EA Sports MMA Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[ManiacMatt1782]

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everything really has a defense, its hard to cheese, for 1 your stamina will go in the crapper. the only real complaint i have is the cpu tends to get psychic when it wants to on higher difficulties, but the ai is much better than the demo, i didnt see the thousand shots, and i actually had trouble getting a couple fights to the ground vs guys who want to stand and bang like robbie lawler. it is easy to push someone against the cage but you can parry shots and you can defend the takedown. till you get an opening to escape or get a takedown of your own. you can also throw your own knees while being clinched against the cage to take down your opponents stamina, empty stamina means pretty much a free pass.

[ManiacMatt1782]

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Nah this isnt Madden. Go ahead and post.

Seeing a reversal issue again. This time Melvin Manhoef was reversing me like crazy on Hard.

the only time i see reversals is on a major pass attempt. i do see sweeps from full guard, that take you to your opponents half guard, but they are easily defended if you are looking for it. if you dont defend it they will happen at a great rate. you just gotta deny.

[Lakers 24 7]

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everything really has a defense, its hard to cheese, for 1 your stamina will go in the crapper. the only real complaint i have is the cpu tends to get psychic when it wants to on higher difficulties, but the ai is much better than the demo, i didnt see the thousand shots, and i actually had trouble getting a couple fights to the ground vs guys who want to stand and bang like robbie lawler. it is easy to push someone against the cage but you can parry shots and you can defend the takedown. till you get an opening to escape or get a takedown of your own. you can also throw your own knees while being clinched against the cage to take down your opponents stamina, empty stamina means pretty much a free pass.

Sounds good. So I'm guessing it's not as easy to stun people anymore? On the demo apparently you could just come out throwing haymakers, and once the AI is in the stunned animation (or yourself) they become defenseless and makes for an easy KO every time.

[gmac0322]

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the only time i see reversals is on a major pass attempt. i do see sweeps from full guard, that take you to your opponents half guard, but they are easily defended if you are looking for it. if you dont defend it they will happen at a great rate. you just gotta deny.

Hey Matt do you know if you can check really quick to see if they have sliders? thanks

[ManiacMatt1782]

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Sounds good. So I'm guessing it's not as easy to stun people anymore? On the demo apparently you could just come out throwing haymakers, and once the AI is in the stunned animation (or yourself) they become defenseless and makes for an easy KO every time.

the cpu does a much better job of parrying, but if you got 2 guys who are swinging wild then someone is bound to get rocked. its also a little easier to fight out of the tko state by mashing b.

[thelwig14]

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Career mode details would be great...

[aholbert32]

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Bad news folks. The 10-7 rounds are in the retail version. In a round that I took Matt Lindland down 9 times, two judges scored the round 10-7.

[aholbert32]

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Fooled around with CAF. They have the last name of every major non UFC fighter in the game (Noons, Cavalcante, Lombard, A. Silva etc.). EA was very careful not to include any UFC fighter last names. You cant even create Nate Diaz an have the announcer say his name. Which is funny because Nick is in the game.

[360gamerdude]

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Fooled around with CAF. They have the last name of every major non UFC fighter in the game (Noons, Cavalcante, Lombard, A. Silva etc.). EA was very careful not to include any UFC fighter last names. You cant even create Nate Diaz an have the announcer say his name. Which is funny because Nick is in the game.

Well thats a bummer, Have you tried playing against lashley and seeing if he plays as in the demo ? Too many takedowns ?

[EnViiDisnuCCa]

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Does anybody know if a store is selling it early in new York

[Phobia]

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Well guys I can't anything about the single player yet because i honestly have not even started anything in that mode.

But I did get to play about 15 matches between me and Matt. The online chess match this game offers is STELLAR. Me & Matt went back and forth last night, one fight I would win then the next he would. Nothing ever felt like cheese or cheap. The balance from what i can tell so far seems AMAZING.

I don't want to sound to much like I am pumping it up. Wait for you guys to get your hands on the multiplayer part of the game. But I will say, it blows UFC 2010 & 2009 out the water in terms of gameplay.

