The revamped career mode features an updated training regime and pre-fight scheduling. Sometimes it’s to teach you about the gameplay, but usually it’s to serve the arc of the story – whose flashbacks, colorful characters, and occasional surprises work well because they are handled deftly enough to be believable within the story as well as the gameplay.įight Night Champion is almost two games in one, because the Champion mode doesn’t take away anything from the core Legacy mode from past games. The reasons behind these staged situations vary. Sometimes your goal is only to survive for a few rounds, or maybe you have to KO an opponent instead of winning by decision. EA Canada tweaks gameplay perimeters of certain bouts in Champion mode to mix things up. For a video game to deliver on all these fronts is a minor miracle by itself, but part of what helps the mode work so well is that it’s not just a string of regular matches bookended by cutscenes. The voice actors convey the story well, and their characters are rendered with enough detail and subtlety to convey emotion and drama. You can’t win a fight with just one kind of punch, and Champion mode throws enough effective combos to be a formidable fighter.
Champion mode’s tale of Andre Bishop and the characters that surround him is an excellent blend of gameplay and writing, with each one complementing the other to produce a step forward for the genre. Therefore, the Fight Night franchise is the perfect place to do something gamers have wanted for years – create more drama in sports games. I suspect that although most people don’t consider themselves boxing fans, the sport resonates with us because it’s been delivered successfully via a story – whether that’s Rocky, Raging Bull, or even Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!.
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