Fight Night Champion - March 1st

Coming soon - EA's first M rated Boxing game... with a newly refined physics-based animation system and a new "Full Spectrum Punch Control" scheme.

The game is stated to take a drastic turn from previous installments, depicting a "grittier" and "darker" setting with animations and player damage that "truly conveys the brutality of the sport of boxing."

The Demo is out now on the XBL Marketplace and for the last 2 weeks of the demo (14th-28th or so) will be online enabled...

A roster of over 50 boxers (from Today and Legends) including:
Heavyweight
Muhammad Ali
Joe Frazier
George Foreman
Lennox Lewis
Sonny Liston
Mike Tyson
Eric "Butterbean" Esch
Evander Holyfield
Vitali Klitschko
Wladimir Klitschko

Light Heavyweight
Bernard Hopkins
Roy Jones Jr.

Middleweight
Sugar Ray Leonard
Marvin Hagler
Jake Lamotta
Kelly Pavlik
Ray Robinson
Ronald "Winky" Wright

Welterweight
Manny Pacquiao
Roberto Duran
Thomas Hearns
Miguel Cotto
Oscar De La Hoya
Ricky Hatton
Julio Cesar Chavez
Shane Mosley

and many more


Debut Trailer


In your first fight in Champion Mode, you will find yourself in the ring in jail. No gloves, no rules, no 10-count, and the only way to win is to knock your opponent out.




Thoughts?

Well I'm excited about the game, but I'm gonna gamefly it first, I've got fnr4 but the career mode takes forever,and with all sports games playing the CPU or random joes blows, so ya I'm gonna play it and am in

I'm in....

Thinking about it...but as a serious boxing fan I have a question. Should "Butterbean" really be on a roster under names like Tyson (youngest champ ever), Liston, Ali, and Frazier? Like them or hate them we're talking all time greats....Give me a break!

If enough people are gonna play, buy, rent it , I would be down to buy it and run some tourneys like Forza , with weight classes and even a create your one boxer tourney. I'm just on the fence about buying it because of mortal kombat coming out in april. But I plan on playing it a lot if clanmates are playing it. I'm getting burnt out on fps games. And ya butterbean shouldn't be really in the game he's weak

S7 K1ll3rKlown wrote:Should "Butterbean" really be on a roster under names like Tyson (youngest champ ever), Liston, Ali, and Frazier? Like them or hate them we're talking all time greats

To be honest there are other lesser known (to me at least) fighters as well that I didn't list... so there may very well be more names that fit into his "special" (don't eat the paste) group...


and though he isn't a "Real" boxer, real in the sense of a 12 round heavyweight contender, he has brought in many casual/random fans to the sport just for the wow/wtf factor... and I'm sure that the same reason they're adding him to the game... It's that entertainment factor and for a game that's more dark and gritty I can understand why they may go to his old school Toughman roots... I mean how didn't watch those back in the day... Also, EA Sports has featured Butterbean in the past

He was also featured in the Knockout Kings Series... EA's Boxing games before Fight Night became what it is today

Having played the demo, I really like the game and the ebb and flow of the boxing, which has been massively improved. That said, it seems a lot harder this time around.