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Fight Night Round 4 PlayStation 3
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88 out of 100

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8.1 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 63 Ratings

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  • Summary: Featuring a re-written gameplay engine, EA Sports Fight Night Round 4 adds a variety of fighting styles and boxer differentiation to authentically emulate the greatest fighters of all time. Pressure your opponent with the brawling inside style of young Mike Tyson, bobbing and weaving to set up powerful hooks and uppercuts. Capitalize on Muhammad Ali's reach, hand speed and fleetness of foot to bewilder your opponent with lightning fast jabs and straights from the outside. For the first time, EA Sports Fight Night Round 4 gives you the opportunity to pit these legendary heavyweights against one another and name a true champ. No fight will be the same with an all-new physics-based animation system 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. Fatigue, adrenaline, footwork and timing all come into play as you hammer away at your opponents. [Electronic Arts]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 47 out of 47
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 47
  3. Negative: 0 out of 47
  1. Playstation: The Official Magazine (US)
    100
    Like many games earning classic status, FNR4 generates repeated standout, jaw-dropping moments, and none of them are pre-scripted. [Aug 2009, p.64]
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  2. Gaming Age
    100
    Fight Night Round 4 can honestly claim to be what Mike Tyson once quoted many years ago, "...I'm the best ever, my style's impetuous, my defense is impregnable, I wanna eat his children..." Well, okay, maybe not the last part, but damn if this isn't a great boxing game! If you are a fan, you are doing yourself a disservice not picking up a copy.
  3. Cheat Code Central
    94
    FNR4 is the most realistic video game portrayal of the sweet science to date as well as being incredibly enjoyable to play. It has improved upon the previous Fight Nights in every way imaginable.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 7 out of 18
  1. Iqbal
    7
    This game is the best boxing game out there. With the new counter punch system and overall smoothness of fighting it is a definite improvement on FNR3. The players reach and height play a big part as you can use ali to stay on the outside and slowly beat your opponent down. No longer can a button basher simply press the hayemaker button and get a KO. That being said the graphics are too cartoony for my liking. The roster is too small and you need to pay to buy fighters that should have originally been in the game. Finally the biggest omission, no Floyd Mayweather.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. JamesW
    5
    I liked the game when I first got it and played it loads. I got quite good against the CPU. Then I went online with my fighter and won a few matches, I was beginning to think I was quite good at it then I realised tactically you can't be any good at this game. Why? because no matter how good you are once you come across some idiot who makes his boxer the tallest heaviest son of a bitch with the longest reach possible you stand literally no chance. Every game I've lost online has not been a tactical battle its been the opposing behemoth repeatedly throwing a cross without stopping to the head and body. You cant seem to get close enough to them to be effective and can't back away from them at all they just keep following you throwing the same punch. I've tried being defensive and ducking, weaving, blocking and dodging throwing counters, I've even repeatedly got in a situation where I'm exploiting the guy with massive counters and when his stamina is down to nothing because he hasn't stopped punching into my block and dodges I've rallied an attack against his body to chip (and chip quite literally is the phrase because nothing happens even though the game says energy levels and health deplete more rapidly when stamina is low!) and still have been defeated. At the end of the round the guy goes to his corner and puts everything into stamina and starts again. If I do manage to stun the larger player nothing I try seems to work to floor him this game drives me nuts. As for the Analogue only controls I can understand peoples gripes and I personally prefer buttons but I haven't had too much issue moving away from them. However I feel the buttons would make the game more accessible to the more casual gamer and I'm sure I've read somewhere that there will either be and update or a pack on PSN and XBL with this option included but if EA choose to charge for this it will be a complete insult. FN3 actually had rooms that disallowed buttons for the Analogue only hardcore fighters and to be honest I don't see why this once again cannot be the case. A patch in my opinion is definitely needed to balance the fighters styles and stamina as well so that people have to think about their technique and fight style until this is addressed I dont feel that I can enjoy this online anymore. Fight night 3 had some amazing tactical battles and repeatedly throwing the same punch against another boxer would render you face down on the canvas withing a few rounds with no stamina why is this no longer the case? Why has EA in my opinion broken a great game and more importantly do the care enough to fix it?… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. LukeH.
    4
    Visually good game but it lacks in gameplay big time. Online is very poor. I played against someone who threw 823 punches in 6 rounds and they barely lost stamina whilst I did little over half that and my stamina was drained. Everyone only seems to pick Mike Tyson aswell. You then get 'body spammers' who doesn't have a slightest clue what to do and just throws the analogue stick around constantly (similar to button bashers on Tekken). The career is not much better either. They will continue to walk into you and push you against the ropes. You cant walk around them as you have your firsts up therefore limiting your movement, if you put your guard down you will get a haymaker straight to the chin. They have got rid of the post match healing system but instead got a stupid points system where you gain points by blocking punches then able to spend your points by 'buying' health/stamina/damage. I wouldn't recommend this game to anyone. Gets boring fast. Its the same old same old from EA. Include a new feature and sell it off as 're-defining gameplay'.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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