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| With any sports video game, it's only as great as the | | | | up with the jab. And then, a different school of thought |
| boxers themselves - thankfully, Fight Night Round Four | | | | is the Unconventional Boxer, who throws fundamentals |
| contains a seriously impressive list of fighters to | | | | out the window, opting for a more aggressive strategy. |
| choose from. Take a look at which top fighters are | | | | Another style is the Slugger, who tends to stick with |
| featured in Xbox Fight Night Round Four: Manny | | | | the power punch. Adopting a different route, the |
| Pacquiao, Mike Tyson, Anthony Mundine, Marco | | | | Brawler makes good use of the power punches, but |
| Antonion Barrera, Arturo Gatti, Sugar Ray Robinson, | | | | also good use of defensive skills to boot. Xbox Fight |
| Erik Morales, Joe Calzaghe, Tommy Morrisson, Nonito | | | | Night Round Four features what EA calls a "slippery, |
| Donaire, Victor Ortiz, Shane Mosley, Marvin Hagler, | | | | in-the-pocket defensive style fighter" -- the Counter |
| Roberto Duran, Sugar Ray Leonard, Thomas Hearns, | | | | Puncher. Lastly we have the Inside Fighter and Outside |
| Robert Guerrero, Billy Dib, Amin Asikainen, Tomasz | | | | Fighter, finis!hing out the type of Xbox Fight Night |
| Adamek, Jake LaMotta, Julio Cesar Chavez, Pernell | | | | Round Four boxing styles. The Inside Fighter attempts |
| Whitaker, Diego Corrales, Yuiorkis Gamboa, Fernando | | | | to keep the action at close range, moving his head and |
| Montiel, Jorge Arce, Paulie Malignaggi, Carlos Monzon, | | | | trying to work the body - hence the name "Inside |
| Ricky Hatton, Miguel Cotto, Kermit Cintron, Vivian | | | | Fighter." Meanwhile, the Outside Fighter is the reverse |
| Harris, Corey Spinks, Nate Campbell, Emanuel | | | | of the Inside Fighter, using longer range punches and |
| Augustus, Winky Wright, Sergio Mora, Jermain Taylor, | | | | keeping his opponent at a distance. Maybe it's not |
| Roy Jones Jr., Vinny Pazienza, Kelly Pavlik, Eddie | | | | altogether fair, to view yesterday's boxing video |
| Chambers, Joe Frazier, James Toney, Muhammad Ali, | | | | games with a hypercritical eye. Passing judgment on |
| George Foreman, and Lennox Lewis. You can't help | | | | the earliest boxing video games because they're not |
| but realize two things, after seeing the list of fighters. | | | | as good as today's could seem cruel and ridiculous. On |
| The first thing: over 40 boxers to play as - awesome. | | | | top of that, we run the risk of sounding like a grumpy |
| While some consider it a cliche, others consider it a | | | | old relative, talking about how rough they had it when |
| fact of life - styles make fights. Punching, defense, | | | | they were gamers. But then again, taking that trip |
| stance and hand position are some of the crucial | | | | down the sports video game timeline sure can give |
| facets that a boxer's overall style consists of. It's the | | | | you a newfound reverence for the greatness of |
| fighter's overall strategy, really, and for that reason, | | | | Xbox Fight Night Round Four. Conventional wisdom |
| Fight Night Round Four put together eight base boxing | | | | would suggest that boxing video games would have |
| styles. First, there is the Conventional Boxer; these | | | | been all the rage back in the day, it wasn't quite so. |