[Mossfan8480]

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Bad news folks. The 10-7 rounds are in the retail version. In a round that I took Matt Lindland down 9 times, two judges scored the round 10-7.

Fooled around with CAF. They have the last name of every major non UFC fighter in the game (Noons, Cavalcante, Lombard, A. Silva etc.). EA was very careful not to include any UFC fighter last names. You cant even create Nate Diaz an have the announcer say his name. Which is funny because Nick is in the game.

Double letdown. Can't believe the terrible judging made it into the game. You'd think while the team was playing one another they would've gone to decision a couple of times and realized how atrocious the scoring was and changed it.

Going to hold off on buying the game for now. I'll wait to see what they fix in the first patch.

Thanks for the info, aholbert!

[ManiacMatt1782]

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Well guys I can't anything about the single player yet because i honestly have not even started anything in that mode.

But I did get to play about 15 matches between me and Matt. The online chess match this game offers is STELLAR. Me & Matt went back and forth last night, one fight I would win then the next he would. Nothing ever felt like cheese or cheap. The balance from what i can tell so far seems AMAZING.

I don't want to sound to much like I am pumping it up. Wait for you guys to get your hands on the multiplayer part of the game. But I will say, it blows UFC 2010 & 2009 out the water in terms of gameplay.

yeah we had some nice battles last night. fight card is gonna be cool to set up with some other people. hell i could see some guys on here going nuts over the matches we had last night.

[ManiacMatt1782]

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Double letdown. Can't believe the terrible judging made it into the game. You'd think while the team was playing one another they would've gone to decision a couple of times and realized how atrocious the scoring was and changed it.

Going to hold off on buying the game for now. I'll wait to see what they fix in the first patch.

Thanks for the info, aholbert!

see to me this almost seems like an improvement over the whole judging system, i think in a 10 point must system, it states winner gets 10, opponent 9 or less. they need to use the entire 10 points. think about some fights where a guy wins a round but it was kinda close, but all 3 judges see it as 10-9. then the next round the other guy makes an adjustment, and convincingly wins the round, but wasnt given a 10-8 because it wasnt total dominance. Ideally total dominance should be scored 10-1 or 10-2. a convincing round would be in that 10-5 to 10-7 range, and 10-8 or 10-9 would be for close rounds. So honestly I'm kinda happy to see some 10-7s because to me thats a step in the right direction for mma. to be fair i havent seen straight 10-7s like i saw in the demo. also you could fight japanese or vale tudo and have no scores, just the entire fight scored as a winner or loser.

[aholbert32]

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see to me this almost seems like an improvement over the whole judging system, i think in a 10 point must system, it states winner gets 10, opponent 9 or less. they need to use the entire 10 points. think about some fights where a guy wins a round but it was kinda close, but all 3 judges see it as 10-9. then the next round the other guy makes an adjustment, and convincingly wins the round, but wasnt given a 10-8 because it wasnt total dominance. Ideally total dominance should be scored 10-1 or 10-2. a convincing round would be in that 10-5 to 10-7 range, and 10-8 or 10-9 would be for close rounds. So honestly I'm kinda happy to see some 10-7s because to me thats a step in the right direction for mma. to be fair i havent seen straight 10-7s like i saw in the demo. also you could fight japanese or vale tudo and have no scores, just the entire fight scored as a winner or loser.

I'm sorry but thats a copout. This game is supposed to have realistic judging. Its not supposed to be an example of how EA thinks judging should be. I've seen my share of 10-8 and 10-7 rounds in this game. You rarely see 10-8 rounds in real life. I dont think there has been a 10-7 round in MMA history.

Its BS and its the only major issue I see with the game right now. I dont know how you can claim to talk to McCarthy and Shamrock about judging and think that 10-7 rounds are possible. This isnt boxing.

Even playing around with your theory it would cause more issues than it solves. Take the Brock/Carwin fight and lets say its a 3 round fight. Under your theory, Carwin dominated round 1 so he deserves a 10-7 or 10-5 round. So lets say Brock wins the last two but he didnt dominate them and gets a two 10-9 rounds. Brock would lose the fight even though technically he won more rounds than Carwin and controlled the fight.

Anyway, its a bug and EA needs to fix it.