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Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

This was my ONLY complaint after community day. If you have read my blogs you will see I thought the gameplay took a great step in the right direction. Only issue was the footwork. I think this is something to do with the fact no matter how you turn you are ALWAYS facing your opponent 100% dead on. There is no angles to your facing. You can only get off center for a fraction of the time. Which makes using angles and moving side to side on your opponent tough because his punches are always coming straight down the pipe. Outside of that, the product feels great to me and I miss very badly not playing it. It was extremely fun and even fighting a high class tournament guy such as Term, did not feel like I was not in the fight. It felt really balanced and I hope online can remain this way. There is always exploits to be found, but I think so far it felt really balanced when our time with it.

Potential gamekiller man.
Fine its not a game killer but more like a huge game de-emphasizer.

Having an opponent who ALWAYS faces you 100% is absolutely terrible and extremely unrealistic.
In MMA you can get away with this, and even then its very unrealistic. The UFC games actually got it right tho.

But in boxing footwork and side to side movement is soo much more important.
A boxer who throws a lunging straight but misses should be punished by his opponent if his opponent sidesteps the punch at the right time.
This will never happen in fight night because the lunging boxer will immediately turn and face is opponent unrealistically.

Footwork is soooooo ****ing important to boxing. Having a game at this point in development lacking such a fundamental element is very telling of the direction the team is heading.

There is no reason (i can understand) for them to leave sluggish 100% locked on footwork in the game. Other than on purpose. Especially since EA MMA has such quick footwork. Quick footwork is even more prevalent in boxing!!! WTF!

I'm just annoyed man boxing is the one sport thats never been done right.
It's 2011 man. You can't be ****ing up the footwork in 2011. We get a boxing game once every 2-3 years if we're lucky.
It's like a sim Basketball game coming out with no dribble moves and slow terrible movement that takes the organic real sport feel out of the game.