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EA Sports UFC Review - Beautiful, Rough, Shallow [Pixel Gate]

Sean Halliday writes:

''EA’s UFC has been one of the company’s most hyped titles, mainly due to its visuals. After months of press releases, trailers and screenshots, does the game deliver the realistic experience promised? In short, no. Not entirely, at least.''

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Trunkz3596d ago

Didn't need a review to know how say PG or IGN felt. When I first saw their gameplay video, I saw them kicking a punching a guy so hard that any UFC fighter would be dazed, slightly dazed, or completely knocked out, only to see them continue as if nothing happened.

For once, I actually agreed with IGN without even having to play the game, I saw this problem even before it came to be, and I'm sure many did as well. It works in WWE games where IRL its acting, not UFC tho.

GamerEuphoria3596d ago

To be fair the reactions to most of the strikes are quite realistic and they nail the animation for the stand up. It's just...well....everything else is lacking.

Ground game is awful, clinch is just okay and transitions are awkward. The lack of modes and content is really a big issue too.

It's a shame because they clearly put work into nailing the stand up animations, i've been doing MMA for a year and half now and the majority of strikes in the gamer mirror real life pretty closely.

Trunkz3596d ago

Well yeah, they nailed so many things right with the game, but the biggest thing is that people want to play as Anderson Silva and knock people out with knees, etc. If your kneeing someone constantly to the head and they seem like their okay after it, you got yourself a problem that any UFC fan as see.

DEEBO3596d ago

Lol practice makes perfect.o can stand,ground game tight and i will kner your brains in.

Just do the challenges it will show you the ropes there id some cheese with people doing all body blows but you just have to adjust but this is a deep fighter and does the sport some justice.

The strikes are good and will show the fighter head snap back or leg damage

The game is like the sport,you look at and think i might can do that but these guys put years in to be in the ufc gamers have to put hours in to but good at this game

GamerEuphoria3596d ago

The ground game isn't good bud...it's not a question of learning. Thq's line did it much better

osprey193596d ago

For me i enjoy it, on the issue of the strikes not taking much affect, in career mode, at the beginning the strikes are weak and take alot to knock a guy out, but when u get to the upper echelons of the rankings, it doesn't take alot of solid hits to do some real damage. Everything else is just a large learning curve, the controls are alot different from previous titles.

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EA Sports UFC 4 CheatCC Review

EA Sports UFC 4 is back, but is it better than ever?

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EA Sports UFC 4 PS4 Review - PlayStation Universe

From PSU: "Without a doubt the best MMA videogame ever made, EA Sports UFC 4 supplements a welcome array of new offline and online modes with a revamped and endlessly sophisticated combat system that everybody can enjoy. For MMA fans it doesn't get any better than this."

Alexious1351d ago

Hmm, sounds worth a try for sure.

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BenRC011351d ago

Strange as a lot of YouTube beta players hated it. They've had years and just copied and pasted ufc 3 ith a few new haircuts

yeahokwhatever1351d ago

its not fight night, so not buying it. do boxing or go home.

nowitzki20041351d ago

Go home and wait for Fight Night.

ActualWhiteMan1351d ago

Same... although they long ago fired all the developers that made FN great. So it would likely be terrible if it came back.

MadLad1351d ago

Comes to a UFC related game to whine about it not being a boxing game.

Ok.

FlavorLav011351d ago (Edited 1351d ago )

Well, for context EA did put in real boxers Tyson Fury and Anthony Joshua in the game, and Isaac Frost and Andre Bishop from fight night champion in the last game. No getting around it, they have been c@ck teasing boxing fans for years with this sh!t pre-order dlc

yeahokwhatever1351d ago

these UFC games are trash, they play terrible. UFC is not really a good choice for a game because of the limited inputs controllers have. But EA got the license on the cheap, so they've been shoveling this crap at us for years while we wait patiently for a fight night that will probably never happen until Mayweather is dead or runs out of money.

zeroskie1351d ago

Same. I want another fight night so badly.

yeahokwhatever1351d ago

my wishes:
fight night primarily focused on online, like gt sport.
ONLY stick controls. No button mashing. if you try to mash buttons, your characters head explodes and he's permanently deleted from the game.

nowitzki20041351d ago

Same here, I love boxing more than MMA but I also want a good MMA game as well.

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shaunh201351d ago

I agree with this review, I tried it only because it's free on EA Access and figured I'd hate it like I did the other games but lo and behold I loved it and plan to buy it now. The game is so much more fun now that they've made it so much less complicated and inaccessible to non-hardcore fighter fans.

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UFC 3 Review | Watch-Loki

A beautiful reminder of how much I miss Fight Night, check out my review on Watch-Loki!

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badboyz092212d ago

TRASH!!!! Glad I rented first