UFC: Sudden Impact gives you all the mixed martial arts action found only in the Octagon. You can create and customize your own Ultimate Fighter and then fight your way through five gameplay modes, including Tournament and Story. The game includes such UFC superstars as Chuck Liddell, Tito Ortiz, Ken Shamrock, and Matt Hughes, as well as 10 unlockable and six hidden fighters. You can choose from 15 different fighting disciplines, positions, and moves.
Gameplay
Ultimate Fighting Championship: Sudden Impact uses an 8 directional D-Pad and 4 buttons - each one responsible for the fighter's different limb (LP, RP, LK,RK). The grappling moves, counters and submissions can be executed by pressing 2 specific buttons together. Each fighter has his own selection of moves. The fights can be won by knockout, point advantage or tap-out. This version contains visible indicators of fighters being damaged during fights such as bruises and dripping blood. The game also focuses on fence positioning giving players new maneuver possibilities.
Selectable fighters
- Andrei Arlovski (Character)
- Bas Rutten (Character)
- Big John McCarthy (Character)
- BJ Penn
- Caol Uno (Character)
- Chuck Liddell (Character)
- Dan Severn (Character)
- Dana White (Character)
- Dave Menne (Character)
- Duane Ludwig
- Elvis Sinosic (Character)
- Erica Montoya
- Eugene Jackson (Character)
- Frank Shamrock (Character)
- Gary Goodridge (Character)
- Guy Mezger (Character)
- Jens Pulver (Character)
- Jeremy Horn (Character)
- Ken Shamrock (Character)
- Kevin Randleman (Character)
- Lorenzo Fertitta
- Mark Coleman (Character)
- Mask
- Matt Hughes (Character)
- Matt Serra (Character)
- Maurice Smith (Character)
- Mikey Burnett (Character)
- Murilo Bustamante (Character)
- Pat Miletich (Character)
- Pedro Rizzo (Character)
- Pete Spratt
- Pete Williams (Character)
- Phil Baroni (Character)
- Renato Sobral
- Ricco Rodriguez (Character)
- Robbie Lawler (Character)
- Shonie Carter
- Tim Sylvia (Character)
- Tito Ortiz (Character)
- Tsuyoshi Kohsaka (Character)
- Vitor Belfort (Character)
- Yves Edwards
Game modes
- Arcade - player fighting as one of the superstars or his own creation is pitted against series of CPU controlled opponents
- Champion Road - players ultimate aim is to win a silver (5 fights) or gold (10 fights) title shot match in his own weight class. By doing that some previously unplayable characters are unlocked.
- Tournament - an eight-fighter eliminatory tournament
- Versus - 1P vs COM, !P vs 2P, COM vs COM, COM vs 2P, COM vs COM
- Story - in this mode the player is given an opportunity to create his own fighter with customizable body and clothing. The creation tools are not very detailed, because they only let players to choose from several predetermined face designs. Clothing and tattoos are unlocked as the player makes progress. The main idea of this mode is to prepare the fighter to enter the UFC league during three-year training. Each year the player is given an opportunity to choose the fighting style he wants to specialize in (some of them need to be unlocked) and then decides if he wants to learn new moves or improve the stats by completing various tasks such as e.g. surviving the round without being hit, performing a specific combo or winning by tap-out. After three years of training the story mode character is selectable as a regular fighter in any gameplay mode.
- Training - in this mode players can set their and opponents' positions as well as display the input data.