it's may's gamepro, it's 8 pages, and it's super hard to read.
I read it and came away liking what I saw.
A new piece of info was that it seems like the fighting styles are 'base styles' or at least that's what the author had me believe. He said you can train in certain areas outside your base at least a little bit. word for word:
"these styles give fighters a different base to work from but do not exclusively limit their training of techniques to their preffered style."
Another thing is skills; standing striking, standing kicks, clinch, ground striking, takedowns, clinch grappling, ground grappling, and submissions - those all have a offensive and defensive component that apparently can be trainined.
attributes are strength, speed, and cardiovascular conditioning - these have floor/ceiling levels for different weights. So lightweights can't have more than X strenght, while Heavy's can't have more than X Cardio and so on. Apparantly it says you can 'train physical attributes, and use sparring to improve skills'
So simulated fighting can increase skills somehow, and probably I'm guessing minigames can improve base attributes.
In carreer modes you can purchase better equipment for your gym, "guest training in other camps to learn new tricks", and get sponsors and do some promotional work.
From what I understand, you may be able to move to better gym's? I know you start at a 'UFC gym" which are quckly popping up in reality. You also have to "balance your activity with the proper amount of rest"
So the career mode sounds like it could be promissing. If they include a sense of what's going on outside your own fighter's little world it could be really great.
The one thing I'm not sure on is the base style thing. I'm assuming say you have boxer/wrestler that you have higher starting 'standing strike' offense and defence as well as great 'takedown and takedown defense' but that you can train in sparring to improve 'submissions' for example. I'm not sure how much technique overlap there will be since to perform many subs that would technically be jiu jitsu.
anyway, where's the demo!
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