Extreme positives and extreme negatives made this review a fair one, right down the middle a 3. Let me start by saying that my official online ranked record (FLAWED to the extreme) is 647 Wins, 110 Loss, 0% DNF (DidNotFinish). I have been keeping track of how BAD EA Servers just cannot fix the constant plagueing bugs of online disconnects by opponents who is obviously loosing and disconnects and no loss assigned to them and no win attributed to me. I have over 200+ knockout wins that should have assigned to me but robbed. No worries. I never gave up, I keep fighting and now I have a great record ANYWAYS.
Online support is what gives this review a 3 instead of stellar 5. I love this game, I play it -- so addicting but Electronics Arts is just totally irresponsible to address their loyal customer's need -- online server that is able to detect disconnect by opponents and assign a loss to them. How hard can it be to implement some type of security certificate showing that your PS3 game is still in progress while your opponents has exited the game? EA won't even address this problem after 8 months this game has been out. One visit to the EA Sports forum, you'll see what I'm talking about. EA Online support is ZERO in my opinion but I'll be courteous for EA making this great game so a 1. 5 + 1 = 6 / 2 = 3 STARS.
IMPORTANT FACT: FNR4 heavily favors counters, so EA has made counters the #1 most powerful damage dealer and can seriously impair you. Even a haymaker is no where near damaging than a counter. To this end, there are hordes of people trying to exploit counter, using bizarre non-realistic repeating body spinning and blocking up-and-down as fast as they can. Quite the entertainment value watching these scary mouse doing these in front of me. Many new comers gave up because they don't know how to handle these predominant exploit players and get knocked out over and over. Making counter too powerful is one major "realism" flaw EA put in their design but because of the fun factor, they never got rid of it -- so I lived with it and adapted. AFTERALL, it IS a GAME - it has to have something NOT realistic but good for the replay reels. Don't give up because there are ways to fight these cheap bastards and I use a combination of body punches, jabs, haymakers and just use quick fist and feet (distance) to frustrate them. When you fight CPU, you can see the stamina & health bars. Learn what happens when you body hook and watch their stamina go down. Your key to these counter-exploiters is lower their stamina to NOTHING -- making their counters ineffective (minimal damage -- though still buggy as they can still flash knock-out you at a low percentage rate). Learn to increase your landing rate over 60%-70% or higher by using 1 quick jab and back up to avoid counters, you'll get tons of points in between rounds to keep your stamina and health up into the later rounds -- that will MAKE a huge difference in knocking your out of breath opponents. You can also get more points by faking coming to your opponent and just back off and watch him throw 5-6 jabs and body punches in mid-air... quite the entertainment. lowering their punch% and increase your % to avoid punches... you lower his repair points in between rounds and building yours will all add up to a great victory later.
Whether you should buy this game? I would say so if you can put up with online issues -- overall, I would say the PROs must have outweight the CONs as I keep finding myself playing this game almost daily. I have never found a boxing sim this addicting before! It has serious depth into boxing sim than any games that come before it. I used to play Chris Taylor's 4D Sports Boxing back in the early 1990's before he got famous. I have always love boxing SIM. 4 is definately smoother than 3 in terms of graphics frame rate, a GREAT improvement. I remember I love FNR3 but ever since 4 came out, I don't know why but I keep working at FNR4 until I get good at it. BUY it if you're serious about a boxing sim, it's rewarding despite all the downfalls. Don't buy it if you're casual gamer seeking online entertainment, because online is filled with land mines waiting to blow up your limbs and speed up your white hair growth. You gotta want PAIN in order to survive.Get more detail about Fight Night: Round 4.
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