Fight Night Round 4 Video Review

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  • Posted Jun 30, 2009

Fight Night Round 4 enters the ring in this video review with Justin Calvert.

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218 Comments

  • NBA_CM15

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 9:50 pm PT

    this game is great got it for 15 bucks new

  • AkiraMaru

    Posted Dec 16, 2009 6:12 pm PT

    Animation of boxers SUCKS! Boxers moving slooooow and completely unnatural... and fight is so boring. Come on, boxing fight is FAST!!! I miss old good days of Virtua Figher 2 when player need to be incredibly fast. That was real fight game, real tournament between players.

  • DamageIncM

    Posted Dec 15, 2009 6:32 am PT

    Wow, this one looks amazingly close to realism right, as for looks.
    Some moments it seems like a real recording, even though you of course see the "software" to it... but not as many other games that try to be realistic.

  • ShootumUP26

    Posted Dec 12, 2009 9:03 am PT

    Just bought this game, its pretty good.

  • parabellumblues

    Posted Dec 2, 2009 11:19 pm PT

    2:50... Barack Obama? Hah, southpaw!

  • REAL_BALLER_69

    Posted Nov 21, 2009 6:53 am PT

    yo Degama just to let you know 2k did make a boxing game called Prizefighter 2 years ago and it sucked balls you couldnt even cheap shot someone . And i Love how yo can download user created fighters In Fight Night Round 4

  • Degama

    Posted Nov 11, 2009 1:51 pm PT

    I agree with the rating and the only reason i would give it a 8 iz becuz of the graphics and the the realistic knockouts! Although they really tried there hardest to make the animations as smooth as possible and they have made progress, the player movement is still too unrealistic. The gameplay is bad. The boxer's maneuver ability is horrible, u still can't evade quick enough. The Boxer's move stiff and mechanical and all of the boxers still fight identical. Come on! EA sports made how many versions of this boxing series and they still can't get it in their heads that every boxer has their own style. U still can't stick and move in this game or hop in and out, u can't walk with the block. I don't know about any body else but, the power punches hardly ever connect against the computer. 2k needs to make a boxing game because EA just doesn't seem to give a s***. A game could have all the graphics in the world but weak gameplay, i think i'll pass. without the graphics i give this game a 3.5. with it i give it a 7.5 maybe 8.

  • Chester_Diamond

    Posted Oct 27, 2009 2:23 pm PT

    what do u mean u "loved" it, theres no need to speak in past tense the game is still available and easy to get hold of u know. its not even old

  • thesovvolf

    Posted Oct 25, 2009 6:53 am PT

    I loved this game, however it took a bit of getting used to, they'd changed so much since Fight Night Round 3 it was like playing a completely new game. Which is a rarity for sports games from E.A, they mainly consist of releasing the same game every year with an updated roster and maybe one or two new features... this game took a good long while to be made and it's paid off. I do have issues with the create a character mode... It's really hard even with the camera to make my face (Not there fualt) so I have to do some adjusting in the character creation mode.. however I had the player character looking just like me and had it looking perfect just for a message to pop up reading "You have been disconnected from the E.A server" and then to take me back to the main menu with all I'd worked hard on to do vanished in an instant.

  • theplayerqua

    Posted Aug 30, 2009 11:32 am PT

    love the sound track love the game

  • G4MER_2k9

    Posted Aug 26, 2009 11:21 am PT

    love the soundtrack loove the game!

  • Flawless_Gamer

    Posted Aug 20, 2009 11:19 am PT

    this is the best game of this year HANDS DOWN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • BlackShadow1595

    Posted Aug 12, 2009 9:32 pm PT

    Looks pretty good. Ill get it.

  • KeithMacNeill

    Posted Aug 10, 2009 12:07 pm PT

    Fight Night Round 4 is the best!

  • GhostfaceL94

    Posted Aug 4, 2009 12:21 am PT

    Ok this game is good, and now Im playing online, im telling its **cking terrible. Its cheap, and I'm telling you this that YOU WILL LOSE IF YOU LAG. My opponenet was literally 10 times faster than me and his punches was **cking more powerful. In a normal pace, I would beat my friends cuz I can actually predict there punches and succesully counter it, but the laggyness, another story. I gave the game a 8.5 but thats the singleplayer. The multiplayer in the other hand, laggy, uneven, hard.

