EA Sports UFC 2 Beta Available, Post Your Impressions Here

[Money99]

How's the overall presentation of this series?
Do you notice a difference when fighting as rookie compared to when you're going for the belt?
How about the commentary?
How's the Career Mode immersion? Does it feel like you're part of a greater universe?
Are there updates on what's going on elsewhere in the UFC?
And can you control more than one fighter in the same career mode?
(You could control 2 fighters at once in Evander Holyfield boxing. I loved that. I'd always have the careers separated by approximately 20 fights so while one's career is winding down, another is just starting up).

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Money99

How's the overall presentation of this series? Do you notice a difference when fighting as rookie compared to when you're going for the belt? How about the commentary? How's the Career Mode immersion? Does it feel like you're part of a greater universe? Are there updates on what's going on elsewhere in the UFC? And can you control more than one fighter in the same career mode? (You could control 2 fighters at once in Evander Holyfield boxing. I loved that. I'd always have the careers separated by approximately 20 fights so while one's career is winding down, another is just starting up).

Career mode details havent been released so I cant speak on that.

[Money99]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Career mode details havent been released so I cant speak on that.

How was it in UFC 1? And can you indicate whether this mode was provided a big upgrade?

[kingsofthevalley]

Wonder why some people still have access to offline and some don't?

[Pappy Knuckles]

It's going to be interesting to see how the A.I. looks in retail. In UFC 1, I played on the hardest difficulty exclusively. I won most of my matches, but they were made artificially tougher than they should of been due to the ridiculous about of parries that they CPU pulled off.

I've been running nothing but sparring sessions on the Beta since online ended and I'm destroying the CPU on the feet in most of my fights now. On the ground they make things interesting because I'm still not that great there, but they don't seem to try to land very many strikes at all. I hope the game is well balanced. I want to be challenged, but fairly challenged.

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pappy Knuckles

It's going to be interesting to see how the A.I. looks in retail. In UFC 1, I played on the hardest difficulty exclusively. I won most of my matches, but they were made artificially tougher than they should of been due to the ridiculous about of parries that they CPU pulled off. I've been running nothing but sparring sessions on the Beta since online ended and I'm destroying the CPU on the feet in most of my fights now. On the ground they make things interesting because I'm still not that great there, but they don't seem to try to land very many strikes at all. I hope the game is well balanced. I want to be challenged, but fairly challenged.

I think you will be happy with what they did at retail. I cant go into detail but it will be less parry heavy.

Also my take from the beta is the AI's aggressiveness is partially based on who you are fighting. For example when fighting Wonderboy, it seems as if he pushes the pace more than somebody like Hughes.

[davidbix]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

I think you will be happy with what they did at retail. I cant go into detail but it will be less parry heavy. Also my take from the beta is the AI's aggressiveness is partially based on who you are fighting. For example when fighting Wonderboy, it seems as if he pushes the pace more than somebody like Hughes.

Were you able to find out which difficulty setting the sparring is set to? Or is it controlled via a global difficulty setting that I missed?

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by davidbix

Were you able to find out which difficulty setting the sparring is set to? Or is it controlled via a global difficulty setting that I missed?

I havent confirmed that. I'll ask.