FaceBreaker is a part boxing, part Chris Farley slapstick and part wrestling game developed by EA. Unlike previous games from the EA stable such as Fight Night and Knockout Kings which had focused on strategy and mechanics of boxing this one is more concerned with the theatrical side of the sport. Facebreaker features 12 characters ranging from a tattooed up surfer guy to a crazy looking witch doctor. The game lets you use a face importing feature much like Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. The gameplay is fairly simple, once you are in the ring you will have two attacks, light and strong by which you can build up your facebreaker meter. Each of your successful punch would fill up the meter. The type of special attack which you are able to execute would depend on how full your meter is. The basic finisher is the bone breaker, next is the sky breaker, and then comes ground breaker. The Facebreaker is the final special attack which doubles up as a finishing move.
In order to win a match you will need to knock down your opponent three times or complete a facebreaker on him. The single-player game would be centered around “Brawl for it All” in which your character would have to fight through the rest in a ladder format. This mode features four belts with multiple matches for each belt. The difficulty selection determines from which position you start once you lose. The easier levels will have you fighting from the match you just lost while the harder levels would send you back to the beginning. At first impressions the game might seem like a mindless punchfest, thankfully it isn’t so. You are provided with some defensive abilities such as parries, blocks and dodges. Also every character would have the ability to render their opponent dizzy with a special move. The Voodoo guy for instance can fire a series of green skills which will stun you and the only way to recover is by punching yourself in the face, or of course let Voodoo do the honors.
Certain characters have special abilities like the kung-fu guy Steve throws smoke bombs into the ring and can disappear from one part of the ring to appear from another. It must be said that the sureshot way to win the game is to land a flurry of relentless punches. Once the facebreaker meter fills up, you can finish off the guy in a jiffy. The developers claim that the fishing moves are not all that easy to execute and will require some amount of skill on the part of the gamer. EA has no doubt spent very little time on the player details and the character creator in the game looks good for a laugh or two. FaceBreaker is the first game to be announced for the newly released EA Freestyle brand and looks to be a pacy and humorous game. The game is expected to be released during late fall this year.
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