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Might as well get into a barroom brawl

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: March 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

No real martial arts, aside from the standard UFC "punch me, then I'll punch you" garbage.

I was hoping that with a system based on the styles of martial artists we'd get something beyond "Street fighting" and "Grappling"

While it can provide some passing entertainment, it's not much good beyond that.

Can't Get Enough of UFC

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I can't stop playing this game. It is addictive, especially when playing with friends. I don't know what some of these reviewers are talking about.

One of them complains that "the game would be better if the fights lasted longer than thirty seconds..." For anyone who watches UFC they would know that a lot of fights do last only thirty seconds...just yesterday I watched a bout where [this guy] took a guy to the ground and elbowed him in the head six or seven times. That bout was over in about 15 seconds. UFC isn't trying to be Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. It's focus is on realism, and if you drop someone on their head ten seconds into the fight it will knock them out. Besides, if you practice a lot and fight someone of equal skill it won't be over in thirty seconds...not by a long shot.

Anyway, the graphics are spectacular and I liked how Crave didn't skimp on the details. For example, the referee actually stays in the ring and is just as detailed as the fighters.

The control scheme is simple to memorize and the moves aren't impossible to pull off like in many other fighting games. Their are counters and moves aplenty.

I enjoyed the carreer mode as well. It features fighters with tons of fighting styles that you can train and put up against your friends or the Computer. Crave made so that if you want good fighter you have to train train train, and it doesn't happen in a day. Infact, I spent about two months leveling up my best fighter and now I dominate the Octagon. This is also realistic, UFC fighters go through a lot of training and conditioning in order to fight just one time.

This is a spectacular game... There is nothing more satisfying, for example, than beating Tito Ortiz for the gold title with a character that you created and trained...wow.

What The Heck?

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Hey this game would be ok if the matches could last more than 5 seconds!!! But the graphics are the best I have ever seen in any fighting or sports game ever!! I suggest renting this one first!

Are you ready?

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: October 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Good game, awesome graphics, sound and simple controls. Fails in replay value.

Dont Buy It (But read the review to find out why)

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I would probablay have liked this game better if it didn't break within the first couple times of play. My DC won't even read the disc (and this isn't from abuse), and it reads all the other discs fine. I can't return it because it has already been opened, ...so I'm screwed. I highly advise you not to buy this game.

Good for one, a blast for two.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

UFC for Dreamcast turned out to be a pleasant surprise. After wrestling and fighting games seemed to explore every fantastic form of fighting imaginable, along comes UFC with the freshest take of them all--realism. This isn't suplexes and piledrivers, or fireballs and fatalities, it's hard low kicks, leverage maneuvers, and pure submission holds. The developers took special care to depict movement and effect as realistically as possible, and it shows. Not only that, but the game is beautiful. This is how a wrestling game should look (RAW is WAR for XBox actually will, but that's a review for the future.) The crowd and ring is beautifully detailed, and the fighters look gritty and mean. Although the fights are often over in less than thirty seconds, it's a credit to the game's realism. You put a man in an armbar in real life, he'll tap out, unlike the WWF, where it's just another hold. This game tries to mimic real fighting. The weakest points are the one player mode. After a bunch of solo bouts, it gets repititious, and the create-a-fighter is, well, not that creative. But get a bunch of your friends together, and the game really opens up. Nothing like a UFC tourney in your living room to liven up the day. If you're a big fighting game fan, pick this up (it's cheap.) If not, give it a rent and decide if realism makes it more interesting.

A Pure Wrestling Game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

this is not your typical wrestling game. if you can hook a submission hold on someone it takes them out.....imediately. and you have to wear down your opponents before attempting some moves because otherwise they will counter them. however,because of some of these the game loses points. when you start off the matches will be short. either you will totally kick butt or you will totally get you butt kicked. when starting off the game is not easy,but if you give it a little time it will grow on you.

Better than WWF

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: August 07, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is as close as a game can be made to the real thing. WWF is okay, but this is real fighting transferred into a brilliant game. It's not perfect, but it sure does come close. If it were any closer to the real thing it wouldn't be as fun to play. Hours of fun gaming due to all the options like career. If you like fighting games this is a must. If you like no holds barred fighting, then you will love this game.

Ultimate Fighting Championship - A Gaming Masterpiece

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 02, 2001
Author: Amazon User

In the brutal world of UFC, combatants fight each other in the octagon until one man in either unconscious, or submits due to pain. The same can be said for the UFC video game, which takes the popular federation of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and puts it onto a game disc. Crave Entertainment has done an outstanding job on this game. The graphics are amazing and the character animations are almost up to par with the jaw dropping graphics of Shenmue. The controls are quite easy to master with proper practice. The gameplay is unlike any other fighting game in the way that every move has it's own counter move, which makes facing the computer an actual challenge and makes for more balanced fights.

There are a few different modes to choose from in the game. There is UFC Mode, in which you take one of the many fighters of the UFC and go through a tournament to win the UFC Silver Championship. Then there is Champion Road which is available after completing UFC Mode. In this mode you must defend your title against 12 fighters in a row. The next mode is Career mode in which you create a fighter of your own and train him to the top. This create-a-fighter mode is not as detailed as the ones in THQ's most recent WWF games, but it is very good in it's own right. Other modes include exhibition mode, training mode, and tournament mode.

This game is one of the many gems made for the Sega Dreamcast and if you are a fan of UFC you will not be disappointed. However if you are a fan of professional wrestling you may be turned off due to the fact that UFC does not use high flying tactics and it doesn't have the soap opera story-lines. I do feel though that if you are not a fan this game has the possibility to turn you into one.

Not for everyone

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 31, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This game is for those hardcore fighting game fans. . .

It's not for kids. This is not fantasy violence but simulated violence. It's very realistic, it is the most realistic fighting game ever made. This the only game that I have seen that displays martial arts in a realistic form.

KEEP AWAY FROM KIDS!

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