OurColony.net

Awesome Game!

Customer Rating:
I was very iffy about purchasing this game, but i would recommend anyone looking for a fun sports game to pull the trigger on this. Graphics are dope. It includes some of the all time great boxers. The career mode is fun. The difficulty is very challenging, which makes the game super fun. BUY THIS.

A huge improvement over Fight Night Round 3. Online fights are a lot more pleasant and fun.

Customer Rating:
Fight Night Round 3 made for a very unpleasant online gaming experience. The reason being that, your opponent would use a ridiculous "arm parry" to stun you and then would follow up with a stun punch. Even worse, many times your opponents would use immature language to taunt you as they used these tactics. This probably caused many people who liked to play the game with the spirit of friendly competition to avoid playing altogether. So what you ended up with was a FNR3 online community of foul-mouthed sociopaths who mastered the "arm parry" trick. Made for a very unrealistic simulation of boxing.

While I was able to win about 2/3 of my online fights with FNR3, when I started to play Fight Night Round 4 online, I found myself losing the vast majority of my fights. It did take some practice and a few sessions with the built-in tutorial to get the hang of the game. There is a parry/counter system but it is not as exaggerated as the one in the previous game, and I've gotten good at it. I like it quite a bit, as it's a good tactic to use against those who mindlessly spam you with endless punches.

Other reasons why FNR4 is superior to it's predecessor are: the commentary track is about a hundred times better. While the anecdotes of Teddy Atlas and play-by-play call of Joe Tessitore do get recycled quite a bit, they are used quite intelligently by the game. As well, instead of the announcer telling you what the referee is doing (such as deducting a point), you actually see the ref. stop the action to perform this action. Knockdowns occur less frequently in this one, whereas in FNR3 it was not uncommon to survive 5-6 knockdowns. Fights also last longer when they should.

One of my most satisfying experiences with FNR4 was when I finally started to improve my game play. In one particular fight, I was playing Joe Frazier against Roy Jones. My online opponent was obviously far better at the game than me, and used Jones' fast feet to box circles around me. Then in round 5, I landed a perfect counter uppercut which knocked him out cold. This was not a lucky punch, but one which I had been unable to land in the previous 4 rounds. If this had occurred in FNR3, my opponent would have gotten into an expletive-ridden tirade about how a "lucky b****" I was. Instead he sent me a message congratulating me on my victory and I acknowledged that I was a bit lucky. I think that FNR4's more realistic take on boxing allows for a more positive online experience--there is no cheap "arm parry" system which drove away the good-natured players from the online game.

listen up

Customer Rating:
THIS GAME IS A MILLION TIMES BETTER THEN THE UFC GAME IF YOU WANT A FIGHTING GAME BY THIS BEST FIGHTING GAME FOR PS3

Fun boxing game, but the online part is flawed

Customer Rating:
I am not a boxing fan to be honest, I don't watch matches, and I couldn't tell you any of the current boxers today if my life depended on it.

That doesn't stop me from enjoying this, and I'm sure that would go for anyone who stops and considers picking this game up.

What the game has going for it: Great graphics, quite realistic looking...very well done. Sound, punches and commentary are very well done also. Basically, everything that you would expect to be in a boxing game is there. Some people seem to have issues with the controls, but I am not one of them.

A cool feature, the ability to upload your own face to a boxer. Works well sometimes....

The only issues I have with the game itself...some of the knockdown animations could be improved, and what happened to swollen eyes and such?

NOW for the bad stuff....the online play. Terrible, completely terrible. Disconnects are rampant in this game, sometimes I haven't even been able to make it past the first round. I thought it might have been just me at first but after checking around, it's the EA servers.

They don't seem very bothered to do anything about it, it's a shame really. I'd give the game a 5 if it wasn't for that.

My first game.

Customer Rating:
Este fue mi primer juego, no soy un gammer, pero me parece que los graficos estan excelentes. Super entretenido.