Fight Night Round 4

Fight Night Round 4 Review - Does this heavyweight stack up to the hype?

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Fri, 07/03/2009 - 17:41

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Overall Feeling:

A fantastic game that everyone should check out. If you mastered the total punch control system from Fight Night Round 3, go buy this game now because you will love the huge realistic gameplay improvements in Round 4. However, if you enjoyed button mashing your way to victory using the face buttons, you may be bitter about this years sweet science simulator despite it's amazing graphics and gameplay.

The Pros:

Amazing graphics paired with incredible real time physics deliver a visual experience that needs to be seen to believe. A fantastic "Create a Boxer" tool gives you the ability to create, share and download new boxers which can then be imported into the well built "legacy mode". The game also has a great sound track (for the most part) that makes you want to punch someone in the face and watch it over and over in slow motion. Also, there have been huge improvements to the fighting system that boxing fans will love.

The Cons:

Unforgivable loading times when changing appearance settings within the Create a Boxer mode. I'm positive some of the load times seen in this game are just barley meeting SCEA and Microsoft development standards. Also, Those who don't understand that Boxing is not about brute force and expect to spam wild haymakers like FNR3, you may not like this game due to some of the changes. Missing appearances from some big name fighters like Oscar De la Hoya and Evander Holyfield are likely do to legal issues, but still cause disappointment.

ShogunGamer.com Rating :

Fight Night Round 3 was released in December of 2006 and set the bar for boxing games. Amazing cinematic graphics and intuitive game play made this a classic must own title for boxing and fight fans everywhere. Sure, the game play was a little stiff, and the wall between the fighters seemed a bit corny, but it was still the greatest boxing game to have ever been made. In fact, I have continued to play this game regularly with friends at work for the past 3 years since it's release. So the real question is, does Fight Night Round 4 stack up and improve on the last one?

Game Face importing tool explained by EA in the latest Fight Night Round 4 video.

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Fri, 06/12/2009 - 14:56

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Your dreams of punching George Bush in his face can soon be realized in 1080 HD graphics with a 60 frames per second display rate. the "Photo Game Face" tool, which allows players to bring their likenesses (or others) into the boxing game

"It'll be your face that's actually getting bruised, battered, broken, cut and bleeding when you're fighting," producer Mike Mahar says of Fight Night Round 4 innovative tool.

Put your face into Fight Night Round 4 with EA's Game Face tool

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 15:41

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Past games like Rainbow Six and Face Breakers have incorporated a feature that allow you to import photos of yourself, friends or that guy on the bus who smells, slap them on characters and kick the crap out of them. It's pretty fantastic. But if you thought that was fun, then EA's most recent press release will floor you. Literally.

Players will be able to upload their photos to EA's server and create player models based off of them. Not just re-skin a template model, but actually generate face and head shape based upon the photos you upload.

Most Recent Fight Night Round 4 Trailer

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Sun, 05/24/2009 - 20:51

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Here's the latest promo from EA's Fight Night Round 4 highlighting the amazing attention to detail in clothing, physics and particles. The frame rate is double that of Round 3, clocking in at 60 fps. Players can expect to get their hands on the Game June 30th.

Fight Night Round 4 Gameplay Developer Interview

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 23:22

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Let's get right to the point. Fight Night Round 4 is setting it self up to be one of the most impressive games of 2009.

Fight Night Round 3 set the bar for boxing games with it's superb graphics and gameplay. Brian Hayes, the producer for Round 4, has put together a short interview detailing the new physics, graphics and gameplay that will once again put Fight Night on many peoples MUST OWN list.

The game is due to ship for the PS3 and Xbox 360 on June 30th.

New Fight Night Round 4 Trailer

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 10:24

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Today, EA released a trailer detailing some of the newest features and additions you can expect to come across come when Fight Night Round 4 launches on June 30. Some of our favorites include the inclusion of inside fighting to a much more realistic extent, as well as the addition of dynamic blood, sweat and tears. We've included the stunning trailer below.

Fight Night Round 4 Heavyweight Roster

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Mon, 03/30/2009 - 12:42

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With EA returning to the big dance the question on everyone's mind was who would be coming to ring in Fight Night Round 4. Slowly feeding our interest in the sweet science, EA Sports has revealed all heavyweight combatants -- save for one, due to be revealed in the upcoming weeks.

Here is the latest roster update from Fight Night Round 4:

Fight Night Round 4 Gameplay Video

Submitted by Corey Rollins on Fri, 03/13/2009 - 09:21

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IGN has uploaded a new gameplay trailer for the recently announced Fight Night Round 4 and it's pretty much full of what you'd expect: sweaty men getting their punch on in HD.

The games new look isn't the only thing that's been improved from the serries last installment. Electronic Arts has stated they listened to fan feedback from the previous game and have made significant improvements to the games mechanics, controlls, between round mini-games and has even gone as far to say that the new Create-a-Boxer mode wil "eclipse" the one included in Round 3.