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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Electronic Arts just put out a short teaser for their upcoming Fight Night meets cartoons game, Facebreaker. It looks like it has potential, though I’m a little concerned that it’s essentially just a reskinned Fight Night.
Peter Moore gets it. When Facebreaker was announced, Fahey and I both reacted with glee—EA was taking a much need step back from simulation, offering sports games again at last. Now Moore explains that games like Facebreaker are just part of a newly focused EA: There will be more announcements that will be, if you will, licensed intellectual property that will be looking at the more casual consumer that we see as a bigger force in the business…we think there’s a different type of consumer that…doesn’t want the authentic simulation game that we currently offer.
This is good, good news. Hey EA, do you remember your Mutant League brand, perchance?
Remember that new boxing game from EA that we just told you about earlier today? 1UP already got their hands on this pretty picture (mega version after the jump). The game is called Facebreaker, and after just one screen and a press release, I’m seriously interested. As Fahey mentioned earlier, EA games have gotten so simulation oriented that it can take the fun away from the more casual sports fan. But a full onslaught of perfectly simulated cartoon combat sounds like just my cup of tea plastic bottle of a rough and tough inhumanly-colored thirst quencher.
FaceBreaker (Xbox 360) [1UP via Maxconsole]
Let’s get Ready To Rumble! At least rent a copy of it if you can find it to prepare yourself for EA’s latest sports franchise, Facebreaker. It’s a return to the more arcadey days of the boxing genre in development for the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360 – and it’s got our old friend Peter Moore ready to kick some serious ass. “FaceBreaker reinvigorates one of the great genres in sports videogames. Arcade boxing takes me back to my roots in this industry, and this game signals our shift to adding more approachable fun to our product lineup. In no time at all, you’ll be picking up the controllers and knocking your opponent around the ring, smashing faces, and having a riot.”
I have to agree…EA Sports was sort of lacking in the approachable fun department, and nothing says approachable fun like a bunch of regional sterotypes pummeling each other with real-time facial deformation. A Latin lover named Romeo and a Russian demolitions expert named Molotov? Why not a British coal miner named Limey, or a French baker named Croissant? The possibilities are endless! Use the comments section to come up with your own stereotyped cartoon boxer!
