Fight Night Round 3

The best-looking boxing game ever made hits stores on Dec. 5, and we've had a chance to step into the ring with a finished version. Fight Night Round 3 combines an impressive roster of boxing greats with a smart, almost rhythmic control scheme - old news to anyone who caught it on the Xbox 360 or any of the other systems it arrived on back in February. But while those versions of the game were fun, visceral and overall amazing, you haven't really seen Round 3 until you've seen it on the » Read Full Fight Night Round 3 preview

We didn't expect to have to write this preview. After all, the 360 version of Fight Night Round 3 just shipped back in February '06 and practically defined the term "next generation". Its graphics and action were so over the top, we figured we'd be lucky if the developers at EA Canada could port them onto the alien PlayStation 3 console within the time limit with only minor sacrifices. Damn, when you're wrong, you're wrong. While this PS3 version of Fight Night is 80% identical to its » Read Full Fight Night Round 3 preview

The word "visceral" describes things that impact the soft internals of a body (particularly those of the stomach or ‘abdomen' to get all sciencey on you) and there's a good reason why it frequently describes boxing. Graphics or physics alone won't get the job done; a good boxing game has to make you feel like you're about to get slugged. EA has a reputation for delivering the experience of professional sports in a way that goes beyond the rules of the game, and Fight Night Round 3 hungers » Read Full Fight Night Round 3 preview