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Best Buy for Boxing Fans!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you're a boxing fan and understand the ins and outs of the boxing world... You'll love Fight Night. For it's time it has to be the best boxing game ever produced. I saw the game while walking across an aisle in a store and once I played the demo, I was hooked! The only thing missing here is some of the fighters you would like did not sign up to be in the game.. so, sorry no Tyson. Besides that, I recommend this game to anyone who is a long time Boxing fan and does watch HBO Boxing on a regular basis.

chris byrd

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

i love this game, yet at the same time i hate it. For the most part you are boxing normal boxers and its amazingly fun, but sometimes you come accross people like chris byrd who runs from you the entire time and blocks all your punches untill he runs your stamina low enough to drill you in the later rounds. IT [irritates] ME NO END. if i had more patience i would just throw jabs and straights to conserve stamina but im pretty much used to just straight up fighting to see who the better boxer is, not to see who can piss the other boxer off more. over all, however the two player is really fun and so is the create a boxer. it gets four stars because of how fun it CAN be.

To bad they don't let you give zero stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 15
Date: May 03, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the wrost games I've played. Whoever came up with the idea to have the right analog stick as the punch control should be fired. It is the most idiotic and ridiculous system I have ever seen. They should have stuck with regular buttons. Also having you put the image of the ref in focus using the left and right analog sticks to get up after a knock down is plain dumb. Sure the graphics are great and there is all lot to customize your personal fighter with( almost to much), but that wont ever make up for crapy gameplay.
In three words: This game sucks.

great boxing game....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I like boxing as fare as watching it on tv and am a big fan although granted I am not a big boxing video game fan (I've only played Mike Tyson's punchout for NES and Knockout Kings a few years back on the PS2) but if I were I am should I would say this is one of the better ones. I just got it today around 7pm and just had my first exhibition match against The Real Deal Holyfield and won (I'm so glad I won, I met Holyfield when I joined the Army and arrived at my first duty station. I asked for an autograph and he was all stuck up about it, so this was my only mode of retribution). I have to say I absolutely love it and am glad it is in my EA Sports collection.
First off I love the total control with the right analog stick. Though I must confess it gets slippery after a while. it really makes for a realistic boxing match. The graphics and animation are awesome and let me give a personal "Thank YOU!" to whoever designed the ring girls. Oh my GOD, I know they are only pixels on my tv screen but they are real in my mind and that's what counts when you're up at 3 in the morning.
The soundtrack is amazing. When you see the intro movie it's playing "Victory" by Biggie and P. Diddy and it really gets you amped up. Plus most of the songs are krunk (read: Lil Jon, David Banner, Down south etc) so you hyped up even while doing other stuff like creating a boxer; which by the way is pretty deep. It's easy to create a boxer that looks reasonably like you. The game doesn't have Mike Tyson but with the creator engine you can create him easily (they even have his 80's style fade with the slanted part that he had when he was still good) and go through career mode.
I was kind of miffed at Tigga (from Rap City) was the announcer but I warmed up to it. Besides he's unlockable as a boxer so if you don't like him, beat the crap out of him.
I highly recommend this game to boxing enthusiasts or just people who like a good realistic fighter. It is definitely going to get major playing time on my console.

this game is the best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 10, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fight Night 2004 is the best ever. its got pretty good graphics, smooth gameplay, and realistic punches. the use of the right analog stick is a nice twist that makes the game more fun than 2002's button masher. it took me a while in the beginning to get it down but after a while i got the hang of it. you can start a career with any boxer and buy different gloves, pants, shoes, entrance music, tatoos, and mouthpieces. you can also buy different signature punches and taunts. this game is worth it for any true boxing fan so go out and get it!!

Agree 99% with last rating.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 11, 2004
Author: Amazon User

1. Great game!
2. Rap music is insufferable! Get rid of it.
3. Big Tigger needs a different venue -- not boxing. Get a real announcer.
4. Need more big-name boxers and women boxers.
5. Rewards poor. Money is amassed with nothing worth spending it on. Perhaps, like EA sports football games (where special pennants can be played), rewards could add some extra points to skills depending on trunks, gloves, etc.
6. Heavy bag is nearly impossible. More skill areas needed for training.
7. The next verison should allow you to carry over your current boxer.
8. Get rid of the rap music. I said that twice because that alone would keep me from buying a new version of this game.

Love the game.

If you're new to Fight Night, this is good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: March 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I made the mistake of playing the newest fight night before going back to play this. I wanted to see how far they came. Anyway, this game is good if you're just starting out, create a boxer is awesome, some of the boxers get on my nerves, they run around the ring the whole fight, and it's like 'what's the point?'. I HATE, absolutely HATE the way they have you toggle the analog sticks to get up if you've been knocked down (you're seeing triple and you have to use them to 'focus' and bring the images into one) it's a pain in the you-know-what, but over all it's good.

