You're grasphing for straws dude. I already knew what you stated above.

What if I want to parry a punch, and counter it with my own punch? Cant do it. and that's what parries are mainly used for IRL.

1.) you have too many nitpicks and nonsense complaints about the game that have nothing to do with the gameplay. you're complaining about MSG being there? you're complaining about few options about your character's look? you're complaining about not being able to use existing characters in career mode?

these complaints of yours DO NOT RUIN THE GAME. you're just being far too sensitive.

2.) for your information, i'm an amateur boxer who has been training for the better part of 5 years, daily. i've been watching mma since UFC 1. before UFC 1, i've been a huge fan of boxing and taekwondo competitions ever since grade school. all my friends train in some form of combat sport. i have a friend who teaches BJJ. i have another friend who fights regularly in small mma competitions around our neighborhood (we call it pasukoan, which means "to make the other guy give up").

3.) the reason why i like this game is precisely why you hate it. it's DIFFICULT. i like the game because it takes skill to play it. i like the game because it represents ACTUAL MMA, wherein you really have to mix and match and practice like hell on different facets of the game. while you keep claiming that it's easy, you haven't even tried playing against a real human yet. try your headkick spam online, and see if you win even one match. try it.

4.) again, this is a game. it's not perfect. there are things that weren't included. but the things that were not included aren't game changing. in fact, those things don't need to be in the game for it to be good.

you're the one nitpicking little itty bitty problems. i focus on the entire gameplay and experience of the thing. the game allows me to do 95% of all the things an MMA fighter can do in the octagon. that other 5% i can do without.

on the other hand, you keep focusing on just that 5%. you don't care about anything else and you complain about that 5% to the end of time, and you trash the game for just not having that 5%.

does fight night simulate 100% of what a boxer can do? i'm sure it doesn't. i box myself, and I KNOW there are things missing too. but that doesn't make fight night bad.

and the 5% that isn't in the game doesn't make UFC undisputed bad. you just want to focus on it too much.

i say stop nitpicking and focusing on small things and try to learn the game.

Why should I be thanking them for making a non-realistic MMA simulator.

Why should I be thanking them for including an arena that has never allowed MMA.

It's not a crime for them to put it in there, but it shows how lazy and/or rushed the development was.

Let me ask you this- After all the things Ive critisized, youve never really praised the game or mentioned too much about why you think it's so good.

Poor animations, poor graphics, sluggish gameplay, limited music, limited create a fighter, limited career mode, terrible CPU AI, limited fighting styles, limited online options (no lobbies, bad matchmaking. Why is a lvl 1 guy fighting someone who is lvl 25?). And the unrealistic things already mentioned, like MSG and lack of southpaws. 

I could critsize this game all day.

again, your criticisms DO NOT influence the gameplay.

1.) you're blaming lazy devs for INCLUDING SOMETHING? if they were lazy, WHY DIDN'T THEY JUST NOT INCLUDE IT? IT TAKES MORE TIME TO INCLUDE SOMETHING THAN TO JUST LEAVE IT OUT! common sense man.. please.

2.) poor animations, poor graphics, limited music, limited create a fighter options, limited career mode blah blah blah, DO NOT MAKE THE GAMEPLAY BAD. IT IS AN ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF MMA FIGHTING. go ahead and blame the AI, but the large part of this game is played with friends. and while you're on that subject, try the higher difficulties too. online options, hell, this is THQ's first UFC game. i'll forgive them for errors like that. but as far as gameplay goes, and GAMEPLAY BEING THE MOST IMPORTANT CRITERIA, THQ DELIVERS WELL.

3.) i did say why the game is good. read the original post.

4.) this is the last time i'll address your concerns. again, i agree, there are limited options on a bunch of things. but your complaints DO NOT INFLUENCE THE GAMEPLAY. you're just complaining about the aesthetics. the look. the sound.

but you cannot complain about the gameplay IF you've actually learned the thing and IF you play against someone who knows what he's doing.

5% ???

Dude, youre pulling numbers out of nowhere now.

Considering how big a part of Tito Ortiz's strategy was pinning his opponents against the cage, Id say it's atleast 50% of the game play is messed up if I'm using him. Because you cant push opponents against the cage or use it to your advantage in this game.

That was Tito's bread and butter. The other 50% of his style is Ground and Pound...which is extremely limited in this as well. First off, right and left punches are interchangable and offer nothing different. Hence, why even bother using the left punch during Ground and pound, if I can throw 10 right punches in a row. I'll leave it at that for now, but if you want more I can keep going on about this.

Also...not including southpaw stance. This is a HUGE FLAW in the game. Ever wonder why people hate fighting southpaws? It's because they are different than orthodox fighters. Since youre a boxer, you should already know that.

Hence, Cro Cop was a huge threat in MMA because his LEFT KICK was so deadly. Since he was southpaw, the orthodox fighters would be walking right into his left foot, and he would use this to his advantage. Now this UFC game doesnt even have southpaw stances. Cro Cop is standing orthodox in this game... not only does it hinder strategy when playing with him, but it's unrealistic.

Remember the slogan is "UFC - AS REAL AS IT GETS". This game is supposed to be a simulator, not an arcade game.

So there you have it.... not 5% of the gameplay is messed up. 50% is messed up...and that really hampers this game

WRONG.

They ARE lazy. They copy & pasted an unrealistic arena from a WWE game (since they also develop the WWE games) so that they could save time from developing a real arena that UFC actually goes to. Yes, that makes them lazy.

50%? lol...

you realize, you put in two things there? i've acknowledged they're not there. anything else?

so... lemme see.

2 things = 50%? so that means... MMA is just made up of 4 things?!?!?

you're trying to tell me that 50% of your game is made up of just those 2 things??

try to get your common sense back together man. you're too mad at the game for small things and you think they're so freaking huge. 2 things make you feel like the gameplay sucks? please... alright, that's the last time i'm addressing your complaints.

i'm sorry infamous8, but you're just not a reasonable person. end of responses. fellas, if you care to reply anymore on this thread, go ahead. i've said all i need to say. go out and buy the game, it's great.

bottom line, despite the shortcomings, the game includes 95% of what mma has to offer. despite infamous8's nitpicks and complaints about small things, it includes the meat of what an mma experience should be.

9/10

That's a terrible excuse. It's the same price as every other new release on the market. So why do they get a pass? All of a sudden developers are excused for being lazy and rushing games out?

Learn how to read.

I said, 50% OF TITO ORTIZ's real life strategy is made up of those 2 things. Again...you would have to actually watch UFC and know MMA to understand that.