So yeah guys, I just finished playing the demo... not impressed. Lemme break it down.
The punching system is similar to that of Fight Night's, where you have to use the right stick for striking. However, pressing L2 and letting go of it back and forth feels to clumsy to be switching from punching and kicking. Also, with the use of the right stick, I find it really easy to go mess up a punch or kick. God forbid I rotate 3/8 of the stick and accidentally to a uppercut instead of an overhead right.
The fighter's animations when striking just look downright clumsy and cartoonish. They took WAAAAAAAAAY too much of Fight Night and put it into this game.
The takedowns are even more cheaper than UFC2010, you just press spam the X (A) button to takedown and improve your position on the ground. Although it was really robotic, I like Undisputed's system better (not saying I like it that much). To defend you have to react in the 2/100 of a second a guy shoots for a takedown and press the O button. It's really flawed.
People were complaining that the clinch and ground systems of Undisputed were too complicated and unrealistic. While EA certainly has gotten the looks of the clinch and ground game down (it's really impressive, it looks like the fighters are actually grappling with one another), there's no mastery to it. Just spam the X button and watch your stamina.
The clinch system is basically the same, just press triangle.
Now what has me miffed about this button smashing system is that when on the ground or clinch, people just focus on hammering the X and Triangle buttons till they get the Muay Thai clinch or the Full Postured Mount. THEN the one-sided ass whooping occurs, easily leading to a KO.
After playing this, I'm worried about the future of MMA games in general. UFC was just too robotic and broke everything down too much, and while EA's MMA has improved SOME parts of the UFC game, it's far from the ideal MMA game. It's a close tie in between the two and for now I can't decide which one's better. Well, probably not better, but rather which one is worse.
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