Kim Kardashian in EA's FaceBreaker

By Tom Bramwell Published 7 August, 2008

We're not sure why either.

American reality TV "star" Kim Kardashian will be included in EA Sports' boxing game FaceBreaker as a playable character.

That's according to GameDaily, which has dug up screenshots and video of her in action - not that she's any stranger to that judging by the Google results we got when we tried to work out who she was. (Update: Video admin ninja Dan Pearson points out that we have the video too. So that's nice.)

Anyway, for reasons that probably have a lot to do with news items like this one, EA is including various slebs in FaceBreaker, which is part of the firm's new "Freestyle" label - designed to produce more approachable games than serious, big-boy fare like Fight Night.

FaceBreaker will be a "simplified, easy to pick-up-and-play gameplay experience that really allows the chance for discovery and to get into more depth of how you fight", senior producer Dean Richards told us when we flew out to Canada to check on its progress recently.

It's cartoony, as you can see from screenshots and video, and hopes to keep up a fast pace thanks to a "Breaker Meter", which unlocks special attacks when you land consecutive punches.

'Kim Kardashian in EA's FaceBreaker' Screenshot 1

Kim (right) and friend enjoy a party. Check out her website for tips on how to get the smoky eye look!

There's also a Boxer Factory for making your own fighter. As GameDaily points out, Kardashian is helping to demo that in some of the assets, but further down it clarifies that she will also be in the game as a proper character.

And if you can't quite place the name, Kim is a veteran of reality show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians", and is a regular in US gossip columns. She looks a bit like Amy Winehouse did before she traded a fork for a pipe.

FaceBreaker is due out for Ps3 and 360 on 5th September, with a Wii version, subtitled K.O. Party, also in development.

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  • Ranger101 #1 4 years ago

    Kim Kardashian got famous for hanging out with famous people. That is her only talent. Honestly, that's not a dig at her - it's actually how she got famous. She literally the worlds best hanger-on/groupie.

  • zoidberg #2 4 years ago

    Does she get beat up? :)

  • viper_h #3 4 years ago

    Welcome to a new age of no-talent whores getting themselves into video games because of their tits.

    First Gemma "Who?" Atkinson, now Kim "Random Stranger" Kardashian. Yay.

  • Raz76 #4 4 years ago

    I gotta ask, is this supposed to be a full price title? Because I played the demo and there is no way in hell that there can be enough content in the full version to justify that.

  • OfficialBlue #5 4 years ago

    She is actually famous for having a sex tape look her name up if you dont believe me!

  • BillyBrush #6 4 years ago

    Riticello - we don't make shit games anymore

    next week - Facebreaker with Kim Kardashian / Peaches Geldof / Paris Hilton

    John boy - there's a turd on your lip


    And amy winehouse never looked that good, she looked like some fat jewish girl before, now she looks like a skag whore - probably an improvement (did her record sales no end of good)

  • Raz76 #7 4 years ago

    Also - beat the living snot out of semi-famous women. Aren't feminists going to have a field day with this one?

  • kangarootoo #8 4 years ago

    "She looks a bit like Amy Winehouse did before she traded a fork for a pipe"

    Heeheehee.

  • asphaltcowboy #9 4 years ago

    For the record, Kim (and Peter Moore) both turn up in FaceBreaker, but it's more the case that they allowed themselves to be photographed for the 'face generation system' for custom characters, rather than being a fully-fledged character of their own, created by the dev's character artists. Even someone who has just played the demo should be able to see this :/

  • Gearskin #10 4 years ago

    She is hot, but she's a total air-head who's only true claime to fame is the "leaked" sex tape of her and rapper Ray J gettin' it 'awn.

    She's in this game because the people who developed it clearly want to punch her in the face. She's actually in the demo along with Peter Moore.

  • sickpuppysoftware #11 4 years ago

    She is hot, but she's a total air-head who's only true claime to fame is the "leaked" sex tape of her and rapper Ray J gettin' it 'awn.
    So, she's famous for sleeping with someone he isn't very famous? Does that make us all stars?

    I tried the face mapping thing on the facebreaker demo. It chugged and whirred for hours before popping out somebody that looked nothing like me and wasn't even the same race. Then just to twist the knife they were better looking.

  • jambolio #12 4 years ago

    Her Dad was OJ "the juice" Simpsons lawyer, which he never done it, he only said he done it so they'd take his cock out of the bacon slicer.

  • superjag86 #13 4 years ago

    Anyone else tried the demo? It's fun for about 2 mins then you realise there's not going to be much else to it - I think it should be a downloadable game really, then it might be worth it...

  • andywilkie35 #14 4 years ago

    i don't know her personally (obviously) but she's a twunt

  • kingdumpalot #15 4 years ago

    She earns geek points for being called Cardassian.

  • SBfistfun #16 4 years ago

    Demo was as shallow as this type of game gets, felt dirty just using my bandwidth to download it

    /runs off to look up video for "research purposes"

  • dudefella #17 4 years ago

    Peter Moore is in the demo, too.

  • Gearskin #18 4 years ago

    @ sickpuppysoftware

    Only if you videotape it and allow the tape to be "leaked" to some dirty distributor, and then sue them for breach aod privacy... and then settle out of court for millions of $$$... like Kim, here.

  • Chaote-Imagicka #19 4 years ago

    Also - beat the living snot out of semi-famous women. Aren't feminists going to have a field day with this one?

    Honestly I'd mopre expect feminists to buy this for a chance at beating up the silly cow up. She's about as feminist as wife beating and Barby.

  • Slikz #20 4 years ago

    I would give her friend the full nelson :p

  • IronGiant #21 4 years ago

    Don't EA realise that this game will be a complete flop.. regardless of what totty is in it :)

    The people who agreed to fund games like this and Baja need the sack!

  • Raz76 #22 4 years ago

    @Choate

    But that would be women beating up women, surely that's okay ;)

    I don't know, I think it thing has a bit of an uncomfortable, sadistic undertone to it. "Break his face, harr harr harr", I know it's cartoony but it's still there. I think they are consciuos about that, that's why they included Peter Moore's face and that EA woman.

  • darc #23 4 years ago

    I thought she was one of the Pussycat Dolls or something. Which shows how much I know about any of the above. Will she now become "that woman who was in Facebreaker"? No, probably not...

  • Gearskin #24 4 years ago

    [link url=http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=R1g1I1wNKkQ
    ]http://www .youtube.com/watch?v=R1g1I1wNKkQ
    [/link]

    Hahaha

  • DAN.E.B #25 4 years ago

    ho ho ho!