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there better be a cheat code to give kimbo cardio and a ground game or else its a bust.
wait.... never mind.....

I hope it has some more authentic Dana White soundclips. Not enough fucks, shits and pussy in the first one.

Maybe an unlockable Dana White character, complete w/ aerobics uniform and matching wrist bands. He'd always show up for Brock Lesnar and Chuck Liddell fights with his hand down their pants.

1.) SLAMS THAT DO DAMAGE.

2.) Use the cage for takedowns.

3.) The ability to find your friends online and beat the shit out of them/have them beat the shit out of you. (Maybe you can do already that, I sure as hell haven't figured out how yet)

4.) If I make my Create A Fighter 23-years old, he should be 28 five years later. Somehow this concept escaped the developers in UFC 2009.

5.) Why can't my fighter stand southpaw?

6.) For the love of god get some more songs at the menus. I can tell exactly what menu someone is at without looking because each one has it's own shitty loop that has been burned into my ears forever. Now they look like Randy's ears which I'll admit is bad-ass but I shouldn't get that from a video game. Speaking of which, It'd be cool if your C.A.F. could get cauliflower ear and his nose smashed down permanently (Like Diego, even before Penn) the older he gets.

7.) Yes to Kalib Starnes' "Escape the Octagon" (@Schlong tattoo - That comment made my day)

Artof8limbs and PenisTattoo have great lists, for different reasons. I give em both +1.
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Activision (and especially Bob Kotick) can kiss my effin a-hole. Unfortunately, i will still occassionally buy games that the company publishes, as they tend to invest money in studios that turn out quality products. Then they finance sequels and run those titles into the ground.
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THQ is pretty lazy and conservative, and i wouldn't cross the street to check out their content. Unless there is a license involved that i am already interested in.
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It really is a shame (for we the gamers) that EA and Zuffa could not see eye to eye. It would have been nice to see a top flight UFC game. However, it's possible that Yuke's/THQ will put more resources into this series and turn out a high-quality product. This is a chance for Yuke's to go head to head with EA and they have an advantage with the UFC license behind them.
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i said it was possible.

Entrances are lame. Customizable entrances are lamer. Go play one of those fake ass soap opera wrastling games.

I gotta believe it took like 30 takes for Tito get that line out.

Or a Staph Dodge training mode, in which your Brazilian fighter must avoid being taken down to the toxic staph-infested training mats.

Or a Tito Excuse Mode, in which you have to come up with excuses about why you gassed and lost a fight.

There should be a "rival promotion" mode in which your fighter can jump for more money to an upstart MMA company which does two pay-per-views then folds, leaving your fighter blacklisted from the UFC forever.

u get 20g achievement if u make a punch with thales leites

Lol at Kalib mode.
Or they could call it the "get kimbo a win" challenge.

i LOL'd @ penis tattoo of...

Kalib Starnes escape the octagon "challenge mode"

time limits would be a major factor in that

oh yeah.. and if EA is thinkin.. they will make a big greazy beard in the create a fighter if u catch my drift.

hmmmmmmm..does this mean hendo is gonna be in it now??

oh yeah.. the thing that pissed me off the most is in career mode.. your fighter doesnt age. thats fuckin lame.... even madden (for all u haters) got that right..

and maybe add some medical suspension.. if u get sanchezed, maybe your next fights u will lose a lil bit on your cut rating and your scar tissue will catch up to you

Career mode needs to be stepped way up. Gimme a signature more and an entrance. There should actually be a difference in the camps, maybe different ones are available depending on where you fight out of. More of a lead in before you get a UFC contract. Optional strength and conditioning mini-games. I also don't want my career to end for no fucking reason.

Create a fighter: Either give me more than 8 fucking nick-names to call me for my entire career. Maybe you are given one after a few wins?

Each fighter should be more distinctive too. Not a boxer is a boxer unless it's BJ Penn.

I kind of half expected Dana White to come out with his popular line "So, you want to be a FUCKING FIGHTER"

So many things:

1: Entrances, specifically creatable ones. I want my create-a-fighter cartwheeling down to the octagon to 'Don't Cha' by the Pussycat Dolls while buttloads of pyro explodes in time with the music.

