OXM writes:
"We didn't know there were this many ways to improve one of our favorite games. But a new development team based out of EA's Vancouver studio is, thankfully, not phoning in a save-as sequel to the Xbox 360's best boxing game, and our first look at Fight Night Round 4 surprised us in all the right ways.
"Fight Night Round 3 was a great game," begins Brian Hayes, gameplay producer at EA Canada, "but it benefited from being the first game on next-gen [consoles] that seemed next-gen. We know there's a lot of pressure and a lot of high expectations [for the sequel], but we don't have that benefit." To live up to that, he continues, the Round 4 team is focusing on more authentic boxing. For instance, your boxer "isn't dancing as he enters the ring, and [the] Burger King is not walking him out," grins Hayes."
Fight Night Round 4 swings its final punch, as online servers will be taken down next year according to a press release from EA.
Guess we won't see another Fight Night until next gen at the soonest. Did any notable boxing games come out this gen at all?
Fight night round 4 is still the best boxing game at the moment.
I still pop it in my old Xbox from time to time and nothing beats the feeling of a close fight in the late rounds.
cut the UFC Servers too , some of those grapples look awkward when people would walk in and see 2 guys straddling each other, i tried soo hard to make it not look weird
Round 4 was the best the franchise had to offer. You could find success playing to each fighters strengths and anytime somone wanted to spam a particular cheese i could always find a realistic boxing strategy to counter it. Champion started off pretty good but the game was very exploitable and became a cheese fest. The auto block severely hurt the game as well. If they ever make a new game i hope they look at how they achieved competitve balance in the gameplay of Round 4.
DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members ‘Andreaa’, “airGaming”, “reznoire” and “John GodGames Emus” have shared some videos showing Fight Night Round 4, Uncharted, MotorStorm, Dante’s Inferno, Sonic 4 and Resistance 2 running on the latest version of the Playstation 3 emulator, RPCS3."
Improved 4K visuals, a new generation of boxers and improved multiplayer lobbies…man, that would be great. Until that day comes, Fight Night is going to remain outside of the periphery of the fighting game genre, as the ref slowly counts one of the finest franchises out of the ring.
Fight Night Champion was an abomination - but man, I'd love to see a new gen Fight Night game.