Great game for not only boxing/sports fans, but anyone eles that is into fighting or even action games.
There are 4 basic modes to Fight Night Round 3, quick match, career mode, classic match and finally online mode. Quick match you have you basic sport game match where you pick your boxer and arena and go head to head against a CPU or a friend. Classic mode lets you re-act some classic matches from boxing history. Then there is Career mode and Online mode.
This game really shines in its career mode. When you start up your career mode you will instantly be put into a spot where you can completly customize your boxer... when I mean completely I mean COMPLETELY. This game is so customizable your head will be spending probably 30 minutes to 1 hour making your boxer. Not only that you can buy new utilities for your boxer such as new gloves shorts mouth guards and even taunts to piss off your opponent.
The career mode is fairly long. At the start of your career you will be boxing in a thrashed building with small crowds. You will move on after maybe 2-3 hours of play to bigger arenas with crowds of 10 thousand. Before every match you will have 1 training session with a coach of your choice, you can pick between 4 different ways to train, that each increase a specific part of your boxers performance.
The online mode for this game is somthing that you probobly will not be spending that much time with. If you are a newcomer you will find the online for this game brutally hard, you will rareley find a match that will not be one sided towards you. The good thing is that here is not much lag online.
Fight Night 3 is still a lot like the other Fight Night's with just a couple added moves and and career mode stuff. I found the announcers in the fights were very well done but hard to understand which fighter they are talking about. there is a stupid rag doll movements when the fighters are knocked down, almost as if they were made of jel-o. You have the choice of using the analog stick or the buttons to throw punches (analog stick is more precise)
THE GOOD
-The graphics in fight night are outstanding
-Fun career mode
-Tones of customizations
-Lag free online play
-Tones of boxers to choose from
-controls are great.
THE BAD
-Hard to find out what fighter the anouncers are talking about
-Stupid rag dolly movements when fighters are knocked down
-One sided online matches (if you are fairly new)