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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!

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

Very bad game

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

PLEASE DO NOT BUY. This is a terrible game and a waste of your money. It was so bad, I bought it and sold it back for less than 40% of its price in order to get rid of it. This game was not worth waiting two months for its release. It deserves 0 stars, but 1 is the minimum.

Very dissappointing

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: March 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I waited for this game to arrive with great anticipation and wow what a dissappointment, there is nothing that makes this game standout. The graphics are good but nothing special, the lack of being able to replay a fight without starting all over again totally sucks, especially when you are first learning. If you want a fighting game look elsewhere. I have owned the game for 2 days and will be immediately selling it.

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.

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!

Ok but matches go to fast

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am a owner of this game and i think it is the worst game i own. for one thing the matches are to fast all it takes is a couple hits and punches and there down. so if you want a game like this i recomend WWWF Raw or another fighting game.

LAAAAME.....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game could be good. If they had a more variety of moves and a more variety of types of matches and arenas. It does'nt have some of the great people I though it would like Ken Shamrock and some others. But It lacks variety. I'd choose WWF Raw over this anyday. This game is straight up GARBAGE. The people who rate this game good obviously don't have good taste or they are just too big of UFC fans. Please for your own sake DO NOT BUY THIS GAME ever.

Somewhere in the middle.

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Being a big UFC fan, and having dabbled with martial arts and ground-fighting in the past, I was looking forward to this Xbox title above all others. The screeenshots looked great, and the official web page sent me into a frenzy. I never owned a Dreamcast, but I have friends who loved that version, and others that loathed the Playstation edition. I was hoping that the designers had ironed out any bugs from those installments and the Xbox would provide a better system to present the complexities of true NHB, mixed martial arts fighting.

Unfortunately, after the long wait, it could not live up to my high expectations. While the designers have done a great job making the fighters look like their real-world counterparts, they could have done a better job on the shading and textures. All the graphics look a little unfinished to me, and when the action gets fast, they can get really glitchy. I've noticed that when throwing punches and kicks, the fighters tend to flicker or blink. Once you notice it, it becomes hard to ignore and very irritating.

The gameplay is a little lopsided as well and it's far more strike-oriented than I'd like. In the arcade mode the first night I owned the game, I got 47 victories in a row using Tito Ortis and all I had to do was punch, punch, punch. I liked the ground-fighting a lot more (which isn't surprising for those who know me) but victory seems to have a lot more to do with chance than skill. While I really liked the realistic submissions and takedowns, most of the grappling is clunky and not very fluid at all. It seems that they have a ways to go before they can really simulate the feel and flow of this type of fighting.

It's not all bad though. I really liked the create your own fighter feature. I was disappointed that Royce Gracie wasn't in the game, so I made my own version of him. There are lots of different advantages you can use to specialize your fighter, and several different fighting styles. On the down side, I wanted to create Tank Abbot, but the game doesn't seem to offer a model for the less "defined" body types. Seems sort of unfair. I was hoping the unlocked characters would be actual fighters, but most of them turned out to be fictional characters more at home in a "Street Fighter" game than the UFC. The two exceptions are referee John McCarthy and, my personal favorite Ice T. Yes, that Ice T. I got a good chuckle out of that one.

So far the big saving grace of the game is playing with a friend. I played it for a couple of days alone and was very disappointed. When a buddy came over and we started playing it, I warmed up to the game considerably. The AI is nothing compared to a real person, which is true of most games. This game is a great distration and the quickness of the matches is nice when you don't have time to get into something long-term like NFL fever or Halo. It's a pleasant distraction.

I would suggest to anyone looking to buy this game: rent it first. It has it's high points, and big UFC fans will undoubtedly be interested, but the flaws are not easily ignored.

Fast and steep learning curve

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 18, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It's a good game, specially if you play it with a friend, but the move list doesn't say what are you doing. For example, it tells you that standing up when moving forward you can press X and Y, or A and B, or B and Y, or X and A, or A, or B, or X, or Y, and so on, but it doesn't tell you what each keystroke does. You have to experiment a lot and start to figure it out and it takes time because it doesn't respond exactly the same, specially if your opponent is making his/her own moves.

The level of gore doesn't do a lot, just add some blood drops on the matt on its max level, but that's it.

The fights can be very very fast, specially if you and your opponent don't know exactly what moves are doing, and that will happen because you won't know wich combination of buttons to press in each situation you'll encounter. You will probably end up pressing a couple of combinations for every match and that's it, or maybe connect the other control and play against your self to try to figure out what does what and how each character respond to what you have found.

I really recommend that you find yourself a guide or something if you're planning to buy this title. Or rent it beforehand.

All that said, it's a fun game.

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