bit-tech News: Facebreaker

news · September 10, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published a review of *Facebreaker* for Xbox 360. If you

could post a link on your site that would be very much appreciated.

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*/In the end, as with all beat-em-ups, audiences are going to polarised

into three camps. There's those who don't like beat-em-ups full stop and

see them as pointless button mash-fests. There's those of us who like

them, but tend to get bored fairly quickly with no story or compelling

unlockables to keep us playing. Finally, there's those who love all

beat-em-ups for the complex strategies they can weave with the gameplay,

the skill of learning all the timings and moves, and through this the

way they can dominate their enemies.

Honestly though, all three parties are catered too with //Facebreaker.

Ostensibly, it //is just a button mash-fest and can all the unlockable

stuff can be had within a good few hours of play. As we mentioned before

too, there's a surprising amount of depth to the combat if you want to

study it and the average battle goes on long enough for that strategy to

be important.

In the end though, though //Facebreaker definitely suffers from some

flaws with the AI. The game isn't especially long in the tooth either

and is very much intended for group matches on a late Saturday night --

an appeal which is ruined by the long matches and fatiguing gameplay.

There's a solid brawler here which is well suited to hardcore beat-em-up

fans, but if you're heart lies with other genres or you want to see some

serious value for money then you may want to look elsewhere because

while //Facebreaker may seem casual, it's anything but. There's nothing

wrong with that of course, but forewarned is always forearmed./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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