Some of us knew this day would come. Today, EA announced that there will be DLC coming later this summer that will give support to the button mashers users.
When this series began as Knockout Kings, many of us got used to the button control scheme as much as the fact that Ali was on the cover. As a boxing game, it was not the most shrewd ( That title goes to Victorious Boxers) but it had the faces boxing fans loved.
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.
Why do people keep calling others that enjoy the button scheme button mashers? I believe the more options that a game has the more people will be able to fully enjoy said game. I personally miss the button scheme and I personally don't just mash buttons. I like to be able to preform a right hook or left uppercut when I want to. Not accidentally flicking the stick to far down and instead of performing a left hook I do a left uppercut instead and becuase of that mistake I get blocked or countered. I believe this will be a great update to the game that really should have been present sense the beginning.