Fight Night Round 4 Demo Impressions

It’s been a fair while since the Fight Night Round 4 demo was put on Live. I haven’t played it as much as I did the Round 3 demo, but I think that’s more down to me being busy within work and other stuff. Fight Night Round 3 is a game I’ve been looking forward to. I played Round 3 and even Round 2 until it practically knocked me out. I even sold Round 3 and then ended up buying another second hand copy later on because I missed it.

Controlly Moley

So the controls have changed, who cares? Well I guess a lot of people who’s mastered Round 3 might be bothered. I thought I was pretty good to be honest but I welcome a change. I don’t welcome it because i think the new control system is more intuitive, more because i wanted a new challenge, I didn’t want to pick up Round 4 and it feel old straight away. Let’s be honest the graphics are great in Round 3 and Fight Night Round 4 is slightly improved, so you want some differences (apart from the new line up of boxing greats).

Reach

Round 4 is supposedly a far more tactical game, and I think that’s an improvement. The demo doesn’t really give you long enough or a wide  enough range of fighters to really get a feel for tactics, however reach, speed etc should matter a lot more this time around. I could certainly see how the new counter punch system make mindless slogging a lot less productive. I couldn’t find parry though, that was one of my favourites from Round 3 as it allowed you to wind up a massive haymaker (WTF is that?).

I’ll certainly be buying Round 4, I don’t hink I can afford not too. Especially if I want to be competitive on and offline.