Fight Night Round 3 (Xbox 360)

EA's third installment in the series that replaced the "Knockout Kings" builds up on some things, disappoints on others and makes for a difficult buying choice. What is crystal clear though, is that Xbox 360's is the definitive version of this multi-platform release. ***The Potential*** Fight Night Round 3 features 30 legendary and contemporary boxers spread along 6 weight classes. From "The Greatest" Muhammad Ali and "Sugar Ray" Robinson, to Diego Corrales and Manny Pacquiao, each fighter is incredibly detailed not only visually, but gameplay-wise as well. While the breath-taking graphics are ... more

Fancy yourself as a bit of an Muhammed Ali or a Joe Frazier? Well with Fight Night Round 3 on the Xbox 360, you can step into a classic boxers shoes, or maybe start a career for yourself! The Fight Night series's first outing since the last-gen console certainly starts well. Within minutes you can fire up the Xbox, create a lifelike boxer, and be in the ring duking it out with the low rung boxers of your local circuit. The creation system is simple and effective, but for a gamer who wants to recreate themselves and shove them into the ring gloves first, the game offers an advanced version of ... more

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. Boxing games have always held my interest, there is nothing like sitting down and knocking seven bells out of an opponent to pass the hours and looking back now at the games I used to play on my Spectrum compared to Fight Night - Round 3 programmers have come a very long way in a short space of time. The pre-release reviews and screenshots of the game showed Fight Night - Round 3 in a very positive light with exceptional gameplay, cutting edge graphics and a banging, baseline tripping sound track. Costing £44.99 and produced by EA Sports, I had no ... more

Whether you are a fan of the noble art or not Fight Night Round 3 is a great game to play and has some great features. There is a great choice of boxing legends to choose from and you can make the matches that promoters can only dream about. In all you have three main play modes to choose from, career, one off fights and an ESPN classic mode. The controls certainly get a bit of getting used to as you use the left analogue stick to move the fighter and the right one to throw the punches so you will not need to mash loads of buttons but you will need some digital speed of movement and control to ... more

The third installment of this series from EA in my opinion leaves a little to be desired. Although very nice to look it has many areas that I personally believe need to be improved. The control of the boxer can be very difficult at times if you wanna pull off some of the more spectacular haymaker punches etc and this detracts from what could have been a much better game. The computer AI in this game is also very weak and with this in mind and the difficulty in controlling some of the punches I set out to do a little experiment. See my results below . . . Hypothesis I hypothesised that I would ... more