Despite not getting a GameCube version this time around, Fight Night Round 3 would still have more versions than any other entry in the franchise before it with the game not only hitting the 6th generation but also getting PSP, PS3, and Xbox 360 versions which were tailored to those systems as well as they could be at the time. For most reviewers that was enough, and the game would again get another slew of 8’s and 9’s across the reviewing community. Like clockwork, the following year would see Fight Night Round 3 which kept a lot of Round 2 intact along with some modest advancements in graphics and detail. And with the game getting PS2, Xbox, and GameCube versions it would sell extremely well, too. The haymakers wouldn’t go down smoothly with everybody and some would still prefer the more straight forward fighting of the previous game, but despite that the game would go on to review even better than the last game on average.
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It would also go on to be the only game in the series that would have Floyd Mayweather due to the high price tag on his likeness. On top of that they would add multiple more legendary boxers like Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Robinson, Evander Holyfield and Bernard Hopkins. The game would add additional venues like Atlantic City as well as add clinching and haymakers that could quickly result in an instant KO. Fight Night 2004 would sell well and receive mostly 8’s from the critics, so as logic would follow, more games in the series would be made.įight Night Round 2 would come out the following year and would deliver a different flavor of the last years’ experience. As a franchise Knockout Kings was also fairly popular, so it’s hard to say exactly why the brand was morphed into or absorbed by Fight Night, but regardless, boxing fans were still getting their money’s worth and that’s the most important thing. If Fight Night 2004’s basic ideas seemed familiar to you at the time, then it’s not Deja vu, it’s because much of the game was built upon another boxing franchise that EA had been pushing out just a couple years before Knockout Kings. Most of your movements were controlled by the analog sticks which helped the intensity of a punch of the depth of an evasive maneuver very naturally.īlocking and weaving didn’t look particularly realistic as they had kind of a twitchy look to them, but they were highly functional, and again, for the time it was a neat idea and made for a pretty fun boxing game. It didn’t surpass some of the fighting game heavy hitters of the generation like Tekken 5, but it did hold it own pretty well as a game so heavily and singularly focused on its character models.
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It would feature lots of real legendary Boxers like Roy Jones Jr who was pictured on the box art.īy PS2 and Xbox standards, it was a pretty good-looking game. Fight Night 2004 would be EA’s way of testing the waters with the new franchise on the PS2 and Xbox. Not that they really had much else to work with at the time, but fast forward to the mainline series of EA games that most gamers will recognize today and the complexity takes a massive leap forward. Fight Night for the 7800, Apple 2, and Commodore 64 was a primitive but earnest attempt at a boxing game that basically just boiled down to timing. Most know the series for those 6th and 7th generation games even though one could conceivably argue it really started back in the late 80’s with an Atari 7800 game of the same name. Why is that? What the hell happened to Fight Night? Ten years after the last game in the series was released and not even a whisper of a new game. With over 5 games developed in the series (many more depending on where you feel the series truly started) and pretty decent reception throughout the life of the series, you’d think we’d still be getting entries every now and then, especially with EA’s uncanny ability to keep a series going well past its prime. Even today the facial damage and fighting styles of certain famous boxers is pretty impressive despite the games being a decade or more old.Ĭollision detection and realistic visual representation of the action on-screen were top-notch and had to be for the games to be successful. Many know it today as the go-to EA Sports franchise for ultra-realistic boxing that was somewhat regularly released back in the early-to-mid 2000s. To many boxing fans who also like video games, the perfect gaming analogue to their favorite sport has been the Fight Night series for a long time.
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