Is it possible? I'm afraid to try since there's no apparent save slots and only the option to Continue. Will it save over my first game if I start and save a new one?
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I did sort of an impressions blog of the demo if anyone wants to check it. Here's most of it.
The action is really fast, definately qualifying it as a buttonmasher as you attempt to string together punch combos. There's very little break from throwing punches all the time, except for an occasional useless grab or the computer pulling out a special beatdown on me. One button for low hit, one for high, and another for a strong Haymaker punch. You can charge up a punch, but the whole system is so limited you'll just be going back and forth on the punches as fast as you can. Parrying can be done by blocking appropriately high or low- you'll interrupt your opponents punch for opportunity to throw your own. And that's mostly how the game works, get an opportunity to interrupt, get as many punches in as you can before they do the same to you, switching back and forth. Granted this is the idea for most arcade fighters, but Facebreaker just seems really empty as far as what you can do.
One really neat feature in the game is the use of Xbox Live Camera that I conveniently received this past week as compensation for having to send in my broke ass 360 for the 5th time. And I was pretty happy to actually bust it out since I was wondering when I would have such an opportunity. So just by taking a straight on and a profile picture of your face and waiting about 10 minutes for it to process your beautiful mug, Facebreaker can do a pretty impressive job of slappin your face on a boxer. I must say, "Facebreaker me" was accurately quite dashing. And if you're not entirely satisfied with how it's looking there are a slew of detailed options for customizing them further. The demo has Kim Kardashian
Facebreaker didn't offer a whole lot to impress with other than the character creation and sharing. The fighting is exactly the kind of boring buttonmashing I'd rather stay away from. But I still would like to see if they have any kind of story or career mode, which I'm sure could be pretty nuts with the roster of bizarre boxers they have. Just being able to create and share such detailed fighters should be a reason to spend at least a little bit of time with Facebreaker, but I don't expect the poor gameplay is going to keep many playing.
I posted a thing earlier about Evel Knievel potentially being one of the most interesting guys ever, which of course someone quickly challenged. So who's the most interesting person? Who do you dig that's done some cool shit?
Been watching this History Channel bio of possibly the most interesting guy ever. The life of a ridiculously popular daredevil is indeed a crazy one. And I think he had to have been actually insane. Or just the biggest genuine badass ever. He beat the hell out of a guy with a baseball bat for writing some trash about him. Escaped from jail. No big deal. His son Robbie was pretty nuts too.
Where are our daredevils? What do we have? Criss Angel or David Blane? We're living in a depression of both daredevils and badasses.
American Icon Evel Knievel- you will never be forgotten.
And of course an American icon deserves a roller coaster.
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