Ordinary reprint without long-term fun

The tension rises, the inlet music pumped through the stadium speakers, the lights go on, the ring tone sounds Locke it is once again time to let their fists speak! Nearly two years after Fight Night Round 4 EA Sports sends with Fight Night Champion the latest offshoot of the successful boxing series in the running for the championship. If the game is a heavyweight, or rather just a sparring partner? We tell you!

The Champion mode

There are probably not many sports games that can boast its own story mode, Fight Night Champion is one of them. In so-called Champion mode you take on the role of Andre Bishop, in his emerging boxing talent. This also recognizes the dark promoter McQueen and wants to take the boy under his wing to make a quick buck with him. However, as Andre is a man of principle, he rejected the offer. A mistake? Although he does not lose so his face, but his freedom because of the powerful McQueen manages through an intrigue to carry Bishop for five years behind bars. And as if that were not bad enough, he takes even Andres younger brother contracted. At last released from prison, Andre McQueen's daughter Megan, who is not particularly pleased with the Daddy also accepts, as a manager to continue the interrupted boxing career.

The story is of dramas hard to beat and could also originate from a kitschy movie, but it served its purpose and soon created sympathy for the beleaguered Andre. The story itself can be driven by you only won boxing matches ahead, which although may seem a bit meager, but due to the different challenges will not be bored. So Andre must be bare-knuckle against multiple opponents in jail, convince lubricated referee with knock-outs, winning fights despite being restricted by injury or make his opponent only in certain places. Overall, a good idea, which adds variety. Unfortunately, the story is played out relatively quickly, depending on the difficulty, the playing time is between 2-4 hours, you look really hard nut teeth can only the boss Isaac Frost.

Career Mode

As pretty much every other game made by EA Sports Fight Night Champion also offers you the opportunity to go through an entire sporting career. Who wants to do without pre-game characters, the tinkering to import your own face his personal Boxer with the possibility via a USB camera. Beginning of course is at the bottom of the career ladder, as so-called talent. Now it is time to train to improve the boxer, but also repeatedly to organize struggles to climb up the table. The way to the GOAT, the Greatest Of All Time, much more time consuming than the Champion mode, making it the focus of the game. To make things even a trace realistically you learn then, as if in high age athletes the big time is passing slowly and younger boxers take over the reins.

More ways to play

The most fun games bring sports course in multiplayer mode. This is available both locally and online in Fight Night Champion. Online, you can set up a so-called Gym and meet there with friends to one another to discharge struggles, but this is not mandatory, but a smaller group of all other users a little separates.

Furthermore you will find in the menu, so-called training games. Of which there are a total of ten pieces, each with a different challenge. So a good defense, for example, rewards, while his opponent you have to send to the boards in Keeping your distance with blows from a distance in defensive specialist. So overall play was similar so squeezed out almost everything in order to make the sport through different variants varied as in the Tiger Woods.

Spongy control and lack of tactics

So far, everything sounds really good, but the most important point, the boxing match per se, is Fight Night Champion makes the biggest mistake. The controls are sluggish and inaccurate, which is especially while dodging disadvantage because the boxer responded too late. But also on the offensive, it does not look different and so is slammed shut, although the designated key is long gone down. This drawback is, ironically, a little offset from the game itself, there is little tactical behavior of troubles anyway. Basically is beaten into mainly wild successive, partially, the boxer beat simultaneously and repeatedly on their heads without being much affected them. Fortunately, there is the persistence display that you force them to go sometimes in coverage. With every action and every enemy hit is fading a little from the bar. Is it empty, you will vulnerable to knock-outs, where the higher-class opponents exploit this immediately and make short work. By contrast helps a brief ceilings or trying to luck but even dodge and counter. Is stamina refilled, the whole thing all over again. One must concede the game that it attaches great importance to action and entertainment and thus the fists fly much faster than in many a real boxing match, but with the much-heralded this realism did not really have much in common.

Tyson, Ali and Klitschko close

The amount of fighters is really commendable. From all weight classes (mainly in the USA) known boxers here, including both current athletes and the Champs bygone days. To the boys to be able to fully enjoy was really turned up the graphics screw, because it looks really fantastic. Especially during the fighting with splashing sweat and blood, the mobile shorts and of course the opponents in the ring, you can always click your tongue, as well as the sequences in Champion mode is well done. Small flaws in the optical range would be the camera position, while providing a clear sight, but is always the same positioning. In sport you could wish for anything more views! In addition, the referee runs often times across the screen and blocks the view.

Also sound can be accused of anything Fight Night Champion barely. The soundtrack mostly black music is really cool, the noise inside and outside the ring ensure proper mood. The commentators who are there to listen in English make, generally a good job, in Champion mode they tell but in every fight the same story about Andres fighting style, which at some point a little annoying.

Conclusion

Despite the shortcomings in terms of control and tactics can be in Fight Night Champion speak of a quite successful sports game, which is due primarily to the great graphics, the motivating career mode and also fun Champion mode. When it comes to boxing video games EA Sports therefore remains the number 1, which also lies on the lack of competition. Boxing fans can strike like, but need to be aware that Fight Night Champion has become not a flawless simulation, but a very action-packed game.