ArabicGamers writes:
When EA first revealed it had acquired the license to make UFC games, I admit, I was giddy with excitement. THQ and Yuke's had done a great job up until then at depicting the sport of mixed-martial arts in a game, but now it was time for EA Sports, with its limitless budget and superb presentation skills, to take things to the next level.
Two years later, I'm left wondering at what might have been.
EA Sports UFC 4 is back, but is it better than ever?
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."
Replies(2)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
Same... although they long ago fired all the developers that made FN great. So it would likely be terrible if it came back.
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
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.
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.
Same here, I love boxing more than MMA but I also want a good MMA game as well.
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.
A beautiful reminder of how much I miss Fight Night, check out my review on Watch-Loki!
THQ had the UFC gameplay down, a couple things needed fixing. Ea has the presentation but the gameplay is lacking:
- Every fighter uses same moves
- Stamina system is horrible
- Rocked system needs to be fixed a bit (I rocked the guy and he stumbles to the ground, I get on top and he just kicks me off)
- missing some known fighters (TJ Dillishaw, Jussier Formiga, Shane Carwin, Gabriel Gonzaga, Ben Rothwell, Brandon Vera, Stephen Bonner, Anthony Johnson, Uriah Hall, Chris Leban, etc...
- Career mode is too easy to lvl up to 100 overall
- Career mode has no freedom (can't train what you want, and can't choose between a few guys to fight)
- Game Face doesn't work (atleast for me it doesn't)