The cover displays both Ali and Tyson in accordance to how the fans voted for several months on the official Fight Night site.
EA Sports has kicked off the beginning of its Fight Night Round 4 Community Event in Vancouver, Canada. The developer will be showing new footage of the game, and will give fans a chance to play the upcoming title as well.
As ever with video game magazines, someone reads them and puts it all on the internet, and all the Fight Night Round 4 details from this month's Game Informer are no exception.
EA has told videogaming247 that some official screenshots from the high def boxing fest, Fight Night Round 4, should be revealed in the coming weeks.
"Mike Tyson has jabbed, dodged and hooked his way to lead in the race for who should be the cover athlete for EA Canada's new boxing game -- Fight Night Round 4. "Iron Mike" Tyson currently weighs in at 40.4 percent; while the formidable Muhammad "The Greatest" Ali currently sits at a lowly 17.6 percent. But 42 percent have voted 'no contest' and want both boxers to appear on the front cover. So far only 14,501 votes have been lodged at the official Fight Night website, where you can also vote. "
Kotaku: GameStop managers and the odd journalist have already seen Fight Night Round 4 on the big screen, but come December 14th everyone else will get to see it too. Oh sure, we've seen blurry shaky-cam footage that in no way gives us the proper visuals to over-scrutinise and pick apart and that simply will not do. The world premiere of EA Sports' boxing franchise will hit during the Spike TV Video Game Awards next month. The "ultimate boxing match up" from EA Canada does have at least one thing going for it - the inclusion of video game boxing legend Mike Tyson. His style is impetuous! He wants to eat your children!
IGN writes: "At the GameStop eXpo, store managers and executives were shown a number of titles behind closed doors that will be coming out at the tail end of 2008 and in 2009. One of the games highlighted by EA Sports was their upcoming boxing title, Fight Night: Round 4, which showcased some of the first in-game footage seen of the title. According to N'Gai Croal on his blog, the big terms thrown out to describe the title revolved around physics-based boxing, something called "R.E.A.L. A.I.," close up boxing that was more improved than that of Round 3, and height and reach differences between boxers."
Gameplayer are reporting that EA has finally annonced the details for the next instalment of Fight Night Round 4.
Fight Night fans don't have to worry about the boxing franchise being replaced by Facebreaker anytime soon. This afternoon, EA Sports confirmed today via press release that Fight Night Round 4 is indeed in development and is on the way to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sometime next year.
One of the first real showcases for the 360 and its graphical capabilities was Fight Night Round 3. Instead of going by a health bar, you could just look at your fighter and see how sweaty/bruised/bleeding he was during the fight. It even made the Burger King look beautiful. But to those who thought the series might be done in three just because EA gave the boot to the game’s developer EA Chicago, well, don’t call it a comeback, ...
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