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Re-Revised TLDR;I truly want this game to be the best boxing sim on the market but I would be flat out lying to everyone if I said this was finished. If you really love boxing against the CPU then you might enjoy this on sale, however multiplayer is still not a good experience. It has improved since my last review, but at a snails pace, and still has not delivered on promised timetables and content. Re-revised4.5//10
I have held out hope for this game for a long time. I have actively defended it and SCI for being a small dev who deserves time to put out a product. I am here to tell you this is all in vain. This game is a trap, no other way to put it. This dev has had time and shown next to nothing for it. This game has been overpromised and underdelivered to no end.
There is no other decent boxing game for PC and SCI knows that, they will take your money gladly while promising the world, and using your money for promotional materials to get more money. They would rather pay Youtubers to put out the good word than actually have a good game. They cant keep to their timetables, cant keep their promises, and in my opinion shouldnt be creating games, its that simple.
As for the game itself its fine. Maybe 5.5/10. Constant buggy issues, terrible netplay, and a fraction of the fighters promised gives this game a very short life for those who aren't boxing fans.
Here are a few very common and very annoying issues:
-Uppercut spam: Seems like a simple solution, back up, but they have much more range than they should
-Backstep straight spam: This is just mindblowing. Im glad this exists as an option but it should be nowhere near as damaging as it is. Even with the nerfs its just stupid powerful for long armed fighters
Fixed: -Cameraman on edge of ring:Like are you serious? Seems apparent that no one plays the game at SCI or they would have noticed this fight 1
-Buggy punch tracking: Punches might miss for apparently no reason. This has improved somewhat with a few of the fighters on the roster but is still very prevalent with others.
Improved tremendously:-Odd movement: The game has very fluid movement compared to older boxing games but yet it almost always feels buggy and unrefined. You can never take advantage of the more fluid movement because it just doesnt work. You will end up dodging when you dont mean to, and find yourself doing side step dodges when you just want to take a single step. The footwork was promoted as being one of the biggest pros to this game and it falls wayyyy short. They only just recently added diagonal dodges making infighting a bit more possible but without any improvements to footwork the game will never improve much.
-Fighter taunts: Small issue, but all fighters have the same taunts. They were able to put in fighter specific animations but the entire roster taunts the exact same. No effort was put into it, and while its not even near the top of the to do list, it just helps paint the lowly detailed picture that SCI is painting.
Half fixed?-No instant replay: Again shows lack of effort. I cant wrap my head around why fighting games do not offer this. Both this and the UFC series lack what almost every other EA franchise has as an afterthought. Both deserve points taken off, but again not on the top of the to do list. There is now an experimental instant replay that plays after a knockdown, but you have very little control in this mode. Certainly an improvement, just not ideal.
-General lack of content: Do you enjoy fighting all time greats like me? Ali and Frazier? RJJ and Calzaghe? Well you can! As much as you want! Until you realize that its the same fight over and over because the AI does the same thing over and over. It gets old fast, and even on undisputed difficulty the AI is a breeze. The only content that is ever updated are the prize fights, and again its just fighters that are already on the roster fighting one another. You might be given a fairly decent disadvantage against an undisputed AI but it doesnt count for anything because its just a quick play fight where the characters were chosen for you.
Addition: Fighters are continuously added, but its not near what they promised yet.
In order to keep interest they announced career mode was finally coming and have yet to even update the community on it at all. While the mode does look like a HUGE content addition to what we have in the game, it does feel like the lynchpin feature. As in, if it doesnt capture the entire gaming world it is only delaying the inevitable failure that this game is heading towards.
At time of edit career mode is still not released, game feels very limited, especially with how poor the netplay is due to lag and cheaters.
I truly want this game to be the best boxing sim on the market but I would be flat out lying to everyone if I said this was finished. Don't waste your time and money until this game makes it big or more likely fizzles out.