I’ve only had 5 mins to play with this update, and of the two i’d say the Facebook one is probably the most useful, even though it’s the social network i use the least. The ability to be able to look at photos is somewhat useful. Whereas with twitter you’re unable to follow any links that are tweeted, so sometimes it’s useless.

Anyway, take a look at some bad quality photos I took of the screen below,

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.