2: Improved Create-a-fighter. THQ has proved they can do it with the Smackdown games. Throw all this silly po-faced realism out of the window and allow full clothing on fighters. If I want to have a Hitler / Jesus lightweight brawl then I should be allowed to do it. Move over Guida, the real 'carpenter' is here. And he might actually tap.

3: Customisable move sets, again like the smackdown games allow me to pick from a number of moves of different styles.

4: Leg kicks that do damage

5: Slams that do damage

6: Unlockable Dana White character. And the ability to get him in a head lock and make him tap from slaps to the top of his shiny dome.

7: Kalib Starnes' 'Escape the Octagon' challenge mode.

8: TUF themed career mode, where you have to run around the house randomly attacking other fighter, getting pissed and eating body fluids in order to increase the ratings.

9: A 'Dancing with the Stars' mini-game.

Fightlinker posted side by side comparisons of pics of the UFC game and preview pics of the EA game.

Even though UFC kind of deserves it for how they treated Fitch and everyone, I almost felt kind of sorry for them.

They're gonna look like fools when the EA game drops!

As far as graphics its right up there with fight night.
The UFC game looked like a PS1 game next to it!
It looked really sad and pitiful.


BTW: I guess spike will have to give the sports game award to madden or soccer next year if they dont want to piss off UFC or look like shills by giving it to UFC'10 over the EA game.

Although if UFC sells really well, which it could with the brand attached (and ooweee, you do get to play as kimbo!), then they can just give the award based on sales I guess.

smellcheck would.
:)

looking bad. ea mma will rock

I agree about EA, but I dont know if you remember Medal of Honor?

Its fallen off really bad and isn't worth playing anymore. But the first one circa 1999 was a major splash.
4 years later activision jumped on the WW2 bandwagon.

I have played COD before, I didn't think it was notable. If fact I taped over it ;) because it was so extra medium.

The graphics on the new ones look nice and all, but as far as I can tell there is no unique reason for modern warfare to be selling better than any other number of better looking FPS's except that sheep like to copy whatever they see other sheep doing, and then it snowballs like nazi germany.

I think that certain developers can pretty much write their own checks, depending on the quality and the contract they may have with the publisher. If you look at Infinity Ward and Modern Warfare 2 and the back catalogue of Call of Duty games, they have been among the most successful franchises which have made billions of dollars for Activision. The guys who run Infinity Ward are making BANK.

Great game development doesn't come cheap unless you have inhouse developers like EA, which is an evil, EVIL corporation.

@ jimbonics,

I understand the difference. I was just using it as an overall umbrella because although activision has pretty much become investment bankers in the process, they have to be ultimately held accountable for the overall quality of what they choose to invest in and publish IMO.

No they dont even do any lifting anymore.

They liscence, buy or imitate brands that a board of suits have decided should guarantee some sales. Then farm it out to the cheapest developers they can find to increase profits a bit more without any concern for the quality of the finished product.

Not impressed.
In fact I find it somewhat offensive in any arena, not just video games.

One more thing, the developer should have individual fighter stances, like how Machida has a wide Karate stance but he almost leans back with his upper torso.

Oh and the thing that this game REALLY needs is fighter entrances with the ability to drop your entrance song into the game ala Fight Night Round 4. Make my JKD dude walk into the octagon while "You're the Best Around" plays loudly.....

@ smellcheck,
Your really are a sales fan aren't you.

I beg to differ with your final assertion though, they publish dogshit!
Almost without exception!

Investing their ill got gains from movie and TV liscenses in devouring the developer of warcraft after it became popular doesn't suddenly make them have any taste or quality control.
Unless of course your a big fan of corporate maneuvering and sales figures.

