Product Description

Fight Night Round 4 is truly the Return of the Champ. Building off Fight Night Round 3, Fight Night Round 4 promises to be equally as ground-breaking and revolutionary. With an all-new physics based fighting engine, new physics driven animations, truly unique and differentiated boxer styles, and the most impressive boxer roster ever including the return of the legendary Iron Mike Tyson, Fight Night Round 4 takes videogame boxing and fighting to an entirely new level.

• Physics Based Gameplay Engine: No fight will be the same with an all-new physics-based gameplay engine that recreates the full spectrum of true-to-life punch impacts, giving boxers a devastating arsenal of punches, blocks and ring movement. The new physics system allows for missed punches, glancing punches, knockout blows and for the first time ever, rough and tumble inside fighting.
• Realistic Boxer Styles: Fight Night Round 4 emulates the styles of history's greatest boxers like never before. Pressure your opponent with the brawling inside style of young Mike Tyson, bobbing and weaving to set up powerful hooks and uppercuts. Capitalise on Muhammad Ali's reach, hand speed and fleetness of foot to bewilder your opponent with lightning fast jabs and straights from the outside.
• Extensive Boxer Roster: The greatest of all time, fighting in their prime. Fight Night Round 4 lets you create fantasy matchups, such as Tyson versus Ali, and finally settle who is king of the ring. With a boxer roster spanning both history and modern times, the matchup possibilities are endless.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #418 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2009-06-26
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
The champ is here! EA SPORTS challenges you to step into the ring with Fight Night Round 4. This highly anticipated iteration of the critically acclaimed franchise has perfected every jab, slip, and punch in the sport of boxing to bring you the most realistic fighting experience to date. With an advanced physics system, stunning graphics, and deep gameplay and feature enhancements, Fight Night Round 4 is putting the science back in the sweet science.

Fight Night Round 4 has channeled the distinctive looks and movements of over 45 boxers into the virtual ring to capture the true strengths and weaknesses of true to life boxing styles. Every champion has a unique style that defines him as a boxer. Authentic Boxer Styles emulate every detail of the most notorious boxing legends, from their quick moves to their most devastating combinations. Gamers can choose the brute force of Tyson or the indefinable finesse of Ali and use their strengths to overcome opponents.

To become one of the greats, boxers work from the ground up to develop their skills and hone their talent. Fight Night Round 4 introduces the most advanced Legacy Mode for the aspiring fighter. Players learn the basics as an amateur, and then move through the ranks as a pro, building popularity and defeating the competition to finally reign as a champion and retire as one of the greatest of all time.

The award winning Fight Night franchise is making a comeback with renewed strength and style to deliver the most realistic fighting experience outside the ropes. Put on the gloves and feel the glory with EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4.

Customer Reviews

The fourth round of an epic!!!!

ORIGINAL REVIEW

This game is truly, truly excellent!

I looked forward to this game for some time but I must admit that when I first played it with my girlfiend on my birthday I wasnt that impressed. The graphics were superb but the game seemed too random. We both just moved the conrol stick round till one of us got knocked out. This lead me to think that the game lacked the capacity to reward genuine gaming skill. However I was very wrong. The game is very different to round 3 which I was used to playing. It takes time to come to get used to the new conrols and when you do the game is very much about skill in both the two player and the single player modes.

It is the single game (legacy mode) that is the games ace card. The graphics are incredible but the game play is even better. You start off as an amatuer and try to become the greatest of all time over a long career. When you turn pro you start fighting in small, dusty clubs before moving onto tv fights at venue's like the Royal Albert Hall (Royal London Theatre)and eventually fighting at Madison Square Garden and in Las Vegas.
The games physics are what really makes it so playable. Punches connect hard, glance and land on different places on the head causing a variety of different reactions. So no fight or knockout is ever the same.
Its very fun. You can even record and save your guys knockouts or fighting clips and save tem to watch back in highlight mode! This is a brillaint feature that allows you to review your guys career even after he's retired! (harddrive needed for highlght mode!)

