Fight Night Round 4 garnered positive reaction from critics for its strategic gameplay and strong multiplayer component. The PlayStation 3 version received an 87.89% and an 88% from review aggregate websites GameRankings and MetaCritic

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 respectively. The Xbox 360 version garnered an 87.36% and an 87% from GameRankings and Metacritic

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 respectively.

GameSpot

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's Justin Calvert praised the game's fast action and its online play. 1UP.com

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's David Ellis commented that the physics engine improved the gameplay, and made punches feel more realistic. GameSpy

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's Will Tuttle noted the game's "stunning visuals", and praised the online gameplay. GamePro

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s Andrew Hayward thought that the gameplay flowed better as a result of the frame rate

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, which ran at sixty frames per second. IGN

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's Nate Ahearn felt that the game delivered "the best pure boxing ever seen in a video game."

Criticisms were mostly focused towards the single player aspects of the game. IGN's Nate Ahearn commented that the minigames found in the legacy mode were too difficult, a sentiment echoed by GameSpy and GameSpot. Giant Bomb

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's Jeff Gerstmann

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 criticized the legacy mode for being wrapped in "layers of unnecessary menus". One reviewer complained of thumb blisters after playing the game, due to the Total Punch Control system.

Roster

Heavyweight

• Muhammad Ali
  Muhammad Ali
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• Eddie Chambers
  Eddie Chambers
  Edward "Eddie" Chambers is an American heavyweight boxer fighting out of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.-Professional career:Eddie started boxing professionally in 2000 at the age of 18...
  
  
• George Foreman
  George Foreman
  George Edward Foreman is an American two-time former World Heavyweight Boxing Champion, Olympic gold medalist, ordained Baptist minister, author and successful entrepreneur...
  
  
• Joe Frazier
  Joe Frazier
  Joseph William "Joe" Frazier , also known as Smokin' Joe, was an Olympic and Undisputed World Heavyweight boxing champion, whose professional career lasted from 1965 to 1976, with a one-fight comeback in 1981....
  
  
• Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Lewis
  Lennox Claudius Lewis, CM, CBE is a retired boxer and the most recent British undisputed world heavyweight champion. He holds dual British and Canadian citizenship...
  
  
• Tommy Morrison
  Tommy Morrison
  Tommy David Morrison is an American heavyweight boxer and a former World Boxing Organization champion. He lost only three out of a total of 52 professional fights. Morrison's nickname, "The Duke," is based on disputed claims that he is a grandnephew of Hollywood star John Wayne...
  
  
• James Toney
  James Toney
  James Nathanial Toney is an American professional boxer who has held world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, and cruiserweight divisions. Toney currently fights in the heavyweight division in boxing and also now competes in mixed martial arts.-Boxing career:Toney's amateur boxing...
  
  
• Mike Tyson
  Mike Tyson
  Michael Gerard "Mike" Tyson is a retired American boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF world heavyweight titles, he was 20 years, 4 months and 22 days old...
  
  

Light Heavyweight

• Tomasz Adamek
  Tomasz Adamek
  Tomasz Adamek is a Polish professional heavyweight boxer. His record is 44-2 .He is the former WBC world light heavyweight champion and the former IBF, IBO and The Ring magazine cruiserweight champion. As of the end of 2009, Ring Magazine has ranked Adamek as the 30th best boxer in the world...
  
  
• Joe Calzaghe
  Joe Calzaghe
  Joseph William Calzaghe, CBE, MBE is a Welsh former professional boxer. He is the former WBO, WBA, WBC, IBF, The Ring & British super middleweight champion and The Ring light heavyweight champion....
  
  
• Roy Jones Jr.
  Roy Jones Jr.
  Roy Jones, Jr. is an American boxer. As a professional he has captured numerous world titles in the middleweight, super middleweight, light heavyweight, and heavyweight divisions...
  
  
• Anthony Mundine
  Anthony Mundine
  Anthony Mundine is an Australian professional boxer and former rugby league footballer.He is the current interim WBA Light Middleweight Champion boxer, former two-time WBA Super Middleweight Champion, former IBO Middleweight Champion and New South Wales State of Origin representative footballer....
  
  
• Jermain Taylor
  Jermain Taylor
  Jermain Taylor is an American professional boxer and former undisputed middleweight champion. He made his professional boxing debut in 2001 and won his first 25 bouts, which included victories over former champions Raúl Márquez and William Joppy...
  
  

Middleweight

• Amin Asikainen
  Amin Asikainen
  "Idi" Amin Asikainen is a Finnish former boxer. He was European Boxing Union Middleweight Champion between in 2006–2007.His nickname comes from the similarity with Idi Amin.-Early life:...
  
  
• Marvelous Marvin Hagler
• Jake LaMotta
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  Giacobbe LaMotta , better known as Jake LaMotta, nicknamed "The Bronx Bull" and "The Raging Bull", is a former American world middleweight champion boxer...
  
  
• Carlos Monzon
  Carlos Monzón
  Carlos Monzón was an Argentine professional boxer who held the undisputed world middleweight title for 7 years, during which he successfully defended the title 14 times....
  
  
• Sergio Mora
  Sergio Mora
  Sergio "The Latin Snake" Mora is a Mexican American professional boxer trained by Dean Campos. He is the former WBC Light Middleweight Champion and also the first champion of NBC's The Contender....
  
  
• Kelly Pavlik
  Kelly Pavlik
  Kelly Pavlik is an American professional boxer. He was The Ring, WBC, & WBO middleweight champion from when he beat Jermain Taylor on September 29, 2007 until he lost his titles to Sergio Martinez on April 17, 2010....
  
