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I really want to like this game. Like most of you I've been waiting for a Fight Night style boxing game on PC for a long time and I grabbed this as soon as the early access became available. I've played every update, patiently waiting for career mode to drop to make any sort of final decision on this game. Well, career mode is here now, and I had the last 2 days off and played about 10 hours of it and I can tell you honestly that it is ass, and therefore the game is ass.
For some reason now every loading screen takes 10 times longer than it did before the update. I'm not even talking about loading into fights, like, you go from one menu to another menu and there is a loading screen. Wtf? Career mode essentially boils down to loading 3 or 4 different menu screens (lol) and then doing a quick fight with your character, then repeat. You only gain stats during fight camps, so the goal is to spend as much time in fight camps as possible but even the fight camps are just another menu screen, with loading times. I could forgive a lot of this if the mode was fun or immersive, but it's not. You get like 4 choices for hair and they all look like shit. No physics for hair or your shorts. 1 offbrand boot for every fighter. Everyone looks like an idiot who copped their boxing gear in the walmart sports department and got the same cut from the same lady at supercuts. Why the fuck do I need 50 different sliders for each part of my ear lobe but get 3 bad choices for shorts and 4 bad choices for hair. It just doesn't make any sense. More importantly, the game doesn't scale down to low stat fighters correctly. You're going to be at around 50 for just about every stat when you start, which means you are completely gassed after throwing a 3 punch combo in the first round, which comes out impossibly slow anyway, and most fights will last around 2-3 rounds with both you and your opponent going down and getting up back and forth 2 or 3 times each. It's not boxing. Idk wtf it is but it's not boxing it's nothing like boxing and this mode is trash. Your opponents will be the same so it's not like this makes the game harder it just makes it LESS FUN. Career mode is essentially asking you if you can win fights in slow motion, and your only reward for doing so is to sit through 4 different loading screens for 4 different menu pages, and then do it again.
Like I said, I've played this game for a year now. You can see that in my hours played. This current version of the game is the most low quality, low budget that the game has ever felt to me. In their effort to release something real and substantial it's become really obvious that this is just not a good game. Everything is sub par. The character creator is trash, the career mode is trash, and after 1 year of updates playing quick fight with a real boxer for a couple of minutes is still the best way to play the game. I don't know if I expected too much of the career mode, that's possible, but in any case this career mode wouldn't be impressive for a game that came out in 2014, nevermind 2024. I love boxing, I love boxing games, so I'll probably keep playing this for no other reason than lack of options, but you have been properly warned: This is a dollar store Fight Night. That's what you are getting here. An altogether worse experience than 10 year old boxing titles. The closer they get to final release the more it falls apart at the seams. They still only have 1 knockdown sequence. Every single knockdown reverts to the exact same count cutscene. It's all just so mediocre.