Nor does imitating rhythm games 10 years later and then advertising the fuck out of it on MTV for pavlovian droolers.

ability to get dq'd for wes sims stomps on a downed opponent

or if you knock someone out while standing you have the chance to attack them while their unconscious...although douchey...realistic


more presentation in career mode...and i wish they could say my name...Grim Reaper can only be cool for so long

and have those lil cool 3 things that make me bad ass..like judo master,granite chin,fast hands

more presentation more submissions...WAY MORE FUCKING SUBMISSIONS...doctor stoppages...ability to use cage...cpu vs. cpu...a career mode where you can use a real fighter...the ability to move up or down a weight class

and the choice to have if a fighter wants to tap out or pass out would be cool

the point is if you look at the stats instead of talking out your ass you will realize that ATVI(activision-blizzard) is THE most profitable gaming company in the world. BAR NONE. between MW2, which broke every entertainment sales record there is, thats right, it grossed a larger amount than any movie or video game EVER has in history, and blizzards consistant Game of the Year PC releases... no other company comes close. ATVI releases in depth games people actually want to play. not madden.

I just looked up what the fuck your talking about "blizzard":

"Blizzard Entertainment, a video game subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. with such franchises as StarCraft, Diablo, and Warcraft "

Well fuck me!
I take back everything I said!

Activision doesn't make games. They publish them. Big difference.

The various Call of Duty's were made by people like Infinity Ward, Gray Matter, Treyarch, shit like that. Not Activision.

EA is so big they do both.

I knew somebody would bring up COD shortly.

activision probably makes as much money as EA from all the crappy license games the shovel out the door, so they can afford to make a decent one when they want to.
They allegedly have one flagship decent one in cod. Although I've never played cod so I cant vouch for it being in fact decent or just catching the fancy of drooling mobs of fanboys like guitar hero.

Its a WW2 first person shooter right?
Wonderful idea! They must have invested millions brainstorming that one. Its a wonder they didn't fuck it up.

As far as EA, I'm not gonna defend those assholes.
But if they were american presidents EA would be Abraham Lincoln and activision would be jimmy carter.

THQ is george w bush.

u should b able to work the cage. and a little more judo would b nice.. they shoulda just quit playin games and let EA do their thing.. with the engine they have for fight night round 4 is sick. im sure they can touch it up a lil bit and turn it into an mma game easily than creating a whole new engine from scratch like activision did last year.. and undisputed 2010 looks pretty much like the same game with a few new features.. kinda like they do with every sports franchise.. no real improvements.. a few tweaks

It is difficult to dispute that EA, despite them being complete assholes, have mastered the physics and graphics of sports games - and this goes double for boxing. Initially, I think we all loved Undisputed for no other reason than this: it was a workable, viable and somewhat pleasurable MMA experience. Like a C-Section, it was a cut above all the other pussy MMA games before it. For this reason only, I think we all forgot the massive errors in the game. Most notably, that fighters were based off templates, and this includes their stances, styles and bodies, there was no cage and hardly any clinch work, the ground game was mechanistic and rigid, and the graphics were generally poor. I wish that EA had not been such assholes to the UFC, or we would have the best fighters in the best combat game.

What robthom said. All of it.

"...UFC Undisputed 2009 as the year's Best Individual Sports Game, ..."

Nepotism is so awesome!


I dont know if your aware of this, but THQ has been one of the worst, sloppiest game developers for years next to activision.

Except thq doesn't even have all the big ticket movie liscenced games that activision shits out for fanboys (although I suppose they do have kimbo now), so they dont even have the money or resources to make a good game if it even ever occurred to them.

UFC has really hitched their wagon to a french whore with this one. The EA game will blow it out of the water no contest, which is a shame because EA are such assholes.

here is my list of improvements this game needs:

The Potato Index - you NEED to be able to visually see what kind of effect your last fight had on your standing in the eyes of the fans.

alternatively, a way to view what keyboard warriors are saying about your ugly tattoos on sherdog. either one works.

better online system is a must! It started horrible then they fixed it but if I am level 87 and I beat a guy who is level 84 I should get more points than if I beat someone who is level 1. Right now unless you beat someone above you you get nothing but if you lose you lose like 2000 points

@Sully
Give me Paco.

