EA Sports Shows Off its In-Game UFC Fighters

You can actually see the Vaseline gleaming on GSP's back!

Too soon :(

When will the video game dude on video game dude violence end!?

This game seems almost as authentic as kid rock.

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wow, this is legitimately really impressive

too soon bro. too soon.

How come they don't make boxing games anymore? I wanna play a new boxing game. :(

I like that EA is trying to capture the emotion of the sport in their game. That's something they have always been jaw-droppingly terrible at with Madden.

This! Please stop wasting this tech on stupid ass UFC and get back to the sweet science. If these are the real in game graphics though, this is probably the best i've ever seen, even better than 2k14

Looks great, but I hope the actual fighting mechanics are good this time around.

honestly expected better... damn.

Look at all them dudes

@dezvous said:

"...these high resolution images allowed us to create highly detailed models of each atheletes face and body..." except for their nipples.

Haha. I'm sure they use normal maps for them in-game instead of actual geometry but it was still funny to hear that paired with this imagery.

I assure you, you will not be able to handle the Next Gen Nipplage of EA Sports' UFC 2: Nippledome

"...these high resolution images allowed us to create highly detailed models of each atheletes face and body..." except for their nipples.

Haha. I'm sure they use normal maps for them in-game instead of actual geometry but it was still funny to hear that paired with this imagery.

@vegetashonor: Ah. I guess there is hope for the engine after all. I feel like the reviews for Madden, FIFA, and NBA all felt like the fancy animation kind of lowered the playability of the games. I just hope they don't sacrifice fun for realism. I've felt for years now that EA's sports games have gone way too far towards the sim side of things. I really enjoyed NBA Street back on the PS2 and Xbox more than any of either 2K or EA's basketball games since for example. Maybe I'm in the minority on that, but I feel like every graphical and gameplay "upgrade" EA has made to their sports games has been to make it more like the real sport often to the detriment of making a fun game. Maybe it's just me but then again watching Jeff and Vinny play EA's games I get the feeling they really wish sports games were simpler as well.

To bad the roster released so far looks so small =(

@raven10: it does, AND they've significantly reduced the hitboxes so that strikes actually have to look like they landed. Plus chokes and other various submissions are actually looking like chokes, instead of a dudes arm like 4 inches away and they "act" like it's a choke. It's a technical powerhouse. Let's see if the gameplay can match it.

@darkly_com1c: you have spoken my worst fear. I mean, fight night was always true to me, so lets hope they don't botch this up with a button mashy submission system!!!

If this turns out decent it may be the thing that finally sells me on a, for me, next gen console.

The graphics are impressive. Lets see how the realtime facial destruction looks during a match.

@daftasabat: Gameplay > shadows

Shadows looked a bit meh. Still not feeling the next gen sadly

Not it wasn't. It was awesome and actually looked more like an MMA match then rock em sock em robots the game (Undisputed). All those complaints are absurd. Also know why it didn't sell well, despite having an awesome roster? It didn't have UFC on the box. Don't pretend otherwise.

BOOM

It's another MMA game that will probably play like EA's previous MMA game. Showing off gameplay more early than this would be overhyping it. Saying that though im looking forward to it. Having played a lot of UFC I was put off by EA's version of it to start with but once you get used to the mechanics it felt a lot more natural than THQ's UFC.

EA MMA was terrible. Only even remotely tolerable thing was the standup, and even that didn't come close to the fight night or old PS2 K1 games when it come to punching dudes in the face.

Animations were bad, move selection was awful, ground game was overly simplistic 2 button bullshit.

There's a reason the game sold like 11 copies.

Agreed. I don't think there has been a great MMA game yet, but the THQ ones weren't even good. I was most annoyed by how nothing blended together and everything was so clearly it's own motion, strung together randomly, as well as the complete lack of impact.

I hope this will be the one game that gets it right.

No offense EA but with your track record lately, when all you show is a pre alpha build and this trailer it makes me hesitant. I will wait for all the reviews before i pick this one up.

@raven10: it's on ignite

"This is literally as real as it gets."

No. No it isn't.

If it plays anything like EA Sports MMA (which is more than likely exactly what it'll play like) then it'll be a lot more fluid than the THQ games and should be good.

I mean, it's definitely not as real as it gets, but it still looks pretty good.

Even with EA's track record for other stuff, EA Sports games are generally of good quality. I'm sure it will be fine.