Lets Break Some Face… Biaaaaaatch!
I know, I know… I wrote about this game in January, but now the trailers are running ramped. I just read an article on Gamespot.com about FaceBreaker (EA Sports Canada) and now I am stoked up again about this game. Slated for release on September 3rd 2008 this game should wrap up a kick ass summer for the gaming industry. As I have said before I am a fan of the boxing game genre and this one is looking awesome in a cartoon like way. This game has taken on a different style of boxing game, stepping away from reality you will get to fight with some colorful characters.
As any Ready to Rumble fan will tell you, the cast of characters you’ll be playing as “makes or breaks” any arcade boxing game. FaceBreaker won’t lack for variety here: It showed 12 fighters during the demo of the game, ranging from Kekoa the tatted-up surfer dude to the formidable witch doctor Voodoo. When you add to the roster the created players you can whip up using a face-importing feature similar to last year’s Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, you’ve got a cast of ridiculous-looking boxers whose faces are begging to be broken.
The gameplay in FaceBreaker looks to be a fairly simple affair: When in the ring, you’ll have light and strong attacks you can use to build up your FaceBreaker meter. Each punch you land will add some energy to the meter. How full the meter gets will determine what kind of special attacks (known as “breakers”) you have available to you. The base level is the bone breaker; next, the sky breaker (which tosses your opponent into the air); and next, the ground breaker (basically a crushing blow while your opponent is on the ground). The final special attack level is the FaceBreaker, which is basically a finishing move. To win a match in the game, you can either knock your opponent down three times or, ideally, finish him off with a FaceBreaker.
The single-player core of FaceBreaker will be the “Brawl for it All” mode, where you can take y our character and fight a ladder tournaments against all of the other characters in the game. This mode will have four championship belts to fight for, with multiple matches per belt. The difficulty you choose will determine where you restart the game should you lose a match; on easy, you’ll start from the fight you just lost, while on the higher difficulty levels, losing will send you back to the beginning of that belt’s tournament.
Here’s a series of teasers to wet your apatite (for destruction… ha ha ha). Check it out.
Tags: arcade, attacks, boxing, cartoon, championship, colorful characters, difficulty levels, EA Sports Canada, FaceBreaker, fan, game, reality, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, tournament
