Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

[DaveDQ]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

I know this isn't a big deal but why the name change to "Champion" and not "Round 5"? At first I thought this was a spin-off or something like that and not the direct sequel to Round 4.

Anyways, looks nice graphically as always. Hopefully they fix up all the issues from Round 4 and make a really nice Career Mode (minus the horrible weight class freezing bug that screwed me over). It would also be nice if I didn't get screwed on buying new fighters like I did last year. I want my 100-something MS points back!

Also I'm surprised that they announced this game so early considering it's not coming out until next year. At the earliest we're still 6 months away from the game coming out, if it were to come out in January.

Most of all the title needs to imply newness and freshness. Especially a title that is every two years like Fight Night. Round 5 to me sounds too much like a sequel. It's good to get away from naming each title by round.

[Money99]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/videogames/blog/_/name/thegamer/id/5398834/ea-announces-fight-night-champion

After the disappointing sales of EA's "Fight Night: Round 4", it looks as though the game is boosting the violent imagery in hopes of upping the shock value...

What???
According to VGChartz, the game sold over 2M copies worldwide:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=FIght%20Night%20Round%204

Xbox 360 - 1.17M
PS3 - 1.11M

How can over 2.25M be considered poor sales??? I think that's pretty freakin' good!

the blog said they figured they would change the name now rather than run out of rounds later, they probably could have done better than champion tho

"Fight Night: The Road"

Man, I'm smart!

[DaveDQ]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vide...night-champion



What???
According to VGChartz, the game sold over 2M copies worldwide:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=FIght%20Night%20Round%204

How can over 2.25M be considered poor sales??? I think that's pretty freakin' good!



"Fight Night: The Road"

Man, I'm smart!

Maybe they are thinking in comparison to FN3?

[thelwig14]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

http://espn.go.com/espn/thelife/vide...night-champion



What???
According to VGChartz, the game sold over 2M copies worldwide:

http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/browse.php?name=FIght%20Night%20Round%204

How can over 2.25M be considered poor sales??? I think that's pretty freakin' good!



"Fight Night: The Road"

Man, I'm smart!

Disappointing sales is all on the Fight Night team. The removal of buttons..only to add them months later when consumers moved on...is all their fault.

[DaveDQ]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

Disappointing sales is all on the Fight Night team. The removal of buttons..only to add them months later when consumers moved on...is all their fault.

I disagree. FN3 was big in sales because it was the first game to show what these systems could do. Everyone was wowed by the visuals in FN3 and it really carried the game's sales figures. FN4 did great in sales but many saw it as a let down in comparison to FN3.

[eye guy]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

This is a waiting and see for me.

Yip me too. If you look at the pic where Pacquiao's throwing the punch, some things look weird, eg. Winky's body.

[BLemieux]

Re: Fight Night Champion Revealed with 2 Screenshots, To Be Released in 2011

Yip me too. If you look at the pic where Pacquiao's throwing the punch, some things look weird, eg. Winky's body.

Well it's still early in development, so that will hopefully be fixed. But so far the game looks amazing. Like another person said, it better not be scripted in career mode like PrizeFighter. But I don't think EA would do that.

Hopefully it will also have 2 control schemes, make it so fighters can't throw fifty punches before they're finally fatigued, and make the overall fighting system better.