Could've been much better with just a few minor additions to its sleek polished polished style.
Online is fun and addictive while keeping your boxers stats to compare with your friends and other competitors.
The cons with FN Champion are few but are impacting. Online lag sees your opponent freezing in place and then jumping about the screen potentially knocking you out while you struggle to regain control of your strategy and their whereabouts.
The story mode in some difficulty settings is a little too over the top hard to complete. The camera has a nasty way of placing your character on the right side of your opponent/screen occasionally during online bouts, which isn't native as you've studied and played through all modes on the left side of your opponent/screen.
Finally, the controls aren't as responsive or clearly mapped with the right analog stick as they were in some previous Fight Night rounds.
Getting your body shot & head shots in combos together seems lethargic in this Fight Night, as they don't always work 100% of the time, and timing possibly plays too much of a part while online lag cripples players at the same time.
The stick has a very large margin for error because all punches only require a simple flick of the stick now, and all punches are mapped fairly close to each other.
There is no option to remap the face buttons or any other controls.
You cannot gain XP for your boxer in legacy mode, and then move that into online. Online being the only way you can level your boxers skills.
Overall the excitement with this game wore off fairly quickly after completing the veteran story mode to begin with, moving to online. Most matches online are good match ups, and the latency is fine, but every now and then your experience is ruined by a lagging opponent and/or poor match ups. I question this games intentions with the XP character building and skill point character growth when online has a community of around 3000 active members globally (at a time), and online being the only way to level up your boxer.