Edge writes: "It's taken eight years for a new challenger to step up. Wii Sports offered a stop-gap of sorts, but it's EA that will finally revive the genre with a wantonly knockabout cartoon boxing game that hopes to appeal to teenage boys with a roster of excessive caricatures and a large quantity of gratuitous skull-pummeling.
On hand at a recent EA event in London, producer Todd Batty said that the game's characters were designed with two particular criteria in mind: first, they were to appear to be feasible as action figures, and second, they were to avoid all the usual racial stereotypes common to fighting games. With a Russian character named Molotov and witchdoctor called Voodoo it seems like they weren't terribly successful on achieving this second part but, nonetheless, the drawing of the game's characters and their expressive animation is of a standard that tempts clichéd comparisons with Pixar."
The ultimate reason is both shocking and disgusting.
From the article:
"Real Steel is, believe it or not, one of the top 10 best selling games on XBox Live Arcade. Considering the prevalence of the DLC, and the number of people playing, it’s a safe bet that Real Steel has become a surprisingly steady source of income for Yukes."
So a company is continuing to update and support a popular title.
... and the problem is what exactly?
3 new games added to games on demand (albeit average games)
Stuntman
Facebreaker
NFL Tour
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GFB writes: "Facebreaker could have been a spectacular game. I couldn't help but believe that the developers made a genuine effort to create a fun game worth playing. Unfortunately, bad AI and broken elements create an ugly experience that turns most away within minutes of popping the disc in."