2nd best boxing game ever - I have a blister to prove it

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Behind Mike Tyson's PunchOut, this is the best boxing game I've ever played.

Best Boxing game in the world

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: July 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is frakin awsome. The knockouts are wicked awsome and the graphics are great. Using the analog controls to punch is very hartd to do. But all you have to do is go to the controler configuration and change it so you can pub=nch with the buttons. i f in love this game. I definatly recomend this game to anyone and everyone. I love you. Bye.

Suggestions for future release

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: September 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Fight Night is a superior, thoughtfully made, very addictive game which shines in many aspects. Rather than get into those, which have already been covered by many people, I'll mention suggestions to improve on the negative aspects for the next release. This may read as if I'm trashing the game, but in fact I love it and would like to see these small improvements made to make it even better.

1) The rap 'music' is extremely obnoxious. It probably does reflect the "urban" tastes of some boxing fans, but rap is a thing you either love or hate, so it's not a good idea to alienate so many people with it in a sports game. Thankfully, it can be turned off while boxing, but not before you suffer through P. Dummy's noise when booting it up, every time. This is the worst thing about the game by far; blatant commercialism by EA that serves no purpose. Also, they need to lose Big Tigger as the announcer. This guy has no connection with boxing whatsoever; just another brainless rapper spewing dumb homeboy-isms in a failed attempt to make the game more appealing to teenagers. Get Jimmy Lennon or Michael Buffer to do it; even Larry Merchant would be better than Tigger (although I wouldn't want to see Larry as a boxer!)

2) The "special" punches are the heart of this game, but they're essentially limited to the two that do fast and reliable damage: the lunging varieties. The rest take too long to execute. "Sledgehammer" and "home run" sound good, but your boxer will be hit with 10 punches by the time he swings, and they'll miss anyway. And they don't do any more damage than other specials. They need to equalize the speed of all the special punches, and have the expensive ones that do more damage (what's the sense of paying a hard-earned $2 million for the sledgehammer punch, when it's actually worse then all the rest?) At the very least, they should make those bigger punches have a better chance of a flash knockdown. You may not hit very often, but when you do, it does severe damage or knocks the guy down. I think that was their idea, but they didn't program it very well.

3) I can understand that licensing boxers would be expensive, in some cases. But they need to do more than fill the divisions with the exact same guys. What is Holyfield doing in LHW?? After you spend the time to work your way up in different divisions, you need a better reward than facing the same people repeatedly (and worse, when you beat them, they instantly retire, leaving you to face anonymous slobs for the rest of your career.) And where are people like Golota, Holmes, & Klitschko? Those guys would be glad to be in the game for the price of lunch at McDonalds. EA spent all their budget on rap songs, I guess. Unlockable boxers are missed too; sorry, but unlocking a rapper is just not enough to get excited about. What's next, Snoop Dog as a 300 lb knockout artist? As it is, are we supposed to be thrilled to unlock ugly tattoos, doves, or the latest hip-hop song, for meaningless walk-ins that we all skip past anyway? Terrible ideas. People want boxers in a boxing game, including women like Mia St. John & Laila Ali.

4) They almost got the boxer attributes & training right, but not quite. Too easy to get 100's in all categories, then your guy is maxed out & can't get any better WAY before he reaches the top. The heavy bag is a mindless and poorly executed idea. Also, there should be two more boxer attributes and one more training exercise. Agility is worthless; who cares how fast you walk across the ring? I suggest a Stamina rating for BOTH health & punching, and Instinct/Radar, which can be a factor in dodging (Speed should control offense only). Experience would be good too, controlling late-round fatigue. A computer boxer with high experience would have secret, small bonuses in some categories, & be an especially tough foe. That's how it is in real boxing - Lewis vs. Grant for example.

5) Since it's such an addictive game and you can create your own boxers, they need more variety in the clothing/equipment. Boxers such as Tua & Tyson favor all black trunks & shoes, but they didn't include those. Too many boring white trunks; and from the famous guys, only Holyfield has good-looking trunks. The shoe selection is awful; you can either wear tall ugly Viking boots, or "fashionable" but extremely ugly shoes. And gloves need more colors and designs. As long as they have the memory in the game to give us choices, why not redesign that section and eliminate the hideous stuff? Eliminate the tattoos, & put the designs on the gloves instead of the shoes.

6) All these people who want clinching - WHY? It's one of the worst aspects of real boxing; just watch any John Ruiz fight to see that. How can clinching possibly make this game better? That would be the same as having fighters spit out their mouthpieces, or waiting 5 minutes on a low blow. Leave that tedious stuff out. Also, they need to make the low blows more powerful. You only get 3 of 'em per fight, might as well make 'em count. Why take a chance on a DQ with a punch with no power?

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