Posts Tagged ‘boxing’
Fight Night Round 4 gets new DLC
EA has announced that their boxing simulator Fight Night Round 4 will be getting a new DLC pack this December. The DLC will include two new game modes and three new fighters, which are none other than Sonny Liston, Evander Holyfield, and Bernard Hopkins. Among the new modes is Ring Rivalries, which tries to recreate historic boxing matches. The DLC will retail for 800 MS points, or $10.
Fight Night Round 4 getting DLC, button controls
EA Sports has today announced that 2 DLC packs will be hitting the PSN and Xbox Live for their popular boxing sim, Fight Night Round 4.
According to Kotaku, the first DLC pack will hit in early August and will feature a new gym, new equipment, and an Xbox 360 exclusive alternative to Sugar Ray Leonard.
The second DLC pack, scheduled for release in September, will give players the option to use the face buttons for punching instead of the joystick control. This was apparantly after the gaming community requested the addition of the feature from EA Sports.
Punch Out Game Review–A Serious Pain in the Shoulder
Again Nintendo prevails on my deeply ingrained sense of nostalgia by bringing a game that I actually recognized from my original straight-eight days of gaming. See, way back when, before Mike Tyson was a gigantic practical joke / train wreck, he was a professional boxer. And a good one, too! So good that Nintendo commissioned a game around him, dubbed Mike Tyson’s Punch Out. As time went on and Iron Mike’s career went wildly off the rails (and his contract expired, unrenewed), Nintendo then sought a way to re-release their game without paying Tyson. Thus, the game was shortened to Punch Out and Iron Mike was replaced with a no-name called “Mr. Dream”.
And now, Nintendo has once again released its Punch Out line, this time for the all too appropriate Wii. You’ll once again step into the role of the Bronx’s boxing sensation Little Mac, looking to make a name for yourself along with your trainer Doc Lewis. You’ll take on a series of outrageous characters with a series of different boxing styles until you face your final opponent. You’ll also be able to completely replay the game in a whole different way by selecting the Title Defense mode, in which you’ve already won the title but are now out to hold onto it against every boxer you defeated. And they’re none too happy about the loss.
The first thing that I have to tell you, if you’re going to try this game is, for the sake of all that’s holy, STRETCH FIRST. It may not be intuitive—stretch before playing a video game? Preposterous!—but you’re going to save yourself plenty of hurt if you stretch your arms and shoulders before playing. The way this game is set up, there’s two ways to play—with the Wii controller horizontally inclined like a normal controller, or using the motion sensitivity features of the Wii to make regular air punches, and believe me, you will be throwing a LOT of punches. The boxers you’ll face are downright turtles in their capacity for blocking, and you can pretty much count on one in every two or even three of your punches landing. That is, of course, unless you’ve studied a walkthrough or videos or even practiced in advance so you already know each boxer’s pattern.
Each of the boxers you’ll face does have a pattern, and generally, it won’t take too long to learn just where to lean and where to block and where to throw punches like a lunatic, but still, in the intervening space you will be wasting PLENTY of motion. All of this can do horrible things to your arms and shoulders if you’re not careful. Trust me, I still ache from my bout with King Hippo.
But still…I’m pretty satisfied with this game. It’s got decent graphics and excellent background musical effects and fun gameplay that’ll actually be a halfway decent workout. That’s the one really interesting thing about the Wii, really—a lot of their games make good workouts. And this is a workout that’s surprisingly plenty of fun, too, making it one of the best kind: the kind where participants will come back.
Tags: boxing, boxing game, little mac, Nintendo, punch out, remake, Sports, sports game, Super Punch Out, Wii
Fight Night Round 4 dated for June 25th
Despite being previously announced to have a June 30th release date, EA has recently let us know that Fight Night Round 4 will hit shelves 5 days earlier on June 25th.
If you want to get a taste of the action before you throw down $60 there is a multiplayer demo available on Xbox Live.
Again, just to clarify, EA Sports’ Fight Night Round 4 will be released for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 on June 25th.
Punch-Out!!’s secret character revealed
Be it a spoiler or not this is big news — It was recently discovered by a gamer who got their hands on Punch-Out!! that the game’s secret character is none other than Donkey Kong.
Check out the above video to see Little Mac duke it out with the massive ape in a 1v1 boxing match.
Punch-Out!!, a Wii take on the popular NES title Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!, hit store shelves on May 18th so it’s a wonder why the game’s secret character took so long to be discovered.
Read (GoNintendo)
Boxing dummy rigged up for NES Punch-Out!!
You thought using the Wiimote and Nunchuk for the upcoming Punch-Out!! was realistic? Get a whiff of this –The modder featured in the above video took a Slam Mans boxing dummy, outfitted it with a whole array of different buttons making for a completely unique way to play the classic NES title Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!.
Two buttons on the face for left and right face hits, two in the stomach for left and right body hits, and three in the chest area for dodge, block, and start button for use with star punches.
