The North American MMA scene may be the healthiest it's ever been, what with the UFC, WEC, Strikeforce and Bellator all aggressively looking to expand. What makes this current climate so interesting is that each organization offers something a little different than others.Just as interesting is the MMA video game landscape, which until last year was pretty non-existent. However, after the success of UFC 2009: Undisputed, THQ is set to release the 2010 version of the highly successful game in May.
A few months later, EA Sports will deliver it's first-ever video game, featuring some of the best fighters from Strikeforce and DREAM (and Randy Couture). Both companies put out new teasers of their respective games this week, which can be found below
I'm no video game expert, but I have always enjoyed a good combat sports game. To the naked eye, both games look great, but I'm curious to hear from the experts out there: which game looks better and which one will you be buying later this year?
Tip: MMA Convert
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Hey Ariel, is The MMA Hour coming back to podcast? Hope so!
Okay, I bought the last UFC game, and while it was cool playing as some of my favorite fighters, the game was only so-so once the novelty wore off. I didn't like the grappling, which was controlled by the right-analogue stick. That got tedious. The striking was also very mechanical. I didn't like how the fighters almost all fought the same.
I really can't judge how good EA's game is, except for the visuals. The graphics to me look a lot better and realistic. I'm going to wait for the reviews. If the EA game is good, I'll probably pick that one up. From the interviews and trailers, UFC 2010 does not seem like it's added anything too ground breaking. I'll either hold out this year, or pick up EA MMA.
The problem was people started exploiting the grappling and would just go into mount and spam the transition block button while throwing random hammer fists. That got old REALLY quick. I agree that it was also very rigid and all the fighters fought the same. The game had very little in terms of styes and personality. Good first effort, though.
Hi Ariel,
Can you update the video on EA Sports to use this one? http://www.gametrailers.com/video/strikeforce-trailer-ea-sports/63306
The video above won't play for me.
i agree the first ufc game got old real quick, the ea mma game looks nice we will have to see how the gameplay actually is first.I usally rent the game to see how good it is before i buy it anyway!!
Jordan5412,
The MMA Hour is back!
http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/03/15/the-mma-hour-live-featuring-jim-miller-charlie-brenneman-rafae/
Yeah, I saw that there were new episodes, but they haven't been added to the podcast list. No worries if they aren't immediately back on iTunes, it's just that I do most of my MMA listening/watching from my ipod. Thanks! :-)
Its looking like Undisputed 2010 will have the edge in this one. The first was a commerical and critical success. Being one of the best selling sports titles of the year and winning many awards in the process. I felt the only problem with 2009 was awkward controls and a lack of fight styles. All of that has been fixed now and the game has been greatly expanded on. Purely seems to come down to the fact that theyve had a game before it to really test out what worked and what didnt. Plus the addition of signature moves for each character (and a serious roster) has me sold.
The lack of southpaw, no cage usage (it was essentially an invisible barrier), broken ground game, rigid standup, no additional content after launch except for the pre order TUF fighters and no real title updates or support didn't help either. The game had potential but expanding it was scrapped once they decided to make it an annual franchise. My worry is it because like Madden and is little more than a yearly roster update with very little in the form of innovation. Even though EA makes Madden I can say that the EA MMA game looks more realistic to me.
BJ Penn better have cardio in Undisputed 2010 or I won't be buying it.
i remember the argument used to be between sega genesis and super nintendo. genesis had better sports games but snes had a better system and controller. street fighter II and mortal kombat were better on snes. we used to argue about it all the time. 'but genesis mortal kombat has blood in it.' it was pretty even. we had both and it was pretty cool.
people are gonna be split evenly on which one they prefer imo. everyone's gonna have their reasons for favoring one, and then many will eventually have both games. i think ea sports is gonna bring a whole different gameplay experience and i'm looking forward to being able to fight in a ring and a cage. in japan and usa. and i'm really looking forward to using the fighters in the ea game alot, fedor, nick diaz, cung le, king mo, mousasi, hendo, mayhem and more awesome fighters. they're all gonna have a fighting style thats particular to them. and i trust ea sports coming out with a great game. they've been doing it like forever. they're the nike of sports games.
i didn't get into the ufc game, i tried it for tlike 2 minutes and saw how like someone said, the movement was so robotic and mechanical, it didn't feel real at all. so far i haven't heard anything about them correcting that. all i've heard is they're adding more fighters. what kind of signature moves are they adding in the ufc game?? does gsp have a dragon ball and does brock lesnar have a spinning pile driver?? we'll see...
in the long run I'll pick up both games but I'm leaning towards ea sports mma because something tells me it will have significant depth in the gameplay, to me the thing that made me mad abotu undisputed was while you had alot of fighters who had "signature moves" nobody actually fought like their real life counter parts. I think ea is going to nail that given they have been mo-capping damn near everyone in the last 10 months which is truely unheard of so hopefully when I punch with fedor it the punch is a fedor punch or when I fight aoki hes instantly trying to go for a takedown because he doesnt want to stand
undisputed 2010 will sell ALOT on the name alone the head movement and cage work will be good but I'm still skeptical on how diverse you can make a fighter
i'ma just buy both