Fighting games are not my genre, but after having UFC 4 in my list for over a year, I thought, I give it a try. And I have to say, it was much more fun, than I expected. I like the realistic approach compared to typical arcade titles like street fighter. Career Mode is also fun.

After a while, I decided to play on a harder difficulty. The opponents act much smarter and more realistic, you really have to keep your guard up and manage your stamina, or otherwise you're gonna get knocked tf out.

So far so good – the big problems though are takedowns and ground wrestling. It's almost impossible to defend against those. Once your opponent puts you on the ground, you basically can't escape. And it's not for the lack of skill. I'm doing what the instructions say, but it just doesn't work. Overall the controls on grappling, wrestling, submissions and stuff like that, are pretty bad and not fun.

Therefore the hard difficulty is just frustrating, while the normal difficulty is too easy, as you can just knock everybody out – which is fun, but where is the challenge?

All in all, UFC 4 is alright, but can get boring really fast. And I'm not mentioning the microtransactions – at least they're only for cosmetics, but still annoying.