Honestly though, check out the video because you’re going to have to see it to believe it.
Tags: arcade, boxing, hack, mike tyson, modder, nes, nintendo entertainment system, punch out, retro
Punch-Out!! to utilize Wii Balance Board
Up until now I’ve always look at the Wii Balance Board as sort of a gimicky peripheral. I mean, everything you could do with it (besides Wii Fit) you can do with the Wiimote easier. However, the control scheme for Punch-Out!! has recently been reveiled and the Balance Board looks to be a welcome addition.
As you can see, the player can apply pressure to both feet to duck and pressure ot the left or right feet to dodge either way. Pretty cool, huh? Definitely a step up from Wii Boxing which was bundled with Wii Sports.
Punch-Out!! is set to hit shelves for the Nintendo Wii next week.
Read (Kotaku)
New Fight Night Round 4 trailer showcases realism, awesomeness
If you had any doubts that Fight Night Round 4 would be the most realistic boxing video game you’ve ever played, the above trailer should effectively put them to rest.
EA has recently released said trailer that details everything from the ridiculously realistic venues to the ridiculously realistic physics behind the cloth animation all featured in Fight Night Round 4. Now, I wonder what Fight Night Round 5 will look like.
The game is expected to hit store shelves on June 30th for the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Complete Fight Night Round 4 roster leaked
Sure, EA correctly predicted this past weekend’s professional boxing match using the game, but up until now we didn’t even know Fight Night Round 4’s full roster.
Recently leaked by means of a scanned Official Playstation Magazine page, the Fight Night Round 4 roster includes a full 50 fighters for you to choose from.
Not happy with the list? Nestled subtly above the list is a little tidbit that there is a possibility of more boxers being added via DLC.
Full list after the break. More »
EA accurately predicts winner of pro boxing match
Just as they did with the Stanley Cup and Super Bowl, EA has utilized one of their game engines to accurately predict the outcome of a sports match – This time around EA used Fight Night Round 4 to predict the winner of Ricky Hatton and Manny Pacquiao, two boxers who duked it out this weekend.
The funny thing is they were right again, Pacquiao knocked out Hatton in the third round. Then again, EA said the game would last 11 rounds so they weren’t exactly spot on but close enough.
Expect Fight Night Round 4 to hit retailers on June 30th for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Read (Kotaku)
Punch Out!! website goes live
With Punch Out!!’s May 18th Wii release date just around the corner, it would only make sense that Nintendo would put up the game’s official website and today they’ve done just that.
As of now, only Glass Joe is featured on the website with a small gameplay video made available by clicking the stats on the right side of the page.
When the game’s release date gets even closer, expect Nintendo to update this page with more fighters featured in Punch Out!!.
New Punch-out!! trailer showcases gameplay, multiplayer, Giga Mac
Nintendo has recently released a trailer for the forthcoming Wii title Punch-out!!. Contained within the trailer is a ton of never before seen gameplay footage from both multiplayer and single player perspectives.
That’s not all in the trailer as Nintendo has made it obvious that a rather large boxer named Giga Mac is going to play an important role in the game. Perhaps a boss or maybe even the game’s final boss?
Or maybe it’s Little Mac from the first game all hyped up on steroids, I mean he does look pretty damn angry. The game is expected to ship sometime this year.
Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali grace Fight Night Round 4 cover
If you didn’t know, EA gave everyonea chance to vote on who they wanted on the cover Fight Night Round 4, Muhammad Ali or Mike Tyson, at www.AliorTyson.com.
Well, it seems that the ballots were just too close to pick a winner so EA decided to slap both boxing titans onto the cover, pictured above.
Tyson had this to say about the decision:
“I’m honored to be on the cover of Fight Night Round 4 with Ali. He was a special champ, and I have the highest respect for him as a person and a fighter. People always ask me if I think I would have beaten Ali if I had the chance to fight him when we were both in our prime. Now you can figure it out for yourselves. Fight Night puts you right in that ring and gives you the gloves to settle the score.”
Fight Night Round 4 is currently under development over at EA Canada and is expected to ship for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 this summer.
Read (ThatVideoGameBlog)
New Wii Punch-Out!! details emerge
Nintendo has recently released a whole slew of details regarding their upcoming Wii title Punch-Out!!.
Players of the original Punch-Out!! for NES will be familiar with the cast as Little Mac, Glass Joe, King Hippo and Doc Louis just to name a few will all be making a reappearance. A new feature called “Star Punches” will also be included in Punch-Out!! which seem to be your run-of-the-mill special attack.
The biggest announcement, however, has to be the fact that there will be two different ways to play the game. First of all you can play the game using the Wiimotes motion control a la Wii boxing, but the more colorful way would be to turn the controller on its side. What does it resemble? You got it, an NES controller. Players will be able to use the Wiimote on it’s side with the 1 and 2 buttons being used for punches and jabs and the D-Pad for dodging.
The game is due out in May so expecte even more details for Punch-Out!! to emerge before then.