  • 81shoter

    Posted Jul 30, 2009 3:23 pm PT

    cool!!!! i get my @$$ kicked everytime i play it but i enjoy the whooping!!! LOL

  • GhostfaceL94

    Posted Jul 28, 2009 11:58 am PT

    Anybody else experiencing freezes during Legacy Mode? Im half-way through my career now and when I simulated it, it always freeze on the same date (April 20) This happened three times now. The music is still playing and I can still go and talk to my friends on PSN. By the way I have the Ps3 version.
    please help?

  • Hackers90

    Posted Jul 24, 2009 2:05 pm PT

    awesome, Im waiting to for my xbox from repair to play this game

  • D123F456_gamer

    Posted Jul 24, 2009 1:02 pm PT

    Deserves a 9 gettin it when my xbox360 comes back from repair

  • stealthrodent

    Posted Jul 19, 2009 2:26 pm PT

    don't show pacquiao getting owned, cuz it would never happen

  • deeatoms

    Posted Jul 19, 2009 1:03 am PT

    Career mode gets quite hard. Thers no Kosta Zyu,Mayweather, or De la Hoya, surprising enough. Fun tho.

  • 1stpersondabst posted Jul 14, 2009 6:05 am PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    1stpersondabst

    Posted Jul 14, 2009 6:05 am PT (hide)

    good but not as good as ufc 2009

  • -AlexXxander-

    Posted Jul 13, 2009 6:17 am PT

    THIS GAME IS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO C00L .

  • okbyeee

    Posted Jul 12, 2009 6:54 pm PT

    i think this is underrated. the only flaw that he pointed out was the training, which is understandable, but the game still deserves more than an 8.

  • dario_equez

    Posted Jul 12, 2009 7:03 am PT

    This game is really highly recommended. I just bought it last week and I love it specially the online match. But i hate those stupid quitters, EA sports should find a way to award the fight to the obvious winner.

  • Smighter013

    Posted Jul 12, 2009 3:18 am PT

    Looks good!

  • Figadas

    Posted Jul 11, 2009 6:49 am PT

    @scottishboy,
    yes, you can use photo game face with the playstation 3 eye, and works great.

  • TerrorformZero

    Posted Jul 9, 2009 1:14 pm PT

    Amazing physics... The demo is on Xbox live if you wanna try it before ya buy it, but definitley a must-have!!! Fun to rip on and easy to pick up and play...

  • Killzone23

    Posted Jul 8, 2009 8:53 pm PT

    Best boxing game ever made!!!! Way better than round 2 and 3. Combos are so much easier to pull off in this game

  • faatui06

    Posted Jul 7, 2009 10:42 pm PT

    fight round 4 is real slow with the KO.it is little like UFC undisputed at the end of a good jab or a hook shot.so UFC is better.round 3 really fun then round 4.

  • True_KING

    Posted Jul 7, 2009 4:36 pm PT

    i played the demo of this.... and my hand hurt REALLY bad afterwords, maybe my hand is getting too lazy. i would rather get the UFC game though... or round 3... i really liked round 3 more

  • berio2toru

    Posted Jul 7, 2009 5:17 am PT

    This is a great game. Great graphics, great audio and great game play. Personally I can't play this game for too long a session as it gets quite boring pounding a guy for 10 full rounds @ 3mins a round lol.. Playing online is awesome as well, just that the reviewer has hit the nail on the head in online game play... but saying that, its true for all fighting games. Anyone who is complaining about controls are just scrubs and i have to agree to all you guys out there who are saying they can't believe ppl r being so stubbon not getting the game due to the control system (the only game control that sucked so bad that i put it down was Alone in the Dark T.T)

  • garrysempire

    Posted Jul 7, 2009 1:13 am PT

    hey! pacman didnt do that! what were you thinking! btw the graphics is great!

  • elancion

    Posted Jul 6, 2009 9:36 pm PT

    it obviously does not take much to please or impress some of you rookies.

  • elancion

    Posted Jul 6, 2009 9:31 pm PT

    Man this game reminds me of rock em sock em robots ,bring back the buttons. Button mashing will always exist in fighting games;this holds true even for this game (fnr4). Last time i checked button mashers eventually get picked apart as players become more skillful/familiar with the control mechanics,move sets, and combo system. So ea bring back the button options.

  • lindseyiluvyou

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 7:44 pm PT

    I tried a demo of this i loved it

  • ej1041

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 5:49 pm PT

    GS FAIL!!!!!!!!!!

