'Fight Night Champion'
Fight Night Champion seems to be the title where EA Sports got everything right in a boxing game. What they produced was a well-balanced title where the difficulty could be adjusted to how good the player was, but allow them to increase the challenge as appropriate. In previous titles, it was very easy to get used to how the artificial intelligence played and therefore score a well-timed knockout. Fight Night Champion puts the player in the fight for the long run, the drama of the fight unfolds when a player decides to use his melon and throw shots at the right time. First though, let's talk about the graphics; the animation is awesome with very few glitches. The copy I played was for the XBox 360 and apart from the odd arm through the ropes, there weren't many glitches. Boxers seem to get knocked over as they would in a real fight and the player is able to hit them until they go down, just like the sport itself. There is a huge number of licensed boxers in this game when we think of how professional boxers used to get an entire game dedicated to them, it's strange to see the likes of George Foreman, Evander Holyfield, and Mike Tyson all in the same game together.
