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…and that could be a good thing. On Friday EA released the first wave of its downloadable boxer packs. The content features Oscar De La Hoya, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, George Foreman and James Toney. It will only be 400 MS Points or $4.99 if you own PS3. I often preach how this DLC epidemic has made game developers lazy, but in the case of Fight Night it comes in handy. In June while speaking with a Producer of Fight Night, he revealed certain boxers are financially out of reach for the game. To put it simple, if you wanted to have fighter A, you had to sacrifice having fighters B & C.

With DLC the playing field has changed. If we were still in the last generation, we would just be assed out and stuck with the fighters released in the “final” build. Now EA has more time to negotiate and maybe even give the boxers commission on each download they get. Now, I have no inside information on this topic, but I’m taking a wild guess that if you cannot get fighter A in the game from start, you were able to find a way for him to get more money by negotiating DLC commission or using some of the retail game sales received to re invest in the new fighters. Either way, gamers win. View the full press release below.

OSCAR DE LA HOYA, KLITSCHKO BROTHERS NOW AVAILABLE FOR EA’s FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4

August 28, 2009 – Electronic Arts announced today that its first downloadable boxer pack for Fight Night Round 4 is now available on the PLAYSTATION® Network™ and Xbox LIVE™ Marketplace. Featuring Oscar De La Hoya, Vitali Klitschko, Wladimir Klitschko, and alternate versions of George Foreman and James Toney, the downloadable boxer pack retails for 400 Microsoft points and $4.99 on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and the PLAYSTATION Network, respectively. Named the Game Critic Awards “Best Sports Game of E3 2009” and having sold over a million units in its first month*, Fight Night Round 4 has been winning over reviewers and fans since its release on June 23rd.

In addition to the boxer pack, EA SPORTS™ announced that a free downloadable game update that enables players to use the face buttons on the Xbox 360 and PLAYSTATION 3 controllers to throw punches is also available now. A new demo featuring the button controls will be available to all Xbox LIVE and the PLAYSTATION Network users by early September. The 10 round demo will feature Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Manny Pacquiao and Ricky Hatton as playable boxers.

Designed with a revolutionary physics-based gameplay engine, Fight Night Round 4 replicates the sweet science to an unprecedented degree of realism. Witness gloves grazing off an opponent as he dodges at the last second, or watch as a vicious uppercut rips through the block of a boxer who turtles for too long. With realistic physics, no fight is ever the same in Fight Night Round 4

Fight Night Round 4 is currently available for the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® video game system from Microsoft. This game has been rated T for Teen by the ESRB, and 16+ by PEGI. For more information, log onto http://fightnight.easports.com. Media can find cover art, screenshots and videos at http://info.ea.com.

*According to NPD data

Written By A.B. Frasier

I don't think outside of the box. Because if I did then that would presume I was already in one. Co Founder Of The Koalition.