EA Sports MMA Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[ManiacMatt1782]

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i think i found the first exploit, sadly a player with classic controls can throw with the other hand really fast off their punch being parried, so parring is useless, you cant sway because they will abuse the body with combos , and the parry that blocks those is useless. against someone who knows what they are doing and just taps away with the left stick for an automatic sprawl even if you shoot mid combo. ea needs to tone this down and fix it. slow down the speed in which these button spammers can swing especially off of being parried.

[Brickz187]

QUESTion guys do you guys use the classic controls or the new controls?

No doubt total control. I have yet to use classic controls, but honestly I don't want to. I hated it in the demo and wasn't going to pick this game up, but I'm glad I did. I'm having way more fun with EA MMA then I did with UFC 2010, and UFC was a great game so that tells you EA is doing something right.

[COMMISSIONERHBK9]

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No doubt total control. I have yet to use classic controls, but honestly I don't want to. I hated it in the demo and wasn't going to pick this game up, but I'm glad I did. I'm having way more fun with EA MMA then I did with UFC 2010, and UFC was a great game so that tells you EA is doing something right.

I love the total strike controls by far more than the classic. I had a hard time with the striking at first but after more than a week with the game. I can throw the strikes I want, when i want now. Plus having all the pass, defend controls on the buttons I like much more.

im going to try total control. i see you just hit the button ffor submission and counter and sprawl. do you have to hold the buttons or just tap it?do you have to rotate anything?

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I am a classic controls guy. Give me buttons over stick moves anyday. TSC makes my thumb hurt with the movement.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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im going to try total control. i see you just hit the button ffor submission and counter and sprawl. do you have to hold the buttons or just tap it?do you have to rotate anything?

For chokeholds, you rotate in the direction of the cursor.

For limb subs, you just tap the button repeatedly until they tap out or you escape. Don't go guns blazing though, just go fast enough that you don't empty out your stamina.

So it is really best to know your fighter. If they good at subs, you can tap fast, if they not, you really got to pace yourself.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Don't you guys just love when you play against a person who don't know the ends and outs of the fighter they choose ? One thing I noticed is that people pick 2 types of fighters.....

1. Fighters with a 90 or higher stand up
2. Fighters with 95 or higher sub.

What the masses don't realize is that everything is broken down to more then just punches and subs.

Stand up rating consists of:

Punch range
Punch speed
Punch power of each hand
Kick range
kick speed
kick power of each foot
Movement speed

Sub rating consists of:

Arm subs
Leg subs
Neck chokes

So I always laugh at people who pick Fedor, Dan Henderson, Classic Bas.....Why ? Because all those guy have power, BUT, they are slow as hell and have soft guts.

Same thing with people choosing classic ken shamrock....Ken has good leg subs, but his arm and neck subs are WEAK. And his sub defense is POOR.

I made this dude tap with Mousai because he choose Ken Shamrock. I took him down, he reverse me, he THOUGHT he was going to ground and pound me in my full guard, I arm barred him, he quit.......

Another guy choose Fedor.....I had Arloski, he thought it was going to be slugfest.....NOT, I kicked him 5 times to the gut, Fedor dropped and I tko'ed him, dude quit.

Another guy had classic Bas, I was Josh Barnett, he had me down, then he choose to stand up in my guard, thinking he was going TKO me, NOT, Barnett has an inverted kneebar move, I inverted kneebarred him, he didn't even see it coming, I don't even think he knew that move was in the game, made him tap, he quit.

Needless to say learn the ins and outs of the fighter you play as. Most power punchers are slow, have poor stamina and weak gut. Same thing with sub guys, just because they are rated 99, don't mean they are good in all 3 sub types and have good sub defense in all 3 sub types.

[PVarck31]

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DAMN IT!!! I gotta stop reading these impressions. Lol. I'm so tempted to get this or just repurchase UFC 10. UFC was just so hard for me and all the KO's mad it unrealistic. I'm off this weekend and may make the jump. Gotta remember to stay away from Phobia. Lol

Dude, get it. It blows UFC out of the water. EA really hit a home run here.

[Phobia]

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Dude, get it. It blows UFC out of the water. EA really hit a home run here.

Didn't they 31. It is flat out fantastic. Excellent balance. Sure anything can use improvements but for a first time effort it is stellar,

[st67]

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I'm not getting it. I've written two large reviews so far and both times it doesn't post. I guess I'll edit this one and just shorten what a said.

Fun game. Lacking a lot (no side control knees, but knees from half-guard?), but hopefully they can improve. Career is much more fun and less tedious.

My main + is that ratings matter. If your chin sucks, you're going down if you try to stand. If you're top level on the ground, you're actually really dangerous from full-guard or on the top.

I said a lot more than that, but neither time did the forum software want to post it.

[360gamerdude]

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I'm not getting it. I've written two large reviews so far and both times it doesn't post. I guess I'll edit this one and just shorten what a said.

Fun game. Lacking a lot (no side control knees, but knees from half-guard?), but hopefully they can improve. Career is much more fun and less tedious.

My main + is that ratings matter. If your chin sucks, you're going down if you try to stand. If you're top level on the ground, you're actually really dangerous from full-guard or on the top.

I said a lot more than that, but neither time did the forum software want to post it.

NO knees in side control = No Buy ??... This is the best fighting game ever made.

[st67]

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NO knees in side control = No Buy ??... This is the best fighting game ever made.

I didn't say it = no buy, I said it was lacking, which it is. I mean - side control knees is a very basic attack.

I certainly wouldn't say best fighting game ever, but I'd say it's my favorite MMA game so far, even over UFC 2009, which I loved.

[Rpommier]

Anyone have any idea how this is selling? It's hard to find people online, yet the reviews ate positive.

I wonder if it can be like Demon's Souls and sell good through word of mouth.

[daniverson1973]

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i just picked up this game this morning and FREAKING LOVE IT!!!!!!!!

havent played ONLINE YET, and dont think i will for while considering how hard it is said to be
im gonna get some days/weeks of offline practice in first

some overall impression/details:

the game plays WAY faster than UFC and I LOVE THAT
yeah, of course the commentary is weak and very little to it
of course the UFC fight presentation dominates EAMMA (kind of like NBA2K dominates LIVE with presentation)
but graphics and gameplay and gameflow/speed are WHAT I CARE ABOUT
and this game ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!

i recommend at least renting this game if like THQ's UFC game, theres so much more to it than the demo
i rented it last night, and realized i had to buy it IMMEDIATELY
FEDOR IS AMAZING

[Phobia]

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I just won one of the online belts. Currently holding the Welterweight championship strike force belt!!! Still undefeated in ranked so far. 7-0!!!

[Phobia]

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9-0 Now and finished with my first Gogoplata. I am not letting this belt go LOL

Dangerous off his back
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