EA Sports MMA Available Now, Post Your Impressions Here

[koolbubbaice]

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Dana white needs to swallow his pride & give the lic to EA.. Of course we are stuck with thq for another 6 or so yrs.. That will show EA.. EA gets MMA.. THQ doesn't.. I also believe in Karma. He was so happy when Fedor lost.. Now his meal ticket got crushed last night.

The Demo is unbelievable. When I lost, I felt it was my own fault.. I always felt cheated with the UFC 10.. Stand up takes little skill with 90% of the fights ending in KO or TKO..

I actually choked out Jake Shields with Miller in under 2 minutes of the first round.. This would have never happened in UFC 10.. & Just like in real life. Jake Shields avoids stand up to a fault.. He always waited for me to strike to give him a chance to take me down.. I really felt like I fought him.

The parry system while on your back is a thing a beauty.. Clinch transitions is like a ballot.. Parrying against the cage is also fun & almost like a mini game.. Defense actually means something in this game.. & I hear the retail version is even better. The controls are 'basic', yet hard to master IMO... Very noob friendly to those new to MMA..

EA has built a great foundation.. Imagine ANY fight going 20 minutes with UFC 10 fight engine. I'd rather have a bare bones MMA game that gets it right with a heavy emphasis on multi player.. Then a game that has great presentation with more options, but with a broken engine..

Kudo's to EA. 2K11/MMA sports game of the yr.

[DJ]

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Choke Battle:
Left stick - Rotate to find the vibration then try to chase it once you got it (it always moves but never "jumps"). Let go or stay still to regain stamina (low stamina = smaller vibration range).

BOTH corners are fighting for the same sweep spot (red = red corner found it, blue = blue corner found it, purple = both corners found it and it's down to grapple defense Vs. Choke submission skill).

The most important thing here is the more stamina you have the bigger your sweet spot "tolerance", so (as with everything) manage your stamina. The faster you move the stick, the more stamina you drain (it's like frantically struggling to get out rather than being methodical in your movements).

The longer the struggle lasts the larger that sweet spot becomes for both fighters (this stops battles from lasting forever).

When defending, your grapple defense stat and stamina determines the size of your sweet spot, when attacking your choke submission skill and stamina determines the size of your sweet spot. The size of that spot makes a HUGE difference in how easy it is to pull out the choke or escape.

Thanks for posting that. I wasn't sure of what to do in the demo when that circle showed up on the screen.

Nice artwork in your avatar, btw.

[TheShizNo1]

Ok, the game definitely keeps me coming back for more. Demo really doesn't do the full game justice. The submissions are unbelievable. Fought a guy who kept going for chain submissions in one the 20 min fights, I kept getting out, I was zoned in as if I were watching a real match.

I hope EA doesn't get the license, id rather have these different types of matches and venues than a UFC game.

[Darkleaf]

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I have not had this much fun since UFC 09 this game is an absolute blast. Saw my first one punch KO after about 60-70 fights, and it happened to me. I was just stunned to see it happen, my fighter was better in every way I just went in too confident thinking it would be easy. I just leaned into a perfect uppercut and dropped like a rock it was my first loss with that career and it was to an absolute tomato can 20 seconds in the first round..Loved it!

Career will hold me for a long time, fighting Fedor 2 times splitting one each with my Fedor clone was amazing I'm about to go into fight number 3 and I'm actually kinda nervous haha.

[Jukeman]

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What difficulty are you guys playing on for career mode?

[King10Sooted]

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What difficulty are you guys playing on for career mode?

I have mine on hard. I am 7-1.

[Darkleaf]

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What difficulty are you guys playing on for career mode?

I went medium for my first 2 careers , now I'm up to hard and it's just right for me.

[Flightwhite24]

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Just won a listing for this on Ebay for $35 plus $4 for shipping. I should be playing by mid-week

[King10Sooted]

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Just won a listing for this on Ebay for $35 plus $4 for shipping. I should be playing by mid-week

You got a hell of a deal. Nice job.

[n8ccwa]

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I just soccer kicked a guy in the face and then stomped on his head. Never even dreamed of doing that in UFC. This game is awesome!!

[TheShizNo1]

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How do you do these kicks?

[sb24]

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What difficulty are you guys playing on for career mode?

Legend. Going well I won the belt and lost it and had trouble getting a winning streak going to get another shot. Damn good balance if you ask me.

[thorne666]

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Ah,what the hell!
The time has come for me to crack the package open and finally experience what so many of you are!

[st67]

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How do you do these kicks?

Unfortunately, it seems you can only do them when your opponent is stunned. Then hitting the kick button when they're down will do the kick or stomp.

[Sandman42]

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If you're in the sprawl you can hit them with some knees to the head. Haven't been able to do kicks other than them being rocked though.