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Re-packaging of Tapout

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: February 01, 2003
Author: Amazon User

While I love MMA (Mixed Martial Arts), a developer has yet to release a MMA game that is exciting enough to keep it interesting. There just isn't the depth of moves and action found in other fighting games. With Pride FC, you won't find anything substantially different than was in Tapout. Different fighters and a new name ain't going to cut it . . .

Better than TapOut

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: February 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is the best fighting game I have ever played! I owned just about every fighting game that came out. Pride FC at last! Fighters like Antonio Nogueira (the heavy-weight title holder who is an expert in brazilian jiu jitsu), Kazushi Sakuraba (a submission wrestler who has defeated the Gracies repeatedly, including the 3 time UFC champion Royce Gracie) and Wanderlei Silva (a muay thai fighter with the nickname 'axe-murderer' who can dish out powerful strikes from both standing and ground positions) are correctly included in this game with their traits intact. The graphics and gameplay are significantly improved over any mixed-martial-arts games to date. Unlike tapout, the fighters can end up in a clinched position, as well as end up with one fighter staying on the ground kicking up while the other remains standing, trying to pick his shots. These themes occur in mixed-martial-arts when the level of competition is at the top. The developers of UFC games ommitted these themes. More realistic variations can be found in Pride FC. The music is taken right out of the actual events. The only con I can think of is that there is no career mode. But, personally, that hardly costs a point. I think games with career modes are tedius and boring. Although the single player mode is great, multiplayer grand prix and single match modes are even better. Good replay value as well. It's made by THQ, who also made "Smackdown! Shut Your Mouth." I'm really looking forward to their next installment. I hope they include fighters like Rickson Gracie and Bob Sapp!!

save your money for a good MMA title

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

First off, I've had the game for a couple of days. This game rates 2 stars since the depth is low, the AI is sometimes ridiculously weak and other times super skilled, and the graphics are only OK. For low depth, you find yourself doing the same few moves again and again. If you were allowed to actually do whatever you wanted with the controller instead of 2 slots for punches, 2 slots for kicks, etc that would have helped a lot. The AI really is pretty bad. By bad I mean inconsistent. Often quite weak, yet sometimes you really get the feeling that no matter what, it wants to win. I would also say that whoever the programmers were, they sure love Silva. He is godlike sometimes. Finally, the graphics were no better than the Dreamcast UFC title. Mind you, the Dreamcast UFC came out years ago. It was great for its time but we should have moved past that by now. The sound is also only OK, at best. Someday a game better than the Dreamcast version of UFC will happen, but not with this title. If you love MMA fighting games this will interest you for a while. I'd suggest renting it.

Great game, similar to Tapout and Throwdown

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its not as easy to knock your opponent out as it is in Throwdown. When your stamina is down you won't get knocked out, you will just be more likely to tap out. The game is pretty damn realistic, when you get on the ground with Royce Gracie and your stamina is low, your pretty much screwed. When Gracie is on the ground top or bottom his health speeds up about 2x of the regular fighter. Gracie is also one of the few who uses kicks on the ground if you see a hay maker coming, kick em in the side it stops the punch very quick and makes your opponents stop throwin those heavy punches. If their a weak puncher they will punch weak.. you get the idea. I still play my UFC Throwdown but I think I'm going to be hooked on one this for a while (not big Gracie fan just great example). I recommend this game to any fans of Tapout or Throwdown because its basically the same thing with better ring entrances and a little bit better graphics.

Great game, similar to Tapout and Throwdown

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Its not as easy to knock your opponent out as it is in Throwdown. When your stamina is down you won't get knocked out, you will just be more likely to tap out. The game is pretty [darn] realistic, when you get on the ground with Royce Gracie and your stamina is low, your pretty much [out of luck]. When Gracie is on the ground top or bottom his health speeds up about 2x of the regular fighter. Gracie is also one of the few who uses kicks on the ground if you see a hay maker coming, kick em in the side it stops the punch very quick and makes your opponents stop throwin those heavy punches. If their a weak puncher they will punch weak.. you get the idea. I still play my UFC Throwdown but I think I'm going to be hooked on one this for a while (not big Gracie fan just great example). I recommend this game to any fans of Tapout or Throwdown because its basically the same thing with better ring entrances and a little bit better graphics.

Best Mixed Martial Arts game yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

UFC Tapout was pretty good, but this game is superb. It lacks a career mode, which all of the game mags point out to ding it down to 8/10. A career mode would be nice but they obviously are saving that for the next Pride FC title.

Awesome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: February 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This blows UFC Tapout out of the water. For the reviewer who complained about the AI being inconsistent its because the creators made the fighters the way they are: good fighters are good and bad fighters are weak. If you're not a fan of MMA (mixed martial arts) you should know that most of the moves that the fighters do are moves they actually do in the ring. So if a fighter is huge puncher he can knock you out with one clean punch regardless of your health or stamina, or you can be submitted regardless of your health or stamina. They went out of their way to make this as realistic as possible.

The feature that takes the cake on this game though is the "Create a Fighter" mode; its unreal and the best I have seen for any fighting game. There are a ton of faces and physical characteristics to choose from (most of the are faces of other fighters that didn't make the game) and a ton of moves to choose from. You can choose a unique move for every position available, it can be a little labor intensive if you want it to be. You can also choose your entrance music, the stance of your fighter, the way he walks when called by the ring announcer, the way he walks to the ring, and the way he celebrates after winning. You can see all of this in "Grand Prix" mode (tournament). If you like fighting type games this is one of the best.

Pride FC by THQ

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: March 17, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Sometimes I wonder if THQ cares about making video games anymore. Its been a long time since they did UFC on playstation 1 and not much has changed. The worst part is the control. While the buttons react alot better then in past fighting games, the button scheme is a mess. This is the same problem they have had with the Smackdown series. Its difficult to remember what direction to push a button when your moving 360 degrees around the ring. I wish they had tried something with the controls like the wrestling games they made for Nintendo 64.
On the upside you get alot of popular fighters to choose from including Sakuraba, Ken Shamrock, Gary Goodridge and Royce Gracie. The graphics are good, but a bit too cartoonish. There is a grand-pre(tournament) mode included to make things more fun. Also included is a create a fighter mode that is pretty good. What I dont understand is how you can only create a 6"4 fighter, but there is a 6"11 fighter in the game. The camera angle is a pretty nice overhead view!

heres my ratings 1(worst) to 5(best)
Sound 3.5(no announcers during the fights)
Graphics 4(they are clean but a bit cartoonish)
Fun Factor 3.5(these fights can be more frustrating then fun)
Replay value 3(you have to be a real PFC fan to keep this)
Controls 3(the reaction is improved, but still frustrating and
non involving)

THINGS THEY NEED TO IMPROVE ON THE NEXT Pride FC
1.)they need to add cuts and bruises to fighters as the fights progress...
2.)The controls need improvement. Submissions should wear you down a bit before you submit so quickly. Reversals happen way too much.
3.)A better create a fighter mode. Its so dissapointing not being able to create a guy bigger then 6"4.

Pride FC

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A avid fan of Pride will 'eventually' love this game. The translation from real-life to a game is incredibly complex. At first glance Pride FC is pale. Graphics could be sharper, limited special moves, limited creativity. However, once you learn the right combination for the fighters you can kick serious ... Takes about an hour to grasp the basics, a lil more to master it on easy level. Although it's fun to have Igor lay the smackdown, replay value is limited. Even though I'm a fan, I wish I bought used. If you never heard of Pride, UFC or MMA just pass it by.

Enough.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 24
Date: April 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

We've had enough of these kind of games already. Buy Def Jam Vendetta instead.

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