Your main three complaints seem to be:
1) Cosmetic shortcomings: not enough animations, limited character customization, etc. Okay, fair enough. These are pretty subjective limitations though, and, while annoying, don't really detract from the gameplay itself...
2)You consider the gameplay too limited/easy/straightforward. Okay, as everyone has said (and as I've read in the handful of professional reviews I skimmed), this game is incredibly broad and deep: so much that there is NO WAY that you can have scraped the surface of all the pugilistic options available to you in just one day.
3)The game isn't exactly like real UFC in every obscure detail. Whatever, who cares. This is a game, that's real life. Different spheres. Games are not meant to be 1:1 mirrors of reality. Call it poetic license, call it laziness, but whatever: it does not detract from the experience unless you're a dedicated fan.
To be fair I don't own the game and am not a huge UFC/MMA fan, but I've been playing it with my friend the past few days and so far have enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed Fight Night the first time I played it (round 2).
Crusty VGchartz old timer who sporadically returns & posts. Let's debate nebulous shit and expand our perpectives. Or whatever.
