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Fight Night Round 4 Announced (Mike Tyson returns!)

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EA announced Fight Night Round 4 for the PS3 and 360 earlier today. The title will hit in 2009.

“The EA SPORTS Fight Night franchise has always been synonymous with quality and innovation that raised the bar for the sports videogame genre”, said Kevin Wilkinson, Executive Producer, EA SPORTS. “EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3 was a platform defining game as the industry transitioned to next generation consoles. EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 will change how boxing games are played and measured in the future.”

Featuring a re-written gameplay engine, EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 will add 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, 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.
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we'll see how good this one turns out. Round 3 is still a pretty good game, but they closed down the team that made it...
 
Fuck yeah!

Have bought every single FN since its inception, and FN3 was a step in the right direction.

Can't wait to see this one.
 
1) Why re-write the engine when it was already so so good?
2) Tyson in the game? Psuedo-confirmed?

"...authentically emulate the greatest fighters of all time. Pressure your opponent with the brawling inside style of young Mike Tyson.."
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Is his "style" in there, a protrayal of him, or the licensed fighter? Hmmm...
 
virtuafightermaster said:
Played FN3, wasn't very impressed, the game felt too soft, feels no power when punching.
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My problem with it was more with movement, actually. Thought the punches delivered enough unf, it was the actual transition to each punch, and the way the fighters went about inchin' towards eachother that I didn't like... Decided to skip out on R3 despite how much I enjoyed R2.

Hope they get things back on track with R4.

Oh, and yay @ Mikey.
 
PR:

THE CHAMP IS BACK! EA ANNOUNCES EA SPORTS FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4

Mike Tyson Featured in First Boxing Videogame in Over a Decade

Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 is in development at EA Canada in Vancouver under the EA SPORTS brand. EA SPORTS Fight Night is back with the most realistic "in the ring"
experience to date, featuring some of the greatest boxers in history fighting in their prime.

"The EA SPORTS Fight Night franchise has always been synonymous with quality and
innovation that raised the bar for the sports videogame genre", said Kevin Wilkinson, Executive
Producer, EA SPORTS. "EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 3 was a platform defining game as the
industry transitioned to next generation consoles. EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 will change
how boxing games are played and measured in the future."

Featuring a rewritten gameplay engine, EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 will add 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, 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.

EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4 will be available for the Xbox 360 system and the
PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and ships to retailers in 2009. The game has
not yet been rated by the ESRB or PEGI.
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Unless he's bringing his pals Piston Hurricane and Soda Popinski, this news doesn't really do much for me.
 
Looks like EA Canada is taking up the defunct EA Chicago's slack.
FNR3 left a lot to be desired. It was impressive because it showed what next gen could look like but the gameplay got old quickly and the training stuff really felt tacked on.
 
Awesome! I've been creating Piston Honda in Fight Night since the original. Now it'll actually make sense :lol

I'm just glad to see that we'll be getting both a new Fight Night and Facebreaker sometime in the future.

My only concern though, is that EA Chicago is no more. It'll be interesting to see who handles it and whatnot.
 
Well, my initial thought was "Ooh, Fight Night, Gimme gimme gimme", then I seen the date, 2009, growl, usually EA announces sports games within 6 months of release don't they?, ah well, more time to make the game good. In the mean time, I hope Don Kings prizefighter is worth a knockabout.

Oh, if the US gets Tyson, can we get Benn, Lewis or Bruno please EA? Please? please? :D
 
Hero of legend said:
And WTF? Wasn't there interest in bring Fight Night to the Wii by EA? What the fuck is this bullshit?
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I'm assuming Moore decided that Facebreak would suffice for the Wii audience.
 
Just hope it will have an install option, loading times were horrible on the PS3. Oh, and custom soundtrack too.
 
I was really, really looking forward to this on the Wii. Its dissapointing to be honest. The Wii has yet to see a proper boxing game.
 
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