FNR4 Community Event Recap
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The Vancouver Fight Night Round 4 event was already highly anticipated however this was elevated with the release of the Fight Night Round 4 Ali-Tyson teaser just recently. Over the next weeks and months pastapadre.com will be trickling down the awesome features to this upcoming addition to the Fight Night Series. I had the extreme pleasure of being picked to represent pastapadre.com and certainly was not disappointed.
The day started with a trip to Griffin Boxing Gym in North Vancouver. Let me add that I am in decent shape despite not really being as active as I was in my 20’s, so I take going to a gym pretty seriously in that I don’t want to be embarrassed by looking like someone who doesn’t exercise often. Even though we only completed about 5-7% of a full workout, I can proudly say that my whole body is sore today and I probably looked like I don’t exercise often but it was all worth it when Sugar Shane Mosley walked into the gym right before I was about to puke 20 minutes into the workout. From there, he and Contender winner, Sergio Mora were basically giving us all access by answering all kinds of questions we posed.
Sergio Mora also impressed me with his attitude and rag to riches mentality because we probably come from similar backgrounds but he certainly has polished the rough edges he displayed while competing in The Contender. He testified that waking up with a million bucks in his bank account (after having 36 dollars right before The Contender) has given him plenty of obstacles in his path to becoming a World Champion again. It was also apparent that just by hanging out with Shane that he is able to see where he wants to be in terms of being a champion. Both guys were unbelievably approachable and willing to give us the inside scoop on how a fighter trains and thinks before a big prizefight.
The game itself is amazing for being a week into “Alpha” stage and it’s evident from the start that this game is nothing like FN3. The group of people selected to attend also made this an event to remember, especially since most have a deep love for the sweet science. EA did one heck of a job hosting this and I think we were all impressed with the producers and developers willingness to interact with us in a manner that I could only dream of when I was kid playing games on my Nintendo or Sega Genesis. I think it’s amazing that we, the community can shape games into what we want. Stay tuned to pastapadre.com for more updates on Fight Night Round 4!
Thanks to Moz for heading out and covering the event. Details on the game cannot be divulged at this time but will be discussed when the opportunity arises – PP
February 27, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Sounds like everyone was blown away by the game too. I cant wait.
February 27, 2009 at 8:05 pm
The Fight Night fans will not be disappointed at all. I played the game for about 2 hour and it was an Alpha build.
February 27, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Yeah, but you said great things about last year's Madden if I recall correctly and look how that turned out. Robo QB anyone? LOL.
Being invited to community day is great but I think it skews a reviewers perspective a lot.
February 27, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Not sure what you're referring to specifically, I just re-read my community event report from Madden last year and I think it stands up as a pretty fair look at the game. Especially if you go at it from the perspective of how you feel after a single day with it.
March 3, 2009 at 4:53 pm
In All fairness Pasta, I think after the first series of playing Madden 09 especially if you're on defense, you can see that the game is fatally flawed.
And you did say some things that would lead one to believe that game would be solid. That's not saying you were misleading anyone because I don't believe you were. It's just that the community day atmosphere is a tough spot for a reviewer to be in and be able to find the fatal flaws that will ultimately lead to the public finding the game to be garbage.
As a consumer, community days have to be pretty much disregarded, because a lot of what comes out of it is only good for hype, but not for really forecasting what the final game will be like.
February 27, 2009 at 8:27 pm
That comment was more about the PP site and not you Moz since it was Pasta last year.
February 27, 2009 at 8:30 pm
but fight night is always a good game
February 27, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Perhaps, but never a good boxing simulation, and that is what legions of fans are looking for
February 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm
Amen brother, fight night's in-game fighting is second to none….but I'd like to see more sim-type options…
I'm no video game programmer, but can you get a ref in the ring? can you get an entourage? towels? a duel ring announcer team? playing fight night is fun, but nothing like watching it on TV, not even close…
February 27, 2009 at 8:39 pm
Moz, you know it's on when this game drops!
Pasta, what's good, nice work as always on the site
February 27, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Hey man good to see ya, nice job on switching up the look/functionality of your site. Wordpress is a really nice thing to work with.
February 28, 2009 at 1:09 am
sorry I missed your IM earlier. Yeah the game is going to be sweet, still some tweaks needed but going down the right path for sure.
February 27, 2009 at 9:12 pm
So when WILL we get to see the official final build of Tyson? Everytime I see it critisized, somne goes "its not the final yet"
February 27, 2009 at 9:21 pm
We're supposed to see video of the game next week, maybe that will give a better idea.
February 27, 2009 at 9:20 pm
Will this years game have a retarded hip hop theme to it like all the other fight nights? From the entrance music, to the retarded dancing during entrances, to the way the trainers talked, to the menu music, to the ring card girls. Tell me how many black ring card girls you see at a big time fight. Fight Night had a parade of hood rats who looked more like cheap prostitutes then anything else. And Canadians make this game? All the more insane.
Also does the crowd still chant realistic things like "KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL, KILL" and boo overwhelmingly after 5 seconds without a punch thrown? ill continue topose these questions until they can eventually be answered hopefully.
February 27, 2009 at 9:53 pm
now that u say that a i guess fight night has pretty much bena joke the past few years
February 27, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Sounds like you have a personal problem bro
February 27, 2009 at 11:30 pm
So because they were black they gotta be "hoodrats" and "prostitutes?' That's funny that you didn't make any deragatory comments about the white ring card girls that were in the game. I guess they were just "models" and "beauty queens" huh? And mind you, they were dressed the SAME EXACT way as the black women were.
Sounds like you kinda racist . Either that or you're a brotha that hates black women.
February 28, 2009 at 7:01 am
I gotta agree with Latrell, it did look silly.
February 28, 2009 at 1:38 am
Pasta do you know the official boxer lineup? If not do you know how many boxers they will have in the game?
February 28, 2009 at 4:58 am
No I don't, I think its something they'll be revealing at a later date. Its a pretty big deal so I would expect them to try and capitalize on putting the list of names out there.
March 1, 2009 at 7:22 am
True boxing fans know that this will be EA's first attempt at a boxing game.
March 1, 2009 at 6:05 pm
This won't be EA's first attempt at a boxing game!?! I'll tell you this.. the game is going to be incredible. I played it for about two hours.
March 1, 2009 at 8:01 pm
circle is right, yes it will. The rest of the games were more arcade fighting combined with Rocky then anything else
March 1, 2009 at 8:22 pm
What? This will be EA's first attempt at a sim like boxing game?!? Well the producers who are working on Fight Night Round 4 are definitely fans of boxing. I sat down and got into their heads to see where they wanted to go with this game and many of you will be pleased.
March 3, 2009 at 3:59 am
Is it anything like Round 3? Man I hope not.
March 1, 2009 at 8:21 pm
What? This will be EA's first attempt at a sim like boxing game? Well the producers who are working on Fight Night Round 4 are definitely fans of boxing. I sat down and got into their heads to see where they wanted to go with this game and many of you will be pleased.