Haz, I've never met you, but I think I love you. Thank you for speaking for all of us MMA fans who find this game fails to reflect our sport.
I've been following MMA since its inception in 1993. I've been playing MMA style video games since Fire Pro G on PS1 in 1999 on a modded american system. I've played the original UFC games on PS2, the original PRIDE game, the MMA mode in King of the Colosseum, Undisputed, EA MMA etc,. MMA is my favorite sport, video games have been a hobby of mine since I was a child.
UFC 3 is what casual fans want UFC to be. It is not an accurate representation of the sport.
Striking in MMA is not non-stop action.
For the most part, most major sporting video games mimic the flow and pace of their actual sport.
UFC 3 does not.
Is UFC 3 trying to be a sports game or a fighting game? In needs to figure that out.
Two of the three biggest elements of MMA, grappling and clinching, are terribly implemented in this current iteration of UFC and only further the "stand and bang" mentality that is a cancer to our sport.
If EA is trying to make a fighting game with UFC rosters, go for it, but I won't be buying. If EA is actually trying to emulate the sport of MMA and create a realistic simulation, it has failed.
Yes-men make you feel good, but valid criticism taken to heart and applied makes you good.
Now back to UFC 221.
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