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EA returns to the ring with this fourth entry in the boxing franchise. Featuring a re-written gameplay engine, 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 in history, 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.

Genre: Sports

Publisher: Electronic Arts

Developer: EA Canada

Online Play: 2 Versus

Local Play: 2 Versus

June 23, 2009 –
Sequels are always under a considerable amount of pressure to live up to the accolades of their predecessor, but Fight Night Round 4 has the unenviable task of improving on a title that helped shape this generation of gaming. Fight Night Round 3 was many people’s first look at refined HD graphics and what that can bring to a living room gaming experience. Now EA Canada is taking the reins from the defunct EA Chicago and they’re taking plenty of chances with the already-established formula.

They’ve made changes to the career mode, they’ve changed the control mechanics, and they’ve reshaped every move in the game by doubling its speed and adding an all-new physics system. So does Fight Night Round 4 live up to expectations or does it take one on the chin and fall face-first to the mat? Read on for the answer.

I’ll first provide a short-and-sweet answer to the question above: Fight Night Round 4 delivers the best pure boxing ever seen in a videogame. Once you’re in the ring it’s an experience that no other game can provide and it is, in a word, fantastic. Punches fly at an alarming rate, boxers move around the ring while cascading light from flash bulbs streaks across their bodies. Punches land with thunderous sound effects and cuts and bruising are soon to follow. Everything in the ring is driven by the new physics engine and it’s very nearly flawless. There are a few moments when punches that don’t appear to make contact still register as a hit, but these moments are few and far between and don’t overly hurt the experience.

Click above to watch our Video Review of Fight Night Round 4.


When you first hop in the ring to trade blows with an opponent you’ll notice that there are new controls governing the action. FNR4 begins with a helpful tutorial that gets you acquainted with the new moves, but things will still be a little rough in the early goings if you’ve never picked up Fight Night before. I’m not sure if inaccessible is the right word, but there could be a lengthier introduction to the intricacies