EA producer talks Fight Night Legacy Mode, full roster revealed

Round 4 sucked, Round 3 was KING.. hope it feels the same as 3.

I've been enjoying the Fight Night series since FN3. This is 1 i'ma get. Looks way better than the others.

Can't wait!

Ken Jeong should be the spokesperson for Microsoft. Then MS & Sony can really battle it out through commercials. Kevin Butler v. Ken Jeong. Who wouldn't want to see that.

No Floyd Mayweather? If he & Pacquiao are never gonna fight in real-life, I was hoping to get a digital bout!

No George Chuvalo?
Never knocked down in 93 fights...and Ali said "He's the toughest guy I ever fought"

Also, he's Canadian. Pretty big oversight considering this is developed by EA Canada.

WE need MONEY!!!!

No Jack Dempsey? How can we do the Dempsey roll then?

This game looks great Look what i found it says if you like you can unlock a new vid.. And read somewhere there were contract issues with some boxers and managers
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David Haye is in this game? Haha
No Fraudley Harrison?

Boo!!!

No Rocky Marciano? No Jack Dempsey?

I call poo poo on this game.

legacy mode in 4 is garbage... im shocked they brought that crap back in championship.... most people i talk to hate legacy in FN4... so why the hell did they bring it back... i dont wanna manage afriggin schedule... just let me fight... oh and the "simulate" in between fights is pathetic... i spend 5 minutes selecting "fight" wait to simulate, wait for the stupid awards, and then have to choose "fight" again... whoever designed that workflow is pathetic and should get kicked in the balls...

Not sure if I like the exp system, but I guess it will add a lot more feeling of progression to the game, instead of pretty much having the same moves throughout, just getting stronger and faster.

Here's a pretty good explanation straight from EA why some guys aren't licensed (from ea forums):

cem_ea_id.Brizzo wrote:It's that time of year again. You win some, you lose some.

I'm not happy about it either. This is what Fight Night and KO Kings has gone through every year and it's never easy. Contracts are signed with fighters for a certain period of time and when they expire, we can't be certain we'll be able to reach another agreement with any of them.

- Some boxers were signed to deals over 3 years ago when things were pretty different, financially-speaking.

- All of the boxers that we lost were contacted, some of them several times by myself personally.

- I'm not kidding when I say this, sometimes we just don't hear back. Even from people we worked with previously.

- I personally had communications with one boxer - and his three different managers - over the course of 6 months.

- Arturo Gatti died under very suspicious circumstances. Sorry that we weren't able to re-do that contract in the wake of that. We would have signed him for an extra 2 years way back if we had known he was going to die.

- Some guys we had to drop because of a lawsuit last year, you might recall.

- Sometimes we have have verbal agreements in place with guys we really want and because of time-pressures we spend thousands of dollars making them. Only to have them make further demands, attempt to renegotiate, or simply fail to send us signed paperwork. So poof! They're off the roster and we just burned that money. I can tell you how much Mike looooooves that.

- Some guys just have unrealistic demands.

Now, I know you probably don't care about this. The game doesn't have some of the guys you want, end of story. But like I've been saying for years, its not like boxing is chock-full of stand-up guys accustomed to a strict code of business ethics - nor is it populated by an abundance of athletes with a realistic perception of their brand value and/or mainstream appeal.

NOTE: Some guys are absolutely great. Very professional and very helpful.

All I'm saying is, we try our best and we didn't make the business of professional boxing an absolute clusterf**.

Oh they got my man Zab Judah!! BROOKLYN!!!

I'm going to be playing as Butterbean all day every day.

I didn't like it because of the controls. Still playing round 3, which i consider the best boxing game yet.

I didn't like FNR4 because of the controls. Still playing round 3, which i consider the best boxing game yet.

its not Robert Duran.... its Roberto "Mano de piedra" Duran