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TITLE: Fight Night Round 4
DEVELOPER/PUBLISHER/PLATFORMS:
EA Canada/EA Sports/360, PS3
FUN FACT: New this year is EA’s Photo Game Face, which allows players to use their own likenesses (or Gucci Mane’s) in the creation of original characters.
WHY COMPLEX IS CO-SIGNING IT: Unfortunately, last week’s Best of Video Games (So Far) post was filed too early to include Fight Night Round 4 (which officially drops tomorrow). But no worries: By the time ‘09 expires, we’re quite sure that FNR4 will be atop everybody’s year-end list (check the Metacritic.com stats, son!)
Many a wack boxing game has been released in the three years since the last Fight Night—we’re looking at you, Don King Presents: Prize Fighter—but they’ve all been pretenders, not real contenders. Fight Night Round 4 resoundingly reclaims the belt with everything you loved about Round 3—only better. That means noticeable improvements to the Legacy and World Championship modes (including a much deeper single-player career experience and online title fights) as well as subtle refinements to graphics and gameplay, which were pretty damn near flawless already. FNR4 is the best boxing game you’ll ever play, period. So even if you’re gonna be broke for the next few months, know that some Dutches and this game are all you need to kill off summer. Word!
CLICK HERE TO WATCH MIKE TYSON IN FIGHT NIGHT ROUND 4!
The Top 10 Sneakers? Check. The Top 10 Albums? Done. The Top 10 Style Essentials? You already know. Today, we continue our Best of 2009 (so far) series by turning our spotlight on the industry that’s sending a big “eff-you” to the recession. Yup, no matter the state of the economy, video games are still moving big units. (Really, is there a better way to escape our crazy world than ensconcing yourself on a couch and button-mashing the pain away?) This year has seen the return of some all-time classics along with a couple Sony exclusives that almost (almost) make the PS3 worth it. Find out what games we picked and why in the countdown below…
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Slimer? I hardly met her!
As featured in the June/July issue of Complex, the Ghostbusters video game (Capcom–360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PC, DS) is out today and it’s already garnering good reviews. Since there’s only so much we can fit on a magazine page, we’re posting our extended interview with Glenn Gamble, senior artist at Ghostbusters developer Terminal Reality. See below for a gameplay trailer and Gamble’s discussion of the game’s illest weapon, Dan Aykroyd, and why the Infernal Engine is so dope…
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Ethrizzle—the name alone holds godly. Yesterday marked the end of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo (a.k.a. E3) in L.A., where the biggest monsters of video-gaming come together in L.A. to meet, greet, and sell their wares to the press and each other. We’ve condensed the entire convention into this informative post about what you can expect in the video-game world for the rest of this year and beyond. Between Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, who had the best E3 showing? What titles are the most promising for the coming year? And what the fuck is a Project Natal? Find out these answers and the other top things we learned at E3 below…
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As the entire video game industry celebrates the fact that they’re still making bank while most other media industries are crumbling around them, one of the games responsible for the creation of the consumer game market celebrates its 25th birthday this week. And, no, it’s not Pong. It’s Tetris. Even if you’re not a big video gamer—you know, the type with the headsets, gaming chair and desert dick— it’s safe to say that you’ve moved a couple digital bricks in your lifetime.
What started as a Russian sensation created by Alexey Pajitnov and Vadim Gerasimov, turned into one of the best selling video game of all time with over 125 million copies sold since it debuted on an IBM PC in 1984. But more than a game, Tetris is an institution. So as we look forward to all the new iterations of Tetris that have yet to be released, let’s look back at some of the most memorable moments in the block-y game’s history…
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A year ago today, Nintendo launched its WiiWare channel, a marketplace for downloadable games that was Ninty’s answer to the Xbox Live Arcade and Sony’s Playstation Network. Of course, with Nintendo’s lower-res graphics and internal memory limitations, comparing WiiWare to XBLA and PSN is an apples-oranges kind of thing. So no, you can’t expect graphics as with XBLA classics like Geometry Wars 2 or Bionic Commando Re-Armed–but yes, you can still find beautiful art direction, retro gaming nostalgia, and a captivating gaming experience for far less than the cost of a single console game (with decent multiplayer to boot).
Sure, there’s a ton of shovelware in Wii’s usual selection, but WiiWare’s best brings out the wide-eyed stoner kid in all of us. We picked our five favorite WiiWare Games to get you started…
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Each week in the Friday Faceoff, the editors of Complex will have an open debate with one of the other websites in the Complex Media Network on a timely topic. We encourage everyone to chime in with comments about our choices, whether you agree or disagree. Don’t worry, we can take a sneak-diss or two.
Last week, we talked 2009 sneakers with NiceKicks. This week, we’re going up against Planet XBox 360, whose video game guru Eric M. Bush was kind enough to debate history’s best movies that were adapted from video games. It wasn’t easy, because as it turns out, most of them are crappy.
With big-screen versions of high profile games like Prince of Persia and Metal Gear Solid in the works, we have high hopes for the genre’s future, even if it did get off to a rocky start in 1993 with the release of the super-flop Super Mario Brothers. But they haven’t all been bad. Take a look back at the best with our top 5 debate…
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The BIGS 2 cover athlete Prince Fielder has great balls of fire.
Do you miss the clear, the cream and players sneaking off to inject each other in the ass? The MLB’s loosie-goosie steroids era may be over, but fortunately The BIGS 2, which drops this July, has all the juice needed to pump-pump-pump you up. The second installment in 2K Sports‘ arcade-style franchise continues to embrace the superhuman brand of baseball that we all enjoyed before Jose Canseco had to go and snitch on everybody. Like Mark McGwire’s neck or Barry Bonds’s melon, the high-jumping, home-run hitting action is back and bigger than humanly possible.
Complex recently caught a demo of the game at Citi Field, the New York Mets’ new stadium, where 2K has a gaming center and mini wiffleball field set up in the center field concourse. To read more about The BIGS 2 game features and check out the latest trailer, see below…
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20 years ago today, Nintendo’s Game Boy dropped, and it was a wrap. Surriously. There were handheld game systems before that, but nothing was able to catch fire the way this lovable little brick did. 100 million+ units later, it’s a legend. And in honor of the happy day, we took a trip back to pull together as many portable systems as we could find. Check the history, game on, nerds…
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“I know it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart.” Ahhh, who could forget Michael Corleone’s classic lines to his doomed brother in The Godfather II. Well, thanks to Electronic Arts, you can relive all of your favorite Corleone moments in the new Godfather II video game, which ships tomorrow. EA’s first Godfather installment was one of the sleeper hits of 2006, leaving a successful formula for the sequel: violently fun gameplay and the best mafia brand name in the world. In addition to its Corleone nostalgia, GFII emphasizes the building of a true crime family through strategic recruitment and delegation. Like a boss!
EA not only laced us with two copies of The Godfather II (Xbox 360 and Sony PS3) but they also sent us two exclusive, promo-only items—a T-shirt and a hoodie—to give away. We’ve got two GFII trivia questions after the jump, one for the 360 copy, and one for the PS3 edition. Winners will get to choose either the T-shirt or hoodie (see below) to go along with the game. To win The Godfather II prize pack, answer one of the two questions below. Good luck!
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