My own career has gone very well :) My guy has just won a brilliant 7 round fight for the Middlewight title after 31 fights with 30 ko's. I now plan to unify the division before moving up to Light-Heavyweight :)
Can't wait to continue playing :)

However the game is not perfect (just very close to being lol). The create a boxer option for career mode is not as good as fight night round 3. The options are not great but you can just about create a decent looking fighter if you put effort in. You also cannot change your boxers appearance during your career as you could in FNR3. This is annoying because I used to have fun changing my boxers haircuts for different fights. Yet these are minor gripes and the game is really worth buying especially if your into boxing but even if your not. Cannot reccomend highly enough :)


REVIEW UPDATE

Had to come back and update my review. For as good as this game is the legacy mode has a couple of major flaws that pretty much spoil it. When I first reviewed this game I had just won the title after 31 fights. However another reviewer mentioned that after 40 odd fights the career mode just stops and the game ceases to be fun. I thought he must be wrong becuase the manual says that you can move up two weight divisions and retire when you choose however old your fighter may be. Unfortinately that reviewer was right. I unified the titles at middlewieght, moved up to Light heavyweight and unified the titles there and then... nothing. Just the same fights against the same contenders with no regens. I fort Roy Jones and ko'd him in 3, then in 1 and then in 2. Calzaghe got pasted twice. Thomaz Adamek 4 times and then having become the G.O.A.T I had to just retire aged 28 because I was just fighting the same guys over and over. I researched it and one of the developers has admtted that you can only move up in weigtht once despite what the manual says. In Fight Night Round 3 you could move up twice and there were regular regens to fight for as long as you wanted. In Fight Night round 4 once youve won titles i your second weight division you may as well retire :( The other anoyance is that the top boxers in the game like Roy Jones, Joe Calzaghe and Mike Tyson are only avaragechamps in legacy mode. Joe Calzaghe retired in real life with a brilliant 46-0 (32ko) record. When I fort him in the game he was champ but had already lost 8 times. Same with Jones who had been ko'd five times aleady. Things like this spoil the realism for true boxing fans. So all in all the game is very good but this spoils the legacy mode for me which is why I brought the game. So from 5 stars I'd like to bring it down to 3. The gameplay and detail are great but the game could so easily be made great had they tweaked it a bit b4 release. So the game is very good but is perhaps not quite the epic I originally though it was :(

GOOD BUT NOT THAT GOOD
Having been waiting for this game for years, when it arrived at my door i was on it within seconds.. Fight night round 3 was good but needed improvments. And judging by how long they've been planning and working on it my expectations were high. An hour into it and i'm already having problems with it.
The number of boxers on it is fantastic and the career mode has been improved greatly, although it has a problem. After you reach the 30 fight mark with your boxer (maybe more like 33 or 34 fights) the career mode just stops. Having won the belts in your starting division and moving up in wieght you take on the 3 champions in the next division. Then there's nothing. No more moving up weight. Just constantly defending your belts against the same six contenders. Over and over and over again. I reached the 40 fight mark and became so bored i just retired.
I've heard that EA is going to bring out a patch with the old controls on it in september. And trust me when i say this 95% of the people playing this game will be waiting for it. The new controls just don't work. hitting to the body is all you can do. You don't have time to turn the control stick down and round left or right then up again to throw anything other than a jab or a body shot. Its just to fiddly!
Don't get me wrong this game is fun and i have enjoyed it but it seems to run its course very quickly.
Not really into the online play so haven't actually tried that, although other reviews aren't very positive, nothing but body shots the whole time. But like i say never tried it so that one's up to you.

Would i recommend this game to buy? NO
Would i recommend this game to rent? YES

Fun but predictable

The Undisputed and P4P Champ of Sports Simulations.
This is a better game than I had even hoped. More boxers than ever before; more online options; more depth to the career mode; a vastly improved game-engine and a more realistic all round gaming experience. The total punch system has also been change so that there are more punches available and a vast improvement to fuidity and movement. Not forgetting even better graphics than last time round.

It certainly appears that the developers have thought of almost everything. What really impressed me are the improvements to the online experience. Not only can you play ranked matches just as you did in FNR3; but also you can now create your own fighter and use him in a new online mode which will see this indiviual character rise through the ranks all the way to the online championship (if your good enough). There is one champion in each weight division.

The game engine is significantly different to that of FNR3 aswell and it will take an amount of time to adjust to the new game mechanics. There is no parrying (thankfully) and this time there is no invisible force-feild seperating the two fighters; now you can get it close, get tangled up, or simply use you feet to keep it at long range. This is quite simply the best sports sim' ever and certainly the most realistic.

Also, for the first time Joe Calzaghe, Carlos Monzon, Pernell Whittaker, George Forman, Mike Tyson and Thomas 'the Hitman' Hearns; all make their debut on the Fight Night series. With around 40 fighters to chose from this game should keep any fight-fan occupied for months to come.

I loved all the Fight Night games; but Fight Night Round 4 is in a league of its own, with a vastly improved carreer and online modes. Also the fact that they have a combined caeer and online mode is very impressive and should appeal to any fight fan like me.

Any boxing fan has to get this game.