Fight Night: Round 3 for PlayStation 2 Reviews by Gamers

The game play is excellent. Characters move slower than Round 2, but more realistic to the movements of real boxers. Rival fights sometimes fight too often. Fights go beyond rubber match and this takes away from that realistic feel. The building of character attributes is better, due to the speed increase being solely on combo dummy. However, your character does not get into better or worse shape depending on exercise habits. This was a feature that definitely should have stayed. The fame meter on the stats screen is a good addition, but the rankings should have stayed. I think the game was rushed and should have these key features from Round 2 in this game also. Still a great game as EA Sports makes another game to capture you in that feeling that you need to play just one more fight. I have stayed up many a work night just fighting one more boxer and often one turned into two and two turned into eight. I held on to this game for a month and despite it falling behind in the cards to Round 2, it still is a must play. I will be buying it soon and I recommend playing it at least once.