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Facebreaker Breaks Faces Sept. 5

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]

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Facebreaker Meet And Beat: Kiriko

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 glamor 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.

Electronic Arts' arcadey boxing title FaceBreaker, continue to intrigue me, though I think it's really going to have to deliver in the control arena to make it worth playing.

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Facebreaker Trailer

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.

Remember that new boxing game from EA that we just told you about earlier today? 1UP already got their hands on this pretty picture. 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]

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EA Breaks Faces With Facebreaker

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! More »