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Fight Night Takes The Hook Out Of Hooks?

Kotaku writes:

"Fight Night Takes The Hook Out Of Hooks? This Official Xbox Magazine preview of Fight Night Champion offers a look at the boxing franchise's gameplay. More importantly, they're fooling with the analog controls again. Sounds like hooks and uppercuts won't need the winding motions to execute anymore."

Blaze9294896d ago

Didn't know the game was coming out in March - Move/Kinect support is looking dim now. How cool would it have been to have optional motion controller support for this game? I know it can't just be me who wants that.

eggbert4896d ago

It'd probably harder to program that support in than you think because the controllers (move at least) would have to be 1:1 up until the point of impact of the punch. Since the characters limbs can't be going through each other in the game, I imagine it'd be a pretty big hassle to get the game to be 1:1 during the punches, but then follow their "physics" trajectory after impact.

Also, the motion controls would offer a wider variety of angles to punch from, since the last games you could only ever do head level or body level punches.

Blaze9294896d ago

I'm sure they'll be able to get it down with Move eventually. Maybe Fight Night 6.

mikeslemonade4896d ago (Edited 4896d ago )

I don't really care if the motion control option is broken. It would be fun to finally have a boxing sim that you can use motion controls on. Put it this way, if they incorporate motion control in the game I'd buy it, but if they don't i'd rent it. I mean really, what are they adding to the game other than minor graphic enhancements and changing the controls a bit. I'm not buying the game full price unless they have motion control in it.

Blaze9294896d ago

that's EXACTLY what I'm saying.

Wh15ky4895d ago

Don't believe what the idiot reviewers said about The Fight: Lights Out, the game works very well once you upgrade your fighters stats and it is 1 to 1.
It would be fantastic to have a proper boxing game with the same controls.
I usually look forward to Fight Night games but this one is just not doing it for me. I think it's the dissapointment of no move controls.

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jack who4896d ago (Edited 4896d ago )

ea i stopped my boy court of all your games cause you opened your eyes and gave us all the need for speed we all been waiting for. now if you dont support my Kinect in this new fight night the boy court will back on!

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Rainstorm814896d ago (Edited 4896d ago )

Boy court sound a lil funny......

It would be nice to see motion controls in fight night, didnt they have a fight night tech demo using kinect.....before it was kinect or natal??

Edit: yep but this clearly isnt fight night, is it me or does it look more accurate??? (no flamebait intended, just an observation)

Pennywise4895d ago

Boy court... Well that explains a lot.

M4896d ago

Buying this because of Pacman.

SuperK4896d ago

Im jus interested to see what this new championship mode is like. never been done before apparantly...... always get nervous when devs say that. hopefully it will be something new. EA career modes are all the same.

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EA to Spend Billions Boosting Share Prices After Mass Layoffs

EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.

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Yi-Long1h ago

Well, anything to make those shareholders happy, I guess. They're all that matters in this industry nowadays.

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein63d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga62d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo62d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken62d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN62d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199261d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia63d ago (Edited 63d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575662d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies62d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde61d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos62d ago (Edited 62d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai62d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken62d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
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Eonjay62d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger62d ago (Edited 62d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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EA And Sony Layoffs, Entertainment News And More Skewedcast

Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.