Fight Night 2004

Overview

Fight Night 2004 is a 2004 boxing video game developed by NuFX, Inc. It features Roy Jones Jr. on the cover. It is the successor to EA's previous boxing series, Knockout Kings. Four sequels followed, Fight Night Round 2 in 2005, Fight Night Round 3 in 2006, Fight Night Round 4 in 2009 and Fight Night Champion in 2011. Its chief features are a career mode, in-depth and reasonably realistic fighting and an analog stick-based control scheme dubbed Total Punch Control, which was re-used, with enhancements, in the sequels.

Fight Night 2004 received "favorable" reviews on both platforms as reported by video game review aggregator Metacritic. Four-Eyed Dragon of GamePro called it "the victor in all weight classes for this year. If you're into boxing, this should be the only game to pick up and play." In Japan, where the PlayStation 2 version was ported for release on August 5, 2004, Famitsu gave it a score of two eights, one seven, and one nine for a total of 32 out of 40.

GameSpot named it the best Xbox game of April 2004 in review. It was also nominated for the "Best Traditional Sports Game" award at the website's Best and Worst of 2004 Awards, which went to ESPN NFL 2K5.

Game details

Genres

Fighting, Sport

Developer

EA Sports

Publisher

EA Sports

Series

Fight Night

Platforms

Xbox, PlayStation 2

Age rating

ESRB T

Modes

Single player

Yes

Local multiplayer

Yes

Online multiplayer

No

Co op

No

Age ratings

ESRB

T

Release dates

Achievements

AchievementsNo trophy list

Playable today

Playable offline todayYes

Single-player only, with no online features.

Online

Plays offlineYes

Credits

Publisher

EA Sports

Developer

EA Sports

Released

2004-04-05

Age rating

ESRB T

Region

US

Time to beat

about 5.4 hours