Fight Night Round 4 improves on its proven formula by focusing on intense graphics, smarter AI and better physics. The result is a game worth upgrading to.

Fight Night is like sushi, oysters or stinky French cheese: it is an acquired taste. It is a complex game with a non-traditional control scheme. Once you master the controls, however, you will relish the versatility the scheme provides. The challenge is hanging in long enough to reap the massive rewards in this game.

If you are a Fight Night fan, Fight Night 4 delivers enough improvement to justify upgrading. First, the character models have never looked better. Realistic muscles move under the fighters’ skin and beads of sweat are atomized with every punch.

Second, EA has improved the game’s physics, providing an unprecedented level of realism to the series. Punches land with authoritative force. But if your timing is off, you will only glance your opponent and deliver a partial impact. Knocking your opponent’s mass to the mat feels right. In past games they might have fallen like a rag doll, but now they buckle, fold and topple with a sense of weight.

Third, the opponent artificial intelligence has been improved to force flexibility. As the match progresses your opponent will adapt to your style. For example, after continuous right hooks to the temple in the first several rounds, your opponent will begin blocking or countering you more often. If you don’t switch it up, you will get knocked out.

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