Review: Fight Night Round 4
July 1st, 2009
EA SPORTS’ Fight Night Round 4 is one of the most anticipated games of the year. Building off Fight Night Round 3, one of the best-selling and critically-acclaimed Xbox 360 launch games, Fight Night Round 4 promises to be equally as ground-breaking and revolutionary. With an all new physics-based gameplay engine, truly unique and differentiated boxer styles, the fastest and most true to life representation of the “Sweet Science,” and the most impressive boxer roster ever including the return of the legendary Iron Mike Tyson, EA SPORTS’ Fight Night Round 4 takes video game boxing and fighting to an entirely new level. In Fight Night Round 4, you are only one clean punch away from victory, or from getting put on the canvas.
This game is so sick. Just got it a week ago and it’s all i’ve been doing with my time. I mean, having Mike Tyson in the game was enough for me to like it already, but they’ve improved a bunch of shit form the last one – the corporate ads aren’t as omnipresent and annoying, the game play has less of a pre-determined feel to it, and they actually have some cool music (rad remixes of Tokyo Police Club’s “The Baskerillve’s” and El-P’s “Flyentology” amongst others).
It still kinda sucks to play online because most of the gamers are just random button mashers who over-punch instead of trying to fight realistically, but if you play with friends that actually know about boxing than this game is fun as hell…you can easily emulate Ali’s rope-a-dope or Tyson’s peek-a-boo styles.
Anyway thought I’d share a gameplay video of Mike Tyson vs. Winky Wright that I found : http://displacedbrett.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/fight-night-round-4/