Fight Night Round 3 Xbox 360 Reviews

Fight Night Round 3

2006

Overall rating: 3 out of 5

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Fight Night Round 3 signals the return of the sweaty man mountain in shiny shorts x2 and the only real competitor to take to the ring in 2006. Where have all the boxing games gone? Well effectively, they're all here in EA's third tilt at the heavyweight title, if we must use pugilist parlance. You really wouldn't need any of the other pretenders, even if there were any. Fight Night Round 3 hits the spot with some of the most visceral visuals we've seen in a one-on-one fighter. Turn up the volume and listen to that gristle and sinew crunch and grate as you land (or get suckered by) the most powerful of punches. Then get back to your stool and let your cutman administer some repairs to your bloody and battered mush. Oof! And this is just the Play Now mode?? Career mode is the real meat and potatoes of Fight Night Round 3, but more of that in a minute. To get acclimatised to the game, the Training mode is pretty much essential if you don't want to end up on your backside within seconds of getting in the ring for real. Sparring and punching a heavy bag as well as lifting weights all goes toward helping your fighter in his career. You can inhabit the likeness of some of the biggest names in boxing in Fight Night Round 3, or you can create your own man in your own image (you wish!), sign a contract, and get busy with your first opponent's face. Success brings money to upgrade your equipment, and trophies to fill that empty cabinet. ESPN Classic mode lets you relive great match-ups in boxing history, with featured bouts including Ali vs. Frazier and Gatti vs. Ward. You can even get your own fighter involved in this mode, but only if he's tough enough. Fight Night Round 3 has enough satisfactory content to distinguish it from EA's last boxing outing. If PlayStation-based pugilism is your thing, then this really is the only choice.

Fight Night Round 3 details

Formats:	16 PS3, Xbox 360, PSP, PS2, Xbox
Players:	1-2
Genre:	Sport
Developers:	ELECTRONIC ARTS
Rental release:	10 Mar 2006

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poor control

By richard torres from uk london , 05 Oct 2006

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this game was fantastic graphics but crap game play. they spent to much on the look of the game and not on the game play its self
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rented for the GS, ended up getting really into it

By ukcraigie (7 reviews) from Oldham , 16 Nov 2012

had a ton of fun with this, easy 1000 gs too :) give it a go, if you love boxing games you can do a lot worse
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Very pretty but frustrating and average gameplay.

By JElliison6 (11 reviews) , 20 Mar 2012

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This game is graphically really good and still hold up well even though it came out quite early on in the 360s life cycle. the controls of the game are a little slow and the opponents either go down far too easily or block and frustrate you into attacking too much but with a bit of patience and some blocking the game is not difficult. Not much else to add except that when punches really connect its very satisfying but when they miss its rubbish.
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The developers deserve knocking out

By POD56 (11 reviews) , 10 Jan 2012

The game requires the mental ability of a lemming. The only challenge required in getting 1000G is not getting so bored that you loose the will to live and give up.
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not too shabby

By K0nFLICKt (6 reviews) , 04 Oct 2011

i was expecting this to be terrble but i actually really enjoyed it, its even made me buy FN champion a massive upgrade obviously but for a game thats so old is also really good not to mention the easy gamerscore.
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One of the worst games I've ever played...

By a customer , 23 Sep 2011

Very stiff and slow controls. Uninteresting career mode, bit of a chore at times to complete. I got this out initially to get the easy 1000G but it was such a chore I really couldn't be bothered shifting through so many fights, not too mention, even on easy the CPU can dominate you- very frustrating all round.

On the plus side, the graphics are good for 2006, but apart from that, very little to get excited about, but a lot to rage at.
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