Fight Night Round 4

Game Info

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: EA Canada

Genre(s): Boxing, Sports

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: T (Teen)

Release Date: June 23, 2009

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]

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Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 8.2 (out of 10) based on 46 User Votes

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James W gave it a5:
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?

Gavin E gave it a7:
Career mode is lacking immersion, but it will keep you entertained. Because its all punch control through the analogue sticks your accuracy of what punch to throw is pretty random so the training games become impossible to master, consequently you end up autotraining too much to actually be a superstar. If they could add more character to the career it would score higher but as it stands its actually quite boring. The graphics are pretty good though, however blood and cuts are almost non existent. If they could import THQ's UFC damage visuals, it would be tons better in that respect. Ring entry visuals are a big letdown, and something you will skip through after the first look. Soundtracks are good though as with previous versions. Its just a shame their is really no storyline to your career, i think thats the biggest negative that plagues this game. Having said all that, if you enjoyed FN3, still get FN4 because regardless of its let downs its still a decent game in its own right.

Agostino C gave it a4:
I was pretty excited to get this game and have been playing it religiously in my spare time. I have to admit that most of that play time is due to the fact that I want to justify my purchase, as I quickly found out that the play control is abysmal. Quite often I try to block or dodge but my boxer throws a punch instead leaving me open for a counter-punch. This is frustrating to the point where I almost broke one of my controllers, smashing it on the ground when I had a 12(9)-0 and I lost because the controls were too laggy and inacurate for me to beat the next rank of CPU opponent which had punches much more accurate and quick than I could do even when I was spamming jabs. This game could have been so much more had there been an option for button based punches like "round 3". For some reason I thought there would be one. Had I known this wasn't possible I never would have picked up the game. This is potential flushed down the toilet. I'll still try to beat the game, but in small doses. I have to control my anger by playing no more than 2 matches per session.

Mr. Anon gave it a0:
Perfect graphics mean nothing when followed by some of the worst gameplay I have ever seen. Total Punch Control seems cool at first but is a joke. You'll throw a hook instead of an uppercut, a body punch instead of a head punch and a lot of times, you'll throw nothing at all. Fight Night Round 4 improves on some of the issues from FNR3 ( like making haymakers easier, bobbing and weaving and 'auto-aim' for people who like to like to stay in a leaned position ) but then throws out even worse new problems, like having no work-around to TPC, allowing people to punch spam with no penalty to their stamina and parrying punches is MUCH harder.

David N gave it a9:
You buy fight night round 4 simply if u want to punc the living daylights out of someone without getting into a mess...anyway my point is that your not going to be a hardcore well advised up to speed gamer who nly cares about rpg games and being the top player on modern warfare . You go out and buy this because you have an interest in the sport and want to play as the greatest boxers ever . i bought this game because i want to succeed in the game and it allows you to do that sure its not easy and will take you numerous attempts but the joy that comes from being unbeaten is immense and getting a KO in the first round is what makes this game grat.Playing in multiplayer is intense but to be appreciated its best just to play with a friend and watching the fight unravel while your sitting beside one another .Its a gaming experience. at its best at its purest.buy this game and enjoy it for what it is .A realistic simulation of an intense and exhilarating sport.

Gerard H gave it a0:
I vote this a 0 to offset the hype on this game. It's really a 7.0 at best. The game is graphically superior and the physics are as well. Unfortunately 20 min into the game you can tell that's all they spent their time on. There is NO option for buttons to be used as punches. Total Punch Control is it, but the analog stick is way to inaccurate to control everything. I jab when i should hook. I hook when i should uppercut. I throw to the body when i should be throwing to the face. Most annoying of all is i try to uppercut and throw nothing for 2 or 3 seconds. Just forget about throwing a combo. EA really screwed up by trying to force the TPC on us...2) The computer is way too difficult. In FNR3, I had a record of something like 100-2. I used to be able to play on the hardest setting and get a win. On FNR4, i'm playing on difficulty 2 out of 4 and in 20 matches with the computer, i have only gotten as far as a draw. That's it. I can't tell if the computer wants me to spam punches or try and be tactful, but it doesn't matter cause the computer blocks or dodges like 60% of your punches. At first I thought there was a new emphasis on defense. Bobbing and weaving to get to your man is a welcome addition, but it seems like the CPU counters are 5x more powerful...3) Online gameplay sux horribly! No longer do people have to watch what they throw or vary it up because they can just spam you with punches all round long. You have to either dodge the punches or time the block just right, and when i mean 'just right' i mean split second. Basically you have no hope of doing that consistently enough to beat your opponent without taking too many shots yourself. So basically give up on defense except for the occasional attempt, and analog-control-mash. Seriously. A guy i fought who had a 26-2 record completely killed me twice. Then when I finally gave up on defense and body-punch-spammed with Tyson, I started winning...Point is, anyone who tells you this game is great is only looking at the graphics and is a casual gamer who will have forgotten about this game in a week anyways. This is Street Fighter 2009, boxing edition.

Daniel F. gave it a9:
Joe.c & Luke.h you are both retarded and should go away and play button basher games for clueless players. FNR4 is a big step up from FNR3 in every way, face buttons have gone so you now have to learn the game properly as well as understand that boxing isn't about throwing punch punch punch, there's more of a art for and tactics to it, learn the game and you will enjoy it, don't bother and you will underestimate it. If there is a flaw then its online players who pull out of games just as there about to be out for the count, apart from those idiots the online play is lag free. Yes there could have been more done to the game but EA have done a good enough job to warren t people to buy this game. best boxing game ever unless your a button basher, one other thing is you will find unrealistic is the amount of punches you can throw compared to real life, but hay if it went any more realistic it would become a bore.

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