Fight Night (video game series)

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Fight Night
Fightnight videogame logo.png
Genre(s) Sports
Publisher(s) EA Sports
Platform(s) PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, iOS
First release Fight Night 2004
2004
Latest release Fight Night Champion
2011

Fight Night is a series of boxing video games created by EA Sports. It follows on from their previous series Knockout Kings , produced for various platforms yearly between 1998 and 2003. The series was well received critically, with the PS3 version of Fight Night Round 4 achieving a Metacritic score of 88/100, [1] and several of the games topping sales charts. [2]

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Games

Overview over titles in the series
TitleRelease Year PS2 Xbox GC X360 PS3 PSP iOS Notes
Fight Night 2004 2004YesYesNoNoNoNoNo
Fight Night Round 2 2005YesYesYesNoNoNoNo
Fight Night Round 3 2006YesYesNoYesYesYesNo
Fight Night Round 4 2009NoNoNoYesYesNoNo
Fight Night Champion 2011NoNoNoYesYesNoYes

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References

  1. "Fight Night Round 4 for PlayStation 3 Reviews". Metacritic . Retrieved February 27, 2016.
  2. "'Fight Night Champion' leads Xbox 360 chart". Digital Spy . 7 March 2011.