EA has announced that Fight Night Round 4, the next title in their long-standing boxing series, will be shipping worldwide on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this summer.

The date reveal came during EA’s announcement that both Mike Tyson and Muhammed Ali will feature on the game’s cover as a result of fans voting on AliorTyson.com.

“I’m honoured to be on the cover of Fight Night Round 4 with Ali. He was a special champ, and I have the highest respect for him as a person and a fighter” said Tyson. “People always ask me if I think I would have beaten Ali if I had the chance to fight him when we were both in our prime. Now you can figure it out for yourselves. Fight Night puts you right in that ring and gives you the gloves to settle the score.”

Fight Night Round 4 promises to “revolutionise the fighting genre” with its all new physics-based gameplay engine that “brings the most authentic interpretation of the sweet science to the videogame world.”

EA also revealed that customers in the US who pre-order the game from GameStop will gain early access to the game’s demo. It’s not yet known whether a similar pre-order scheme will take place over here.

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