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its not out already is it? i thought the demo wasnt gonna come out until two weeks before the release date.
a friend of mine put money down towards it today at gamestop and got a special two week trial of the demo with some special code..

i played a whole lot..

you an be pacquiao and hatton..

it is AWESOME..

you can only box 3 rounds..

it's really realistic and the attributes for the fighters are great.. for example hattons left hand is more powerful than his right and i was banging to the body most of his fights and it was very effective..

you also can get caught with a big shot at any point, and it's not just haymakers.. if you get countered or walk into a punch you can get caught and your health blinks which leaves you in trouble to get knocked down..

pacquiao is fast as hell, and overall both of these fighters mannerisms were great and spot on..

you can also look at the gallery of boxers and it shows their overalls.. i believe pernell whitaker has the highest overall in the game with a 96.. i assume he will be ridiculously fast and effective..
The only thing i'm worried about (from watching the video) is the sheer amount of flush punches you seem to be able to take before going down.

Like EA still have to make it Rocky-like just to sell the game. The video i saw was two heavy set, thick muscle bound fighters square up to eachother throwing a variation of 4 punches....all landing flush, severley knocking the head back without any of them going down. Can you please tell me this isn't the case?

Also i'm worried about the knockdowns. The ones in FNR3 were so unrealistic. People don't sag like that and fall to the floor like a broken thunderbird and then get up at 6. It felt like EA tried to put the extremes of the sport into the action for 3 minutes of every round, where in reality it doesn't happen like that. A fighter may only take a couple of flush punches in a fight....hell it might only take a couple.

With all that being said i've still pre-ordered but my sodding code hasn't come through yet!
You still can take a number of flush shots before things get bad, and as i said you can only play 3 rounds in the demo, but in the 3rd round i was connecting hard a few times and the opponents head seemed to be going down dramatically.. the health meter is a little different.. it's sort of like the stamina bar in a way.. you have your health, but when you get hit, a lighter color of the health bar decreases, and then it goes back to where it started while you're recovering.. the main health bar eventually decreases like normal.. sorry if that was confusing, there aren't two health bars just one that acts like two..

i have a feeling when you're in the higher weight classes, or at least when you're using a big puncher that you can have more flash knock downs and early KO's..

the "get up" system is different.. you don't have to match up the pictures on the screen anymore.. you have to move the analog sticks still though.. you have two bars, a horizontal and vertical.. it's to simulate being wobbly and trying to get up.. the less hurt you are the easier the horizontal one will be to center, after it's centered you push up on the analog stick to stand up.