  • Twix27

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 8:52 am PT

    Definitely want this game

  • shoelaces-4-all

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 3:50 am PT

    Does anybody remember the days when a game would come out and it would take you a bit of practice to get the hango of the controls? But once you did, it was absolutely awesome and you could school anyone who had never played the game before... that is until they practice and come back to kick your ass. yeah, sorry, but I liked those times. Seriously it isnt that hard to learn. Since when do people decide "I will not buy" or "I will not even play this game" because they have a predisposition against the control scheme. You guys are stubborn and hard-headed to think that youre too good for that "crappy" control scheme, and to think that its your "Right" as a gamer to have the controls changed to appease your personal preferences.

  • shoelaces-4-all

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 3:49 am PT

    ive never in all my years playing video games seen a bunch of people being soooo whiny about a control system,let alone one that actually works, just like this one does. The controls are perfect, it requires a bit more skill to properly throw and land the punches that you want to. That should be a good thing. Is everyone just too lazy to learn a new method? Since when do people decide not to play an amazing game bcause of a perfectly functional control system. Most people's description of how poor the control system works is something along the lines of " crappy and inaccurate control scheme" or "Its lame and un realistic". Now please tell me, what is convinving about their arguements? "crappy" and "lame"? That is just mindless name calling. "Unrealistic"? Seriously? how is mashing the face buttons realistic? The chosen directions on the analog are actually logically placed sirs. Grow yourselves some brains or something seriously. Oh and one referred to it as "Inaccurate", again, unless your controller is broken, then it is YOU who is inaccurate.

  • shoelaces-4-all

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 3:25 am PT

    PrestonPastorek
    hey, the analog control is only inaccurate if you push it in the wrong direction. Its you thats inaccurate sir. Your inaccuracy is then reflected in the game. So if you cant use the joystick right, you wont do what you want, which would be bad. If you do use it right, you will be rewarded. Its really easy to use... maybe some practice is in order. The only reason your analog stick would be inaccurate is 1-It is broken, or 2-you arent good at using it ACCURATELY.

  • XanderZane

    Posted Jul 5, 2009 2:12 am PT

    I gave the game a 8.5. If definitely worth buying. I love just about everything in the game. Like the reviewer says though, there are pros and cons.

    Pros: Great graphics and sound. You can create, export and import boxers from XBox Live. Legacy mode is much deeper now. Tyson was finally added. Online has been improved over FNR3. Collision was fixed, so bodies bang when in close and punches can be slipped and dodged realistically now. Punches can be queued up, which can also be a Con in some cases. Lots of quality boxers in all major weight classes. -------------------------------------------------------
    Cons: Counter punching favors the CPU just about every time and don't always work for your boxers. I slipped, dodge and blocked punch perfectly and never get the counter like the CPU. The CPU counters punches with blocks even when their defense was always up. I counted my counters in one match and had about 40, yet I only got about 15. Training games are too difficult, mainly because the scores to get champion is too high when you begin. Scores should have been lowered by at least 1/3. Because I did terrible with the training. I was ranked 21 with an overall rating of 69, but had to fight boxers who were 87 rating or higher and ranked 18-20. My ranking shouldn't climb that fast until my rating is close to the other boxers in that rank. Even if you fight lower ranked boxers, your rank will usual increase, which it shouldn't. The game isn't perfect, but still very fun.

  • ipanda

    Posted Jul 4, 2009 9:46 pm PT

    button mashing is cheating so i prefer if its not available this time, but i don't think they made the graphics much better, the first time i played fight night 3 i couldn't believe how realistic it was but now i feel like the graphics are inferior to the ones in other games

  • T_C_W

    Posted Jul 4, 2009 7:56 pm PT

    OMG harry potter.... wouldn't that be golden to beat the hell out of him

  • everlast219

    Posted Jul 4, 2009 6:35 pm PT

    @battle_chaser9: I'm not even really a Hatton fan, but he's not a joke. You don't win multiple world titles and compile a 45-2 record by being a joke.
    You think you could beat him? pfffffffffffffft..... lol

  • falloutguy318

    Posted Jul 4, 2009 3:39 pm PT

    ha ha he made hary potter.

  • battle_chaser9 posted Jul 4, 2009 3:16 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    battle_chaser9

    Posted Jul 4, 2009 3:16 pm PT (hide)

    I like how they keep showing Hatton knocking out Manni Pacquiao. Get over it, Hatton is a joke, he couldn't even last 2 rounds with the Pac-Man

  • PrestonPastorek

    Posted Jul 4, 2009 1:01 pm PT

    The game would have been way better if it had button support I hate all games that use the analog stick to do everything. Skate, Skate 2, Tony Hawk now, FN4, etc. It should give players the choice at least instead of forcing them to use these crappy and inaccurate control scheme.

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