:foc:

After the Lesnar clinic, I took Nog out late in the first, even though he had dominated me on the ground.. I somehow got up from his side control and WHAM head kick into mounted pounded his face..

:(

Then beat Vera in a stand up war..

Then I got a shot at Gabe Gonzaga who was the champ and I destroyed him.. Bout to defend against Kongo cause he KO'd me when I first was trying to "step up" and fight higher ranked guys..

Still scared to fight Lesnar again..

:(

I only have one year left on my deal according to Dana, gonna try to go for some submissions

I'm getting pretty sick of Wanderlei Silva kneeing the shit out of my face...

Fuck, I went on a win/loss/win/loss streak for a bit when I was trying to step my game up and face the big boys in Light Heavy... Houston Alexander KOd me pretty bad. Avenged that with ground and pound. Then I win against Jardine (gate's open!). Chuck Liddell KOs me really bad. Then Tito gets a lucky KO with a bitch ass jab. Then fucking Forrest "Superman's Fist" Griffin proceeds to KO me. But I kept at it, tightened up my kick game, ramped up my striking defence and blasted through Machida, Rampage and the champ, Rashad all via kick to the head. Since then I've avenged my losses to Chuck and Forrest. Tito's dropped down the rankings like a little bitch so I cant fight him again. :mad: Now I'm 9 wins strong and probably gonna give Rampage a third title shot.

Seriously, my kicks are ridiculous now. Tekken combos up and down the octagon, KOs left and right. I haven't ground and pounded out anyone out since Funky/Rampage II.

Sig'd :lol:

Scratch liking the demo, now I'm getting more familiar with the grappling elements, I love the demo.

I am definitely getting this. And I'm not even a UFC fan. :-\

Baird likes grappling men

Lesnar destroyed me in my second title defense.. Dana White emailed me saying how disappointed he was and if I continued to fight like that I should go back to maineventing small time promotion in Jackson, MS..

lol

:(

Retired as UFC Middleweight Champion, 34-2, UFC Hall of Famer

Yeah, when the fuck do they offer the hall of fame? I'm 27-4 and ever fight has been a KO except the first, which went to decision in my favour.

I think you have to master both the striking and ground parts of your game (Lvl 3 on both) and get all the awards at least once (match of the night, ko of the night and submission of the night)

never got submission of the night, but finished everything including an autobiography

I'm at a tremendous 7-9 record here. Welterweight div. No prior experience. Went with a Muay tai or however you spell it style. Should have went kick boxer cuz my guy cant kick to the head yet..thus my struggles.

spar and get your kick defense up

Focus on clinch striking.

God fucking damn it. Getting really tired of wrestlers raping the shit out of me. Managed to take Koscheck to the second round, but hestill ko'ed me with relative ease.

Then sanchez slaughtered me in the first round.

Cock-sucking fucktwats. Bet they became wrestlers because they like touching balls.

Currently about 11-1 and the Lightheavyweight Champion in my Career mode. Getting a lot better with my groundgame and on Takedowns, in my last fight I managed to beat Wanderlei Silva fairly easily, which suprised me considering my first attempt at the Career mode he was impossible for me to beat.

Rampage was a hard fight too, actually restarted it about 15 times because I wanted to get the title there and then, in the end settled for a tactic of staying out of his clinch range and going for a mix of takedowns and kicks to the the head.

have a boxer with 100 level hands.... hes fun to play my friends with now. KOed lesnar with one punch

Toughest fight in the light heavy weight division has been Rashad Evans. He was number 2 contender for the title when I fought him, we went the distance and I won a majority decision 28-27, 28-27, 28-28. Was an awesome fight. I'm now the world champion at 18-0 after taking out Rampage for the title. I have also since ducked Rashad at every corner. (fuck you i want my achievement. :mad: )

Yeah Rashad Evans is tough, lost the championship to him in my first defence after I somehow destroyed Rampage Jackson in under a minute and a half. Floored him with a spinning back elbow and just wailed away untill the ref stopped it. Currently at 21-7-0, I think not sparing early in my career has hurt me, due to me not realising that it was the only way to raise stats. Am loving this game so much.