  
• Cory Spinks
  Cory Spinks
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• Ray Robinson
  Ray Robinson
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• Ronald Wright
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• Arthur Abraham
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Welterweight

• Emanuel Augustus
  Emanuel Augustus
  Emanuel Augustus is a professional boxer. He fights out of Brownsville, Texas-Personal:...
  
  
• Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez
  Julio César Chávez is a retired Mexican professional boxer.He is a six-time world champion in three weight divisions, and for several years he was considered the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world...
  
  
• Kermit Cintron
  Kermit Cintron
  Kermit Cintrón is a Puerto Rican boxer who is from Carolina, Puerto Rico. Cintrón is trained by Ronnie Shields and managed by Josh Dubin. He is promoted by Top Rank.-Early and personal life:...
  
  
• Miguel Cotto
  Miguel Cotto
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• Vivian Harris
  Vivian Harris
  "Vicious" Vivian Harris is a Guyanese professional boxer who was born in Georgetown, Guyana and now resides in Brooklyn, New York...
  
  
• Ricky Hatton
  Ricky Hatton
  Richard John Hatton MBE, more commonly known as Ricky "the Hitman" Hatton, , is a former British professional boxer, and currently a promoter....
  
  
• Thomas Hearns
  Thomas Hearns
  Thomas "Hitman" Hearns is a retired American boxer. Nicknamed the "Motor City Cobra" and more famously "The Hitman", Hearns became the first boxer in history to win world titles in four divisions. He would also become the first fighter in history to win five world titles in five different divisions...
  
  
• Ray Leonard
• Paulie Malignaggi
• Shane Mosley
  Shane Mosley
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• Victor Ortiz
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• Manny Pacquiao
  Manny Pacquiao
  Emmanuel "Manny" Dapidran Pacquiao, PLH is a Filipino professional boxer and politician. He is the first eight-division world champion; having won six world titles, as well as the first to win the lineal championship in four different weight classes. He was named "Fighter of the Decade" for the...
  
  

Lightweight

• Marco Antonio Barrera
  Marco Antonio Barrera
  Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia is a Mexicanprofessional boxer. He has won numerous world titles in three different weight classes; he is a former two-time WBO super bantamweight , WBC, Lineal, & The Ring featherweight , and WBC & IBF super featherweight champion...
  
  
• Nate Campbell
  Nate Campbell
  Nathaniel Campbell , more commonly known as Nate Campbell, is an American retired professional boxer. He is a former unified WBA, IBF and WBO lightweight champion.-Amateur career:...
  
  
• Diego Corrales
  Diego Corrales
  Diego "Chico" Corrales was an American boxer.He was the WBC, WBO, & The Ring lightweight champion, and the WBO & IBF super featherweight champion....
  
  
• Roberto Duran
  Roberto Durán
  Roberto Durán Samaniego is a retired professional boxer from Panama, widely regarded as one of the greatest boxers of all time. A versatile brawler in the ring, he was nicknamed "Manos de Piedra" during his career....
  
  
• Arturo Gatti
  Arturo Gatti
  Arturo "Thunder" Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer. Born in Cassino, Italy, and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Gatti relocated to Jersey City, United States as a teenager...
  
  
• Robert Guerrero
  Robert Guerrero
  Robert Joseph Guerrero is a professional American boxer of Mexican descent. He is the former IBF Super Featherweight champion and a former two-time IBF featherweight champion of the world. Nicknamed The Ghost, Guerrero's record is 29 wins, 1 loss, and 1 draw, and 2 no contest, with 18 of his wins...
  
  
• Vinny Paz
  Vinny Paz
  Vinny Paz, formerly Vinny Pazienza is an Italian-American former boxer and world champion in the lightweight and light middleweight weight classes...
  
  
• Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker
  Pernell Whitaker , nicknamed "Sweet Pea", is a professional boxing trainer and retired American professional boxer...
  
  

Featherweight

• Yuriorkis Gamboa
• Erik Morales
  Erik Morales
  Érik Isaac Morales Elvira is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the first Mexican born boxer in history to win a world title in four weight classes and is the current WBC Light Welterweight Champion...
  
  

Bantamweight

• Billy Dib
  Billy Dib
  Billy "The Kid" Dib is an Australian professional boxer. He is the current IBF Featherweight Champion. He is the former IBO super featherweight champion.-Early years:Bilal Dib was born on 17 August 1985 at Kogarah Hospital in Sydney, Australia...
  
  
• Fernando Montiel
  Fernando Montiel
  Fernando Montiel Martínez is a Mexican professional boxer in the Bantamweight division. Fernando is a former WBO Flyweight, WBO Super Flyweight and WBO and WBC Bantamweight champion.-Early life:...
  
  

Flyweight

• Jorge Arce
  Jorge Arce
  Jorge Armando Arce Armenta is a Mexican professional boxer. Arce is the former WBO World Light Flyweight, WBC World Light Flyweight, Interim WBC World Flyweight, Interim WBA World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Flyweight, WBO World Super Bantamweight, and is the current WBO World Bantamweight...
  
  
• Nonito Donaire
  Nonito Donaire
  Nonito Donaire, Jr. is a Filipino-American professional boxer, who is widely known as "The Filipino Flash." He is a three-division world champion, having won five titles across three different boxing weight classes. He is a known switch-hitter with the ability to fight either southpaw or orthodox...
  
  

External links

• Fight Night Round 4 Official Game Page
• EA SPORTS Fight Night Round 4