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Facebreaker Not Exactly A K.O. For EA
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | Not even the brightly shining star power of pseudo celebrities like Kim Kardashian could spark enough interest to make EA’s Facebreaker a hit. The lousy reviews likely didn’t help either, leading to a first month debut of a mere 52,000 copies across both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions according to U.S. sales data from the NPD Group. According to GameDaily, that’s “disappointing.” This isn’t the first rather low-key debut for a new intellectual property from EA this year. Boom Blox for the Wii had an unimpressive first month, but the title bounced back to sell pretty darn good. You could probably knock us over with a feather is Facebreaker followed the same pattern. Fortunately, EA has Madden, Mercs 2, Warhammer Online and Spore to soften the blow. Like a giant pillow stuffed with cash. So soft. EA’s Facebreaker TKO’d, Sells Just 52k [GameDaily] More »
Breaking Faces with FaceBreaker
11:30AM Brian Crecente | I had a chance to play around with Facebreaker a bit on the Penny Arcade Expo show floor over the weekend. Graphically, the game delivers, but I was a little surprised, slightly disappointed even, at how simplistic the controls were.The four face buttons let you throw high punches, low punches, strong punches and perform a grab and throw. To block a punch you pull a trigger and to duck a punch you hold in the corresponding punch button. While you can move your fighter around with the joystick, this doesn’t really seem to come into play much. Mostly you want to be close enough to duke it out and I found myself relying on the duck buttons to avoid blows, rather than moving my fighter away from the fight. What stripping down the controls so significantly does it create a button-mashing brawling that can be fun to play at times, but that may not deliver a game that with a lot of staying power. I had fun bashing in the face of Tristan’s pugilist, and occasionally having mine bashed in, but I can’t imagine it would be a game I’d want to play for any length of time. And while the simple controls seem like a perfect fit for young gamers, the over-the-top cartoon violence and T-rating seems like it will filter out most of the people who will most want to keep playing the game. More »Show Your Photo Game Face in Facebreaker
8:40AM Adam Barenblat | Being able to upload someones face on a character in Rainbow Six: Vegas was disturbingly satisfying. In this video we take a look at EA Canada’s similar facial recognition feature, Photo Game Face. Watch how Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt (MTV’s The Hills) kick the living crap out of each other. The game will be out for Xbox 360 and PS3 September 5th. More »
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Facebreaker Characters Revealed in Video Auditions
12:40AM Adam Barenblat | I was talking late yesterday about how entertaining I thought the Raving Rabbids trailers were. It looks like EA is taking a shot at that creativity. In these new Facebreaker auditions we get to see some of the characters that will be featured in the game. More videos after the jump. More »
Kim Kardashian Joins List Of FaceBreaker ‘Celebrities’
6:40AM Michael McWhertor | Add one more face to the list of possibly known faces in FaceBreaker. GameDaily writes today that Kim Kardashian, famous for some reason that I’m unaware of other than having sex on the internet, will join the line-up of “celebrity” boxers in FaceBreaker. GameDaily says she’s a “TV personality”, if that clears up anything for you. She’s also listed as being a “celebutant” which, I’ll assume, means she’s famous by design. They also have video of a digital Peter Moore beating Ms. Kardashian, which may dovetail with some EA Sports erotic fanfics you’ve been writing. Kim Kardashian in Facebreaker: Exclusive! [GameDaily - photo via WENN] More »
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Madden Demo Is Live…Oh, And FaceBreaker
2:20AM Mike Fahey | Time to get our big, brutish, manly hands on a small chunk of the latest installment of EA’s Madden NFL franchise! The demo for Madden NFL 09 is up on Xbox Live, with it’s presence on the PlayStation store imminent. It’s 1.08 GB of pure football power, crafted lovingly the most skilled football artisans and doused with just enough sweaty locker room smell to make you nostalgic without making you nauseous. I’ve already started getting my own particular brand of football fever, having already purchased, played, and traded in NCAA to prepare for my impeding purchase, playing, and trading of Madden NFL 09. What can I say? There is only so much room in my life for football and football-related knowledge. For instance, as far as I know, the above screenshot depicts the Colts versus Radio Shack. Oh, and a FaceBreaker demo is out too. Yay. Demo: Madden NFL 09 And Guest [Xbox Live's Major Nelson] More »Facebreaker Breaks Faces Sept. 5
6:00AM Brian Crecente | Electronic Arts announced today that FaceBreaker will be hitting the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 on Sept. 5, with the Wii version following this holiday, according to GameSpot. After watching this video of character Spin beating the brains out of a square-jawed, muscle-bound opponent, I’m a bit psyched. FaceBreaker enters ring Sept. 5 [GameSpot] More »Facebreaker Meet And Beat: Kiriko
4:30AM Mike Fahey | Well this certainly gets rid of any notion I might have had that EA’s Facebreaker would just be a reskinning Fight Night. Those are definitely not Fight Night moves that little glamour goth Kiriko is pulling off in this clip. Hell, those aren’t even boxing moves. It looks like they’ve created a 3D fighting game with a ring around it. Not quite sure how I feel about that. It certainly looks like fun, but with Soul Calibur 4 on the way I’m not sure I’m going to need another fighting game any time soon. That, and the over-the-top characters might be a bit too far over that top there. “I can’t feel my face!” *giggle* No. More »