I'm in the same position. I was never bothered by UFC or MMA before this. But since playing the demo, I'm getting the game as soon as I can afford it. And I've since become a UFC fan.

You realise by constantly unloading punches you're draining your energy right? Which is exactly when flash KOs/subs are likely to happen. You go all guns blazing and don't finish you're in trouble.

Yeah, turn the stamina bar on in the options. using that has been my savior.

Just played the demo. So getting this game.

Can you do like Rampage vs BJ Penn or something?


Does anyone have a list of the fighters in this?

NM i found a list. Man this is impressive. I may actually have to go by a 360 now.

I would be pretty upset if i were Clay Guida heh. I just read that the UFC offered him money to cut his hair for the game ( or maybe it was THQ not sure ).

lol 360

I swear i should have like 9 or 10 more wins if it weren't for people quitting.

OK cc I was away for a week and now I'm back, we can fight soon.

I should be on for most of tonight.

Just exchanged wins with d-mac. Two of the best fights i had online. Still pissed he made Spencer Fisher tap.

I started a career with a CAF. I went 10-0 before losing to Serra in a PPV main event. I haven't picked it up yet again. All that momentum just to lose. It's a bit depressing.

I beat Shogun in 40 seconds after he submitted me the first time we fought

I think I would have won the decision in that last one.

That was incredibly epic. I was pissed that submission the round before didn't work.

the classic fights option can suck my balls

Retired my first fighter with the Light Heavy Title. Didn't make the HOF tho.

Yeah, fuck. How the hell am I supposed to rear naked choke people in round 3? That means that not only do I have to beat him down without KOing him all the way to the third, but I've gotta pass his guard (easy enough) and he has to try to roll over while I block him from getting guard again and then get the submission (highly unlikely).

You can always try to sprawl if they go for a takedown - if your defence is good enough you'll hold position and can transition to side -> RNC right there.

Your major transitions are usually rightstick down-right to up-left, then roll it to up right, which usually leads to an escape or, at the very least, back to guard.

Just finished my first career, won back the light-heavyweight title from Evans with a second round KO. Finished 27-7-0, no hall of fame though.

Going through on lightweight now, up to 8-0-0 and sparring the crap out of my sparring partner and doing better in the training camps.

i am a fucking beast online with hendo. i love all the kids who use silva a get pissed everytime i counter their head kicks with a takedown then pound the hell out of them on the ground

funnies moment for me:

I KO Stephan Bonner with a head kick during a career. Bonner lands face up at the feet of Steve Mazzagati. Steve drops to a knee and waves off the fight. It looks for all the world like he's teabagging Bonner in the process. I so wish I had a pic of it.

Had an epic 10-fight war against some random dude last night. We both remained the same fighters throughout; I was Rampage and he was Silva. Ended at 6/4, my lead as I GNP'd his face into oblivion the last two fights since the dumb bastard wouldn't stop using the same combination - leg kick, leg kick, head kick. So I'd take the two leg kicks and shoot for the single leg while he went for the kick, take down to half-past guard position, GNP. Awesome night.

If only my roommates would get the fuck off the TV so I can play.

get into mount and when he transitions you can choke him out.

christ i really want to play this :(

Knocked out Brock Lesnar in the second round to become the heavyweight champion. He took me down a couple times, but I somehow managed to get out of it both times, which was a shock to me (and I'm sure the audience as well). It was truly magical. Frank Mir is my first challenger, and I'm scared.

Was sort of half aware of this, thread got me hyped, DL'ing demo.

Yep prolly gonna have to buy this.

for the best success at hwt.... dodge mir, nog and lesnar like the plague

So I'm to the point I'm taking all comers (yes, Rashad too). 29 and 0, Dana just told me I'm going into the HoF. I've tapped Rampage, Machida and Evans, my last fight is in 8 weeks against Rampage.

how do you get into the HoF?

Not entirely sure, but I have a ton of fight of the night trophies, a bunch of knockout of the night trophies, my striking trophy, I'm the champ, and undefeated. So I think it's a combination of accolades and win steaks.

Plus probably cred plays into it also I'm guessing.