Dos Santos.

And he would annihilate Kimbo.

**IMPORTANT UFC UNDISPUTED 2010 UPDATES THAT MUST BE IMPLEMENTED**

1-The ability to use cage (ie. trapping opponent against cage; while ground grappling, pushing opponent against cage to neutralize sweeps; and cage walk up the fence if on your back)

2- Custom move set for certain characters (ie. chris leben footstomps; machida leg sweeps; kimbo-plex; lesnar masturbation punches;rashad evans stanky leg; etc)

3- More submission moves (ie. gogos, omoplatas, peruvian neckties, da'arst choke, heel hooks, anaconda choke, americana, indian burns, noogies, etc)

4- More elaborate training (ie. maybe a TUF competition?)

5- Smoother graphics (watch a KO replay from Fight Night Round 4 and Undisputed 2009...HUGE difference)

6- More blood/bruises/scrapes

7- Unlockable Joe Rogan fighter

8- During career mode, feuds and rematches. Post fight comments by Dana criticizing fights

9- Referees should get more involved while stopping fights (ie. jumping in to stop submissions and TKOs)

10- Personalized entrances (ie. Diego Sanchez: YES!)

UFC 2009 was a revolutionary game that i still play on a daily basis, and these additions would ensure that UFC: undisputed remains the dominant MMA game

@Kid

It does need more fighting styles for sure. At very least Karate since one of the champs uses it as his base.

I loved 2009, but a few improvements I'd hope for:
1. To vary up the styles, they should make certain moves belong to certain style combinations i.e. boxer/wrestler, muay thai/judo, etc.
2. They also have to work on signature moves to make each guy feel different from each other.
3. Make kicks more effective and realistic. You can leg kick a guy all day and there's no discernible effect(and it never makes them fall down). Also, you should not be able to throw high or even mid kicks over and over with perfect accuracy everytime and no fatigue. They have to feel different than just being like long range punches.
4. Your career mode starts you off as a contestant on the Ultimate Fighter.
5. Add head movement ala Fight Night when standing and banging.

It looks to like Kimbo's opponent is Junior Dos Santos. Anyone else see that?

"THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER" CAMPAIGN MODE!

The ability to upload your own entrance music would be kinda cool.

I'd like to see eye pokes and groin shots added to the arsenal of attacks... and maybe an un-lockable greasing perk to attain with so many wins or successful takedowns.

Can you make your own fighter? If you can I'm making Chong Li from bloodsport.

Sarcasm is a fickle art.

@KidDinomite: Are you joking? They don't have gogos or omas in the first edition? No specialty moves or base styles? WTF? The things you listed sound totally necessary just to make the game cool at all. Without those features the game sounds boring. I was looking forward to trying it out but I think I'll pass. Dude, you need to get on that development team somehow. Clear that bullshit up.

Tiger Woods sitting cageside with a gaggle of coke whores.

Tito has to try SO HARD just to utter an articulate sentence. God Bless him. Like in the way that one might say, "God Bless that shit head who just cut me off on the freeway."

Oh yeah and it should have that awesome Kimboplex.

I think Kimbo's fighting Sweet Sassy in the video display frame. Kimbo would have to find the Pick of Destiny to land anything on Sweet Sassafras.

The ability to be able to do an Omaplata or a Gogoplata would be nice. Also for each fighter to have their own stances and not be cookie cutter like in the last game. Being able to have your own custom style or styles like JKD, karate, Sambo, Kung-Fu, etc. And also to be able to have a signature move like an overhand right or haymaker, or spinning roundhouse kick. If these features are put into the game, it would really stand out...

Don Zimmer?

WTB Kimboplex.

I wonder if they are going to have collision issues with Roy's belly like they did with Clay's hair... THERE'S TOO MUCH OF IT!

still looks awful..
the EA sports MMA one will be much better.

The guy Kimbo is fighting at the end kind of looks like Dos Santos. ?.

This game better have the Ultimate Warrior in it.

I would like to see Joe Silva shit his pants.