Yesterday, Electronic Arts announced that it planned to release a new downloadable-content pack for its boxing simulator, Fight Night Round 4. The pack will be ready in the early days of December for both the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3. The DLC is priced at 800 Microsoft Points on the Xbox Live, while the PlayStation Network will get it for its $9.99 equivalent. The pack will feature some new fighters, but also new game modes.

Three new boxers will become available to gamers as playable characters. These are Evander Holyfield, Bernard Hopkins and Sonny Liston and they will be part of the two new game modes as well. The Old School Rules will take players back to the early days of boxing, when “move like a butterfly, sting like a bee” wasn't part of the sport and fighters punched each other's light out in a far simpler “last man standing” fashion. The other game mode, Ring Rivalries, will allow players to experience some of the famous moments in boxing history and be part of their reenactment.

As a final treat, EA promised to drop the price for the retail version of Fight Night Round 4 down to $39.99 in North America. The price drop will work on both the PlayStation 3 and the Xbox 360 versions and can be considered as a really nice holiday gift from the mega-publisher, since the game proved to be a fantastic boxing simulator that was tearing down sales charts all across America almost six months ago.

The game was greatly praised for its highly improved graphics, not only compared with the Fight Night Round 3 prequel that was released in 2006, but also as far as standards at the moment were concerned. The title features a very well made physics-engine that has contributed a lot to the gameplay feeling. The punches feel very realistic, the ones given as well as those received, and they have really made the game live up to its “simulator” title. Even if the single player was a bit dodgy, with difficult and somewhat tiresome minigames, the multiplayer mode was critically acclaimed for the gameplay and overall experience.