Ultimate Fighting Championship
The Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments started in the 1990s, giving martial artists of the world a chance to distinguish themselves in a fighting environment with very few rules. Fighters could be matched up against fighters of any style, and the match ended only when one fighter submitted. The popularity of the sport resulted in the creation of other mixed martial arts tournaments and the evolution and merging of fighting styles for greater effectiveness. Ultimate Fighting Championship is a 3D fighting game that tries to simulate the experience of a real mixed martial arts fight. Players can choose from a selection of established UFC fighters, or create their own fighter through the Career Mode. While in Career Mode, players start the character creation process by selecting from several style templates, then using points earned through fighting and beating a series of progressively more difficult fighters to buy attribute upgrades in stamina, endurance, punching ability, kicking ability, or to learn certain techniques.
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Yeah no
I've watched some Dreamcast gameplay, and it seems superior to the PS1 version on every level, but the gameplay seems extremely similar, it's pretty much the same gameplay wise.
The roster is pretty awesome, a lot of recognizable faces and throwback fighters, though the game is missing some of its older stars such as Royce Gracie, Ken Shamrock, Dan Severn, Tank Abbott, etc. But hey, at least we've got Gary goodridge lmao. What I'm saying is the roster is pretty cool but it could've been far better.
All the aesthetics, music, sound, all suffices. The game looks cool and interesting.
Now, why this review is rated 1 star: the gameplay sucks. There are so many fucking moves in this game and it's way too complicated, it would take weeks to memorize all the moves. The game is also extremely difficult, you will lose almost instantaneously if you don't know how to counter everything. The game also doesn't explain anything to you, you're completely on your own. There's a training mode but it's literally just a normal fighting mode but when someone loses it resets.
This game basically just becomes non-stop countering. Despite the 50 million standup moves you'll likely rarely use them as the AI in this game literally just shoots for takedowns and tries to submit you. that is legitimately all they do, regardless if they're a wrestler, kickboxer, jiu jitsu specialist, etc. ALL OF THEM will just spam takedowns and spam submissions. You can counter everything in this game, so it's basically just you countering their takedown/submission attempts and then attacking them or trying to sub them yourself. It's just annoying and not really fun. Even after being able to stay alive in a match for more than a minute it's just obnoxious.
Game sucks! Perhaps the Dreamcast version would be rated higher but the gameplay seems basically the same.