1Up.com has a new review posted for the multi-platform title Facebreaker. Check it out:
You can read the entire review here.
At first glance, FaceBreaker looks like a spiritual successor to cartoony arcade-boxing games like Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! or Ready 2 Rumble Boxing. They all feature diverse casts of eccentric boxers with bombastic moves that you've gotta learn how to counter in order to move up the ranks and win title belts. That's pretty much where the similarities between FaceBreaker and its predecessors end.
FaceBreaker is more casual fighter than pugilist-laden spectacle. Basic attacks -- high punch, low punch, throw, and the all-powerful haymaker -- can be charged up for more powerful blows, and each character sports their own variation on this move set. Steve, the bulbous Karate Math-lete, eschews the haymaker punch in favor of a crane kick, and his ninja abilities allow him to teleport. Fights are a button masher's dream: The action unfolds too fast for any serious strategic play, and attacks follow a rock-paper- scissors approach (jabs beat haymakers; haymakers stop throws).
FaceBreaker is more casual fighter than pugilist-laden spectacle. Basic attacks -- high punch, low punch, throw, and the all-powerful haymaker -- can be charged up for more powerful blows, and each character sports their own variation on this move set. Steve, the bulbous Karate Math-lete, eschews the haymaker punch in favor of a crane kick, and his ninja abilities allow him to teleport. Fights are a button masher's dream: The action unfolds too fast for any serious strategic play, and attacks follow a rock-paper- scissors approach (jabs beat haymakers; haymakers stop throws).
You can read the entire review here.