With any sports video game, it's only as great as the boxers themselves - thankfully, Fight Night Round Four contains a seriously impressive list of fighters to choose from. Take a look at which top fighters are featured in Xbox Fight Night Round Four: Manny Pacquiao, Mike Tyson, Anthony Mundine, Marco Antonion Barrera, Arturo Gatti, Sugar Ray Robinson, Erik Morales, Joe Calzaghe, Tommy Morrisson, Nonito Donaire, Victor Ortiz, Shane Mosley, Marvin Hagler, Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, Robert Guerrero, Billy Dib, Amin Asikainen, Tomasz Adamek, Jake LaMotta, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell Whitaker, Diego Corrales, Yuiorkis Gamboa, Fernando Montiel, Jorge Arce, Paulie Malignaggi, Carlos Monzon, Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Kermit Cintron, Vivian Harris, Corey Spinks, Nate Campbell, Emanuel Augustus, Winky Wright, Sergio Mora, Jermain Taylor, Roy Jones Jr., Vinny Pazienza, Kelly Pavlik, Eddie Chambers, Joe Frazier, James Toney, Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, and Lennox Lewis. You can't help but realize two things, after seeing the list of fighters. The first thing: over 40 boxers to play as - awesome.
While some consider it a cliche, others consider it a fact of life - styles make fights. Punching, defense, stance and hand position are some of the crucial facets that a boxer's overall style consists of. It's the fighter's overall strategy, really, and for that reason, Fight Night Round Four put together eight base boxing styles. First, there is the Conventional Boxer; these guys stay with the fundamentals, then try to set things up with the jab. And then, a different school of thought is the Unconventional Boxer, who throws fundamentals out the window, opting for a more aggressive strategy. Another style is the Slugger, who tends to stick with the power punch. Adopting a different route, the Brawler makes good use of the power punches, but also good use of defensive skills to boot. Xbox Fight Night Round Four features what EA calls a "slippery, in-the-pocket defensive style fighter" the Counter Puncher. Lastly we have the Inside Fighter and Outside Fighter, finis!
hing out the type of Xbox Fight Night Round Four boxing styles. The Inside Fighter attempts to keep the action at close range, moving his head and trying to work the body - hence the name "Inside Fighter." Meanwhile, the Outside Fighter is the reverse of the Inside Fighter, using longer range punches and keeping his opponent at a distance. Maybe it's not altogether fair, to view yesterday's boxing video games with a hypercritical eye. Passing judgment on the earliest boxing video games because they're not as good as today's could seem cruel and ridiculous. On top of that, we run the risk of sounding like a grumpy old relative, talking about how rough they had it when they were gamers. But then again, taking that trip down the sports video game timeline sure can give you a newfound reverence for the greatness of Xbox Fight Night Round Four. Conventional wisdom would suggest that boxing video games would have been all the rage back in the day, it wasn't quite so. This one didn't come out right away, but when it did, it was a landmark moment for
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Not a whole lot happening here. First time I saw this thing, I was not pleased. Was already a bit below the curve, and back then, standards weren't exactly high. Not a lot was happening in this game - punch on the button, hope to punch out your foe as often as you could before time was up. Animation was a bit on the sparse side. There wasn't a lot of room for exciting sound effects, either. The only sound was the little noise it made when you hit your opponent. With the following generation of game consoles, things could only improve. Down the road, a huge game was this one, a bigger, better boxing video game. We'll even go so far as to say that it is one of a small number of old games that people can still enjoy. The boxers shared more in common with a platform game "bossman" than any real-life fighting champion. So, there's no point in continuing the "old games were bad" comparison. They were the first
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The video game world has been rewarded with
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