The Fight: Lights Out Review

Written by Cole Burton Monday, 22 November 2010 05:00

I've had my eyes on The Fight: Lights Out prior to PS Move's release. It's release came this month, but does it prove itself as the strong move title we all expected it to be? Let's find out.

First up, you will have to create your character. There are not a whole lot of choices to make at the start of the game. However, as you win fights, you obtain more clothing and accessories. After that is over, you are taught how to fight by the actor Danny Trejo. These videos try very hard to make you feel like you really are being barked at by a trainer teaching you the ropes, but they are over the top. And, it's hard to take Danny seriously with glowing pink and blue move controllers in his hands.

Before Danny has you practice, you go through a quick but annoying calibration process that happens before every single fight. You learn all of the basics in this training process, and you learn the more advanced stuff piece by piece later on. The hardest part about this is being told that you CAN NOT MOVE YOUR FEET. Now I know what you're thinking, “Of course you can't move, that will screw up the calibration completely.” This is true, but it is very hard to fight like you are in a real fight without taking one step in any direction. Sometimes I pull my arm back to throw a hard hit at my enemies, and in doing so, I put my right foot back so it's out of the way. Ironic when you think about it, you can't take one step in any direction in this Playstation “Move” game.

To make things worse, the calibration process can't work very well because many times the hits not only miss your enemy in specific parts of his body, but they miss him completely. This is very frustrating and causes you to just waste stamina and pull dirty hits on your opponent. This makes many fights too easy, but it's better than being too hard. One other gripe with the calibration process involves head tracking. It is supposed to make your characters reactions match your own during the fight, however, I have not been able to get anything besides “Terrible” and “Average.” After a quick Google search, it appears I am not the only one with this problem.

The Single Player mode brings you to a variety of locations where you fight a variety of people. By winning these fights, you gain money and skill points. The cash can allow you to buy more clothing and accessories for your character, and the skill points allow you to add strength, stamina, and other stats to your character.

One last thing that must be hit up for sure is the graphics. While the audio is pretty good, the graphics are quite terrible. Or at least the coloring is. Pretty much everything you see will be a shade of black, white, and red. It gets very old very quickly. In fact, for me it happened almost immediately.

Overall, it is great that these PlayStation Move games only cost $40.00, but this one is a big let down and not worth it. It's not the worst game out there, but I expected much more. It is an okay game to sit down and play every now and then, but not for long periods of time. If you haven't bought it yet and were considering it, I recommend you get Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood or Call of Duty: Black Ops for an additional $20.00. This one should hit the $19.99 bin in GameStop pretty quickly.