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UFC RULES

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 40
Date: December 05, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the best UFC game there is. The Playstation one was a joke, and the Dreamcast version was fun enough. But this one takes the cake. The best fighting game graphics I have ever seen, blood, sweat, it's all there in perfect detail. The fighting engine is amazing, and the extras like create-a-fighter are great!!! Besides high profile titles like Oddworld and Halo, this is the REASON to own an Xbox.

looks good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 17
Date: January 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

the game looks pretty good just needs option to create a kickboxer.

Not Good At All

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: February 22, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is bad! And not in a good way. I have not been overly impressed with any of the XBox titles to date. And this game is no exception. The create a character is a cool option. To bad all the ones you create will [stink]. I thought WWF Raw was bad. It is a master piece compared to this game. The graphics are great and that is about all that stands out with this game. The bottom line is this game is just not overly impressive. That's to bad. If the XBox doesn't get some great or even good games out quick it will not be around much longer. Save your money. This game stinks!

Excellent game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: February 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have 3 friends who actually compete in the UFC, one is featured in the game.

I loved the dreamcast version, spent several hours a day playing it when I was laid off from work. Just my luck, this Xbox version comes out right after I got laid off again.

It's not quite as good as the dreamcast version, less features, for instance, no career mode. The arcade feature of the game is a blast and allows you to unlock extra characters, such as Ice-T a couple of chicks and this guy "Mask" who kicks mucho... The regualr UFC mode is exactly the same as the dreamcast version.

Graphics are good, not great. It's just a little better graphicswise than the dreamcast version. The sound is horrible but the action in the game makes up for it since you wont have much time to listen to the guys grunt. It's very playable with a large learning curve. They really [messed] up not including a tutorial for it. I've pretty much got the game whooped right now only because the moves and such are just like the dreamcast version.

If you like fighting games, they dont get much better than this. If you like the UFC this is a must have.

Good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: February 24, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Having just bought this game today, I haven't had a chance to take full advantage of all the characters yet, nor have I mastered most of the moves. However, I am very pleased with this game thus far.
The game's graphics are excellent, and the fighters move at a believable speed. The game will be even better after you master a particular fighter, and find a worthy opponent. I can see a lot of enjoyment coming out of the two-player feature of this game.
On the negative side, some people might be disappointed with how quickly a fight can end. Even if your fighter has full strength, if he suddenly gets caught in a submission hold, it's over. The biggest problem is probably the complete lack of direction from the instruction manual. You have to stop the fight to see a full list of your character's moves, and even then, there is no real information on what the move is - the game just shows you what buttons you can push to do a move, and not what that move may be.
A suggestion I would like to make for future versions of this game would be the inclusion of a training mode, where you can see every move your fighter can do while working with a "dummy" fighter. Overall, I am still very pleased with this game. People who were let down by the pitiful "WWF Raw" might want to consider giving this game a try.

Great graphics, more of a fighting game than pro wrestling.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: February 26, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Welcome to the Octagon. This is an amazing mixed martial arts game (fighting / wrestling), where you can chose from 25 real athletes from the UFC roster (like Tito Ortiz, Josh Barnett, Dan Severn, Frank Shamrock, Mark Coleman, Mark Kerr). Each fighter has a different fighting style, such as Jujitsu, Judo, Karate, Pit Fighting, Freestyle Wrestling and Submission styles. So you can pick a fighter suited to your playing style, such as some fighters have devastating punches, kicks and combos, others have grapples, takedowns and submissions, and still others have enough endurance and stamina to keep coming back! This game is different from wrestling games and its more suited as a fighting game with its fast paced and quick matches of 3 rounds of 5 minutes each. The gameplay is easy and very smooth, as there are four buttons, Right Kick, Left Kick, Right Punch, Left Punch, then from there, you can press Right Kick and Right Punch simultaneously to do a shoot (dive in), and press Left Kick and Left Punch to do a takedown. With a shoot and a takedown you mount your opponent in true UFC style either to beat them up with the punch buttons or slap a quick submission on by pressing a combination of buttons. It really only takes 10 minutes to learn how to play. To block you merely hold back, and the game offers so many combinations of punches and kicks to create incredible combinations. The name of this game is, aggression, because the matches are so fast paced you can finish the matches in a matter of seconds with either a knockout or a submission. With submissions they happen very quick, so once you get a submission you immediately win, but expect to be countered or blocked from the submission! The fighters are huge on the screen, the graphics, blood and animation of this game are great, and you can even hear the crowd's comments, however these are all one on one fights, so players may get bored quickly with the lack of matches. This is more of a fighting game than a professional wrestling game.

Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I just got this game the other night. The graphics are incredible. The gameplay is great. I still haven't mastered the submission moves and counters to submissions but it's a lot of fun. I can't wait to play against someone else. The game is very realistic, that's what I like the best. It's different than normal fighting games. All the characters have special moves but most are only documented by pressing pause in the game and then looking at a grid. The grid shows the buttons you have to hit. Some of the characters have documented moves in the book as well. I read another review that didn't like the part about how fast a match can end. Well if you're a UFC fan you know, it can turn at any moment. Someone can be winning and then get knocked the f*&# out.

Buy at your own risk!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

First the game was delayed 3 months!
**When I played the game (which I rented) all of the buttons were not mapped correctly, that is why some people are having a hard time executing the moves.
**I had to manually remap the buttons.
**There are horizontal lines that cut through the screen during game play.
**The game play slows down during some camera angles.
**Where is the sweat, bruises, and blood they claimed to have?
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**It's too easy!

Very Disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: March 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being a big fan of NHB fighting, with many Pride, KOTC, IFC, Battlecade etc. DVD's, I looked forward to this game with great anticipation, but was sadly dissapointed. The graphics that were highly rated in previews, seem pretty average compared to those of DoA3, but the camera angles are done well, and do not intefere with controlling the fighters (as in the terrible charachter control of Silent Hill 2).

My main gripes are :-

1) lack of a training option - this would have made the game much more fun to learn and play
2) A useless manual that gives very brief and bad instructions on moves and strikes.
3) lack of "retry" option - in exhibition matches after EVERY bout, you are returned to the menu, and must reselect your fighter. Come on guys, just a quick retry option would save having to wait so long between every bout.
4) The fight intros look nice to start with but quickly get boring when they all look the same. They can be bypassed with a couple of clicks, but once again slows the game and deters from the action. More variety would have kept this interesting.
5) The game was advertised as being "bloody", but even with the gore turned up to maximum, I have yet to see anything except a few splashes of blood on the canvas. What happened to the bruises and cuts people were expecting.
6) A lot of moves seem missing or very difficult to perform. Still not seen a headbutt or elbows, sidemount or half-guard, and even knees are very difficult to use (once again a good manual would have helped).
7) So far low leg strikes seem to be far too effective, and can end most fights very quickly. How realistic is this, remember the one and half hours it took Sakuraba to use this taking out Gracie?
8) It is very difficult to keep the bout going for long. It is true that real fights can end quickly, but backing away from a clinch is far too slow and difficult to perform, which means slowing down or "holding" to catch your breath as in most real bouts is almost impossible.
9) No demo mode - the game intro of real fight footage just starts playing again. If there was a reasonable demo, or even better random AI fights, this would at least allow players to see what moves are possible in the game.

Without the detailed instructions on moves, it almost turns into a random keyboard basher (ala DoA3 - but al least that game describes the moves for each key combination). Trying to find out what is possible becomes very frustrating, and because there is no training option, this has to be done against a live opponent, who'll submit or beat ...[you up] before you can test what a key combiantion actually does. People will say "there is the moves option on the menu", but this just tells you which keys can be pressed in each situation, it doesn't tell you what they do!

I know they are trying to make money, but at [this amount of money] per game, I do not think it is too much to ask for the full instructions with the game. Oh well, have ordered the Strategy Guide, and hope that the game gets better with it.

dont even think about getting this game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I have played this game, and their are two many things wrong with is. first their is no point to it, their is not enought action and the game is just boring

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