor factor. As long as they don’t mess that part up, the game should be hit. I mean, it’s using the Fight Night Round 3 engine.
Arcade style boxing is making a comeback in 2008 for the 360, PS3, and Wii as EA brings on FaceBreaker. Developed by the same team at EA Canada responsible for Fight Night Round 3, FaceBreaker brings comedy to the beat-em-up game.
The renaissance of the arcade boxing genre is upon us. Created by the same team that developed the award-winning Fight Night Round 3, FaceBreaker offers irreverent fun, immersive gameplay and eye-popping stylized graphics. In this in-your-face, arcade world full of ego-wielding characters, each boxer comes to life with unique attributes and distinct personal style, including Romeo, a Latin lover known for his pelvic thrusts, and Molotov, an oversized Russian demolitions expert with a penchant for fighting dirty. Add a little personal motivation to your fight by uploading a photo of your face to create a realistic likeness using Photo Game Face, and go toe-to-toe with a real-life friend or foe.
The game looks to be in the same style as Ready to Rumble Boxing, one of my favorite titles from the last generations. Fight Night Round 3 was easily the best boxing game ever, so building on that engine should make this one a winner.
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