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Facebreaker trailers: Meet the pugilists

by Alexander Sliwinski on May 10th 2008 5:00PM

Although the Facebreaker character trailers aren't half as amusing as the Team Fortress 2 portraits, we do have hope for the game itself. It would be nice if there was a now-gen "casual" boxing game that rekindled that fun we had while playing Punch-Out back in the '80s.

The latest Facebraker profile (above) is of Steve, your typical fat nerd cliché. We've also placed the video for Romeo after the break. With a September release as part of EA Sports' new Freestyle brand, we're looking forward to getting some hands-on time with Facebreaker at E3. Hopefully the gameplay will enhance the fun and diminish the creepiness we feel in these trailers.

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Tags: ea-sports, ea-sports-freestyle, facebreaker, freestyle, PS3, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (33)

Don't speak, your jaw is about to fall off :O

EA? Pitty I woulda bought it too...

mmm...Romeo has a spaniard accent AND he dances to salsa?...

I know Im being picky, but it would have been cool if they would have given him Spaniard accent and Flamenco or a Puerto Rican/Cuban accent and Salsa...

...but then again, Puerto Rican/Cuban accent doesn't really scream Romeo...lol

The background music may be latino stuff but his moves are all flamenco-ish.

This game actually looks good :o coming from EA it's a surprise.

spanish and mexican people are all the same anyway, aren't they?

See, I HAVE learned something from the media...

I was wondering the same. He's a Spaniard, and the background music is Ozomatli.

Trendy, but not consistent.

I suppose you could colour me interested. Looks pretty good.

I'm not into sports games, but Dropkick Murphys made this video worth the watch.

The characters are nice, I really like the fact that the nerdy ninja dude looks like a giant panda. :D

The character animations look fun too.

Hmm, I wonder what that is a spoof of?

This reminds me: where the hell is Super Punch out for the Wii virtual console??

I second this motion. I'm prepared to do unspeakable things for the release of this classic.

It seems like they are trying too hard...

Wha? I don't get it.

Well it's obviously working, because they spew out quality CRAP when they DON'T try too hard. This game actually looks like it MIGHT be good.

When I first heard about this title, I was thinking that it was going to be along the lines of Ready to Rumble, which to me was the shit back in the day. I am not feeling this to much right about now, but maybe its just me.

This game looks pretty fun, kids!

pretty cool. But what's with the punch + launches into the air moves? They look a little excessive, imo

erm... doesnt anyone remember READY TO RUMBLE? this is a complete rip off/rehash of the franchise and that looked better even on the humble ps2!

AND it had a novel character: Micheal Jackson!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GAEg6nXFKks

This wouldn't even be identifiable as a boxing game if they weren't wearing gloves. Pass.

Ugh... so good to know EA is hunting down nerd references to pound into one of their characters. Amazing how they'd willingly attack the same people they expect to shell out $60 for this game.

Now all we need is some goth rock emo chick cliche. I mean, is EA seriously trolling facebook to get these character designs?

I was more excited for this game until i saw this trailer ... The game looks retarded in my opinion ... I was expecting a fun boxing game ... Not this rubbish

Agreed. I'm wondering why the hell people think this looks "fun." It looks fucking stupid. Punch-Out!! was fun because it had personality like this, but it was also simple enough to pick up and play. This game looks like a nightmare.

So Facebreaker is just a next-gen Ready 2 Rumble Boxing, then? Could be fun. Let's face it, looking like that it can't afford not to be.

That said, they lost me at "Dropkick Murphys". Ugh.