First Facebreaker Highlights
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Once I get more time in with Facebreaker I’ll post up my full impressions but I wanted to get up some highlight clips for everyone to check out. The game includes the ability to upload the videos to the EA Sports World website. You can do this when playing with any of the characters including your created ones. Unfortunately this option isn’t available for online matches.
After the fight is over you have the opportunity to check out the available replays. It lists a set of different events from the fight to choose from which vary in length. In some ways this works as important moments may make the list but there are also instances where interesting sequences don’t for whatever reason. I also don’t like that you have to load into each one without having much of an idea of what the clip is actually of. It can end up being a time consuming process as you load in and out of various highlights in trying to find the one you want and may not even be sure is there to begin with.
This represents the first time the EASW highlights have included sound as well as the ability to change the camera angle. That will continue for upcoming titles such as NBA Live 09 where you’ll even begin to get some basic editing tools. Facebreaker does get its own allocation of video slots (six of them) so you wouldn’t be deleting ones from other games when they are uploaded.
Continue on to check out my first six Facebreaker highlight clips.
September 7, 2008 at 3:37 pm
nice job smashing ocho stinkos face
September 7, 2008 at 3:40 pm
from dat view dat looks like a decent CHAD
if ur NOT 1st ur LAST
September 7, 2008 at 4:31 pm
lol @ facebreaker… looks like a button masher, but im going to have to DL the demo now before i give my opinion
September 7, 2008 at 4:34 pm
lame game, classic EA.
September 7, 2008 at 4:51 pm
Well I’ll go into why in my impressions, but I’m not finding the game to be very enjoyable. I wouldn’t say it is bad, at least from a technical standpoint, it just doesn’t really provide the experience that it intended.
September 7, 2008 at 5:43 pm
Do you think part of the problem is the game speed, pasta?
I’ve been playing on the “easiest” level, and I am just getting stomped by ‘VooDoo.’ (Not to mention being winless online.)
September 7, 2008 at 6:36 pm
[quote comment="35287"]Do you think part of the problem is the game speed, pasta?
I’ve been playing on the “easiest” level, and I am just getting stomped by ‘VooDoo.’ (Not to mention being winless online.)[/quote]
Actually I feel that is the main problem with it. It’s too fast. So much so that my hand literally hurts and I can’t play more than one or two fights. It just requires so much concentration and so much instant reaction in order to have any success.
September 7, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I’m 2-1 online but I should be 0-3. I don’t like how you can win automatically on a “Facebreaker”. I got knocked down twice in one fight, then I broke my opponent’s face and won. I actually felt cheap winning online like that.
I’m having a rough time getting photos using my vision cam to create a face. It doesn’t work for me, only gets to about 4% then says it won’t work.
Online is sort of an anticpation game of guessing if your opponent is going high or low, and then trying to parry it. I had a sequence where there were about 4 parries in a row, which looked kind of funny. We were parrying parry punches.
September 7, 2008 at 11:18 pm
Pasta,
How about those Facebreaker sales. I told you before this game is gonna flop. This game is second worse ALL TIME next to ET for the Atari 2600. Way to go EA, you cant make a good IP at all.
September 8, 2008 at 2:08 am
this game is terrible
September 8, 2008 at 11:20 am
The problem I think with this game is, they have no clear direction for it. Is it a boxer, fighter. Its such a cross in between that along with the pap/sis/rock element, and rapid punches, that it has no depth whatsoever to it.
The last statement is especially without the PhotoFace thing. The reviews havent been great either. Ready to Rumble was more fun than this game, which is sad, becasue the dev team was inspired by R2R.