I'm done complaining for now...

All Im gonna say is that im a hardcore MMA fan, and this game is not very good at all.

http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma.cfm?go=forum.posts&forum=1&thread=1459304&page=1

There's a thread from an MMA forum, full of guys that have been watching MMA before most people here even knew what UFC was. A lot more of the hardcore MMA fans have the same complaints that I do. One guy even compares the striking in this game to this:



and to be honest, he's not too far off.

Hardcore MMA fans like myself will notice tons of faults that casuals never will.

-Cant bob and weave to avoid strikes

-No left handed fighters in the game. Anderson Silva, Cro Cop, etc are left handed IRL but fight right handed in this game. Yes, it makes a huge difference. Devs have gone on record to say they wanted to include southpaw stance, but didnt because they HAD TO RUSH THE GAME OUT.

-Ridiculous amount of kicks and super punches and signature moves. These should be draining way more stamina from your fighter. It shouldnt even be possible to do superman punch after superman punch after superman punch.

-Lack of variety in fighting styles.

-You can't even use the CAGE in fights. Watch a real UFC fight, and I garauntee EVERY fight that goes past 2 rounds will eventually end up with one guy pushing the other guy up against the cage and using it to hold him there. This is a huge part of GSP and Tito Ortiz's strategies. Why is it not in the game?

 

I guess it's different if youre just a "casual" fan of MMA. You wont even notice these faults in the game. Which is probably why some of you actually like it. So whatever. Enjoy playing.

disolitude said: infamous8 said: you guys must have very low standards for video games. Seriously...This is WWE Smackdown vs Raw with MMA moves and a cage. The animations and graphics are identical. Slow, sluggish, robitic movements and animations. Just like every WWE game for the past 5 years. I cant believe how many ppl actually like this game.   Your whole argument is "Graphics" and slow/sluggish. 1. graphics have nothing to do how good the game is. 2. Some people like slower fights...the fight pacing in UFC 2009 is perfect for me. The reason why it works is because of the fact that you can be knocked out at any time ...and that makes the game quite exciting. So controls are slower since big consequences follow if you make a mistake...therefore you are given time to think between hits. Unless you are playing on easy and jsut kick the guy over and over till he falls down...

 

1. I didnt only complain about graphics, but the DESIGN of characters. Some of them look terrible. Simply terrible. BJ and Dana White are two that stood out to me as looking really bad. I cant believe people accept this type of half-assed design from a huge company developing a huge title.

2. You're trying to rationalize and justify a fault. You are not making much sense. The controls are slow, and there usually are not consequences if you mess up, BECAUSE YOUR OPPONENT IS EQUALLY AS SLOW. That's why a parry system is crucial to a game like this.

I just noticed... if youre playing online, and beating someone, they can just quit the game and you get ZERO points and they get NO consequences at all.

Terrible. Ppl quitting in this game is even worse than SF4.

Okay... how much did Eurogamer pay you to write this?

Seriously, the worst bit of reviewing ive ever read in my entire life.

infamous8 said: One more thing I just noticed .... There is no SOUTHPAW STANCE in this game? WTF? How can you be a professional developer making a huge name game, and not include Southpaw stance? All the lefties are fighting as righties in this game. So much for realism. Just goes to show what I pointed out before... the devs of this game don't know much about MMA. Cro Cop is fighting as a righty. LOL. I find it completely unprofessional of the dev studio. That stuff might fly in WWE games, but in MMA it's crucial.. again... casual MMA fans wont notice the difference, and wont care. But I do.

I would be willing to bet you are the casual mma fan an just took complaints off a MMAforum and posted them as your thoughts here.

THQ released a statement as to why their are not southpaw fighters, also a reason why Clay Guida is not in the game, even though he was suppose to be.

I am a hardcore MMA fan, that hardcore fan in me goes further then just UFC, because UFC is not MMA. I use to do interviews with fighters for www.mmanews.com now i am just a admin for the forum. So i have a little more credit when i say I am a hardcore fan.

It does bother me that guys like Rich Franklin do not fight southpaw but at least THQ gave the reason as to why.

An to your statement saying this is just a WWE game but with mma moves an a cage, lol thats to funny. Could say that about any fighting game. Could say it was basically FNR 3 without the ground game.

To say all you need to do is head kick head kick an repeat just makes me think you have no idea how to play the game. Sure if you play the game on easy you can get away with just the head kick, but if you play it on more advanced levels or anyone that has any idea of how to play that head kick shit don't fly.

Anyway enough with you.

I give the game 7/10 

I found the career mode pretty weak. I don't like that the fighters don't age, i started at 18 and when Dana forced me to retire i was still 18. Not to hard to make the age go up with the years. Basically by your 10th fight, all you do is train rest train rest an so on. Once your cardio an speed is maxed, there is no point in working on those as they do not go down over time.

Most of the background announcing from past events an interviews get annoying fast.

After a while in career mode you know exactly what the certian fighter will do, for example Thales will just go for take downs. They should have mixed it up a bit.

But i will agree that not being able to use a UFC fighter in career mode is retarded.

I feel they released this game to see what people would say an what there reactions an complaints were and fix it with ufc 2010 which from what i have heard is already being worked on.

i have to agree, button smasher will always win

sgarr01 said: infamous8 said: One more thing I just noticed .... There is no SOUTHPAW STANCE in this game? WTF? How can you be a professional developer making a huge name game, and not include Southpaw stance? All the lefties are fighting as righties in this game. So much for realism. Just goes to show what I pointed out before... the devs of this game don't know much about MMA. Cro Cop is fighting as a righty. LOL. I find it completely unprofessional of the dev studio. That stuff might fly in WWE games, but in MMA it's crucial.. again... casual MMA fans wont notice the difference, and wont care. But I do. An to your statement saying this is just a WWE game but with mma moves an a cage, lol thats to funny. Could say that about any fighting game. Could say it was basically FNR 3 without the ground game.

wrong.

fnr3 actually had a good striking system. this ufc game does not

Carl2291 said: Okay... how much did Eurogamer pay you to write this? Seriously, the worst bit of reviewing ive ever read in my entire life.

There is no incentive for me to bash this game. Its multiplat, so you guys cant say I'm a fanboy or bias.

I love UFC and have been a fan for a long time...

This is just my HONEST review. I call it how I see it, and most of my points about how bad the game is can't even be debated

infamous8 said: Carl2291 said: Okay... how much did Eurogamer pay you to write this? Seriously, the worst bit of reviewing ive ever read in my entire life. There is no incentive for me to bash this game. Its multiplat, so you guys cant say I'm a fanboy or bias. I love UFC and have been a fan for a long time... This is just my HONEST review.

I never accused you of either of them.
I just think you probably suck at the game, and feel the need to slate it because its too technical for you.

Carl2291 said: infamous8 said: Carl2291 said: Okay... how much did Eurogamer pay you to write this? Seriously, the worst bit of reviewing ive ever read in my entire life. There is no incentive for me to bash this game. Its multiplat, so you guys cant say I'm a fanboy or bias. I love UFC and have been a fan for a long time... This is just my HONEST review. I never accused you of either of them. I just think you probably suck at the game, and feel the need to slate it because its too technical for you.

I dont suck, THIS GAME sucks.

I was destroying some guy online, and right as Round 2 is about to start...he quits. I didnt get a win, he didnt get a loss. WTF?

As far as being technical... I'm 10-0 in career mode right now on normal difficulty and I just spam headkick 15 times until the opponents is KO'd. This game is TERRIBLE and you should be ashmed for sticking up for such a low quality game that the developers ADMIT was rushed.