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Putting a Cat's Face on a Fight Night 4 Boxer

Brian Crecente — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:00:00 MDT

Fight Night 4, like many of EA Sports' titles, allows you to use a camera and their "GameFace" tech to import a version of your mug into the game.

Not content to play as the prerendered fighters in the game, or as themselves, the brothers KindaGamey decided to try and import the face of their cat, Sufjan, into the game. Well, to try and import their cat's face into Fight Night 4.

After loads of tries and messing around with the face recognition software, the two were left with a fighter sporting a, in their words "sad, squat little blotchy face. Certainly not the human fighter with a cat head we would have liked."

I can't help but think that this is the modern equivalent of trying to teach a pig to sing, something that, old adages tell us, shouldn't be done because it annoys the pig and wastes your time.

And in this case, though, the pig has claws.

Fight Night 4 Is Realistically Slimy

Mike Fahey — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:00:00 MDT

The new physics engine for EA's Fight Night Round 4 brings you closer than ever to the true experience of having your head sliding against a large sweaty man's armpit.

It's all well and good when demonstrating boxing with a bald guy. What I was to see is real-time hair deformation as it slides underneath your opponent's underarm, perhaps with a little hair-hooking, just in case the other boxer didn't shave recently. Only then will I be truly impressed. Until then, I'm only slightly impressed.

GameStop Expo Video Explosion - Gears 2, Fight Night 4, Ozzy

Mike Fahey — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:20:00 MDT

You want videos from the GameStop Expo 2008 in Las Vegas? Oh we've got videos. We've got a metric ass-ton of videos thanks to Kotaku reader Neoguyver, who happened to be in the right place at the right time with the right camera. Highlights include the exclusive Gears 2 footage seen here, complete with a sincere message from Dude Huge, who couldn't make it due to being busy making us a new video game, a brief snippet of Peter Moore introducing Fight Night Round 4, Ozzy Freaking Ozborne shilling Guitar Hero World Tour and tons of GameStop managers from all over the country cheering as they are filled with the information to secure pre-sales and therefor their precious, precious jobs. Make some GameStop noise!

Fight Night4 GSMC intro

Fight Night4

Red Faction intro

Ozzy Guitar Hero World Tour intro

Prince of Persia in Action

This post is dedicated to all the assistant managers and "keyholders" out there who sat on their ass while their bosses got free stuff with Ozzy Osborne.

Fight Night 4 Shown Off At GameStop Expo

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:30:00 MDT

Newsweek's N'Gai Croal is at the GameStop Expo in Vegas. And he's seeing stuff. Stuff that , we're guessing, only GameStop managers are supposed to be seeing. Not saying he snuck in, just, you know. Saying. Case in point: there are some games being unveiled behind closed doors. One of them is Fight Night 4, by EA. Details so far are sketchy, as it looks like N'Gai is posting via his phone in the dark under his shirt, but he says that while the visuals aren't much of an upgrade over Fight Night 3's, EA are talking up big improvements in the game's physics and AI. And...that's it. Expect more of an announcement when EA get around to actually making a proper announcement.

Any Fight Night fans in the house? [Newsweek]