I think you have to complete level 3 of both of your techniques. Striking and Grappling.

Still haven't made anyone submit yet other than my sparring partner :$

FUCK YEAH
Rematch with koscheck and I knocked the fucker out. First round was very close, but I think I won it, as I stuffed 3 of his 4 takedown attempts, and quickly got out of the forth one, and was dropping bombs on him all round. Second, he started beating the shit out of me, and even had me rocked at one point, but I got out of it. The head kicks started to take their toll tho, and once I got back up to standing, I knocked him out.

Matt Hughes for the title was next, and I fully expected to lose. Almost did in the first round. He was at full mount and pounding the shit out of me, and rocked me. Just as I was about to get out of it, he caught me again, and rocked me. Then he went for the sub, and was about to tap me out, when the bell rang. Soooooooooo lucky there, as one second more, and I prolly would have tapped.

Second round was all me. Blocked all his takedowns, and was hitting him with punches and head kicks all over the place. Good thing huges' stand up sucks. Third round was the same, and I knocked him out.

I am now beginning the process of avoiding GSP for the rest of my career.

... that's what I just said. It's not easy to counter that though. Usually ends up rolling back into guard.
Not sure. I got it being 30-4 with 9 KO of the night trophies, 5 Fight of the night trophies, all of the win streak trophies and the title.
Nope. I didn't have level 3 on either of them.

QUICK Q GUYS. what do you have, PS3 or XBOX? i am gonna buy one on the back of this and gta4 so i would like to see which is the most popular so i can thrash you all at some later date.

PS3 version of this, although I have both systems.

360

Lads this game is pretty average. Once you get over how it looks, the fact it's a good attempt at a UFC game, it's not worth buying. It would work as a boxing game, but the ground game clearly isn't finished. They've got on a good idea, but it isn't ready. When you take someone down it is far too unresponsive and based too much on luck on hitting the R3 rotating. The clinch and the ground game should be a serious button bashing battle, but they're both a matter of pretty much luck, they're too static. Maybe it's impossible to do that properly in a game, but maybe you shouldn't make a UFC game then? You can just hammerfist or punch a guy repeatedly with no stoppage, because the ground game is so static. It's punch-punch-punch, attempt transition, maybe it comes off. Pretty poor. The clinch is pathetic, not even worth talking about. You should be able to clinch a guy against the side and spend an entire round trying to land 3-4 clean punches or knees.

Flash knock-outs are fucking awful (I say this in favour or against me, I always feel short-changed). They happen far too often, better would be if the timing of a punch had the "rocked" animation much more often, rather than straight knock-outs. Right, if a guy steps in to an uppercut and gets knocked out, fine, but when a jab randomly chins a guy to death it's just stupid.

Majorly disappointed in this game after the demo. It's a boxing game dressed up as UFC, regret buying it.

Oh yeah, major thing about this game: so sloooooow.

I completely agree ECG. I was about to post that I played the games for a few hours with a buddy of mine and I was really disappointed in it. I mean, it's a decent game, but nothing special. I think the ground game controls are intuitive but really lacking. Jujitsu overall is lacking tbh.

You guys are entitled to your opinion but i've finally gotten the hang of the ground game (two weeks and some change of work) and it's incredibly intuitive. One you learn the motions, and have the rotations of the analog stick committed to memory, as well as what transitions to what, what technical counters can transition to what, it's incredibly responsive and eep.

There is not luck to the ground game if you are good at it both offensively and defensively.

Get a 360. The majority of us have that system. Plus more games, plus backward compatibility with some XBox 1 games means Shenmue 2. Plus GTA4 has dextra downloadable content only available on the 360.
Flash KOs seem a little too random, I've seen guys survive seemingly endless combos of flush hits and other go down from a random jab. The ground game takes time. Once you learn it, It's actually pretty deep. The mothions are a little trcky at first, but it's not random luck. Good luck trying to submit someone like Machida or Rashad Evans. Someone like Lesnar will be all too quick to tap out though.

Basically.

Also, fighter attributes play a large part in flash KO's and ground game.

The only way I can see anyone having a gripe with the ground game or clinch is if they are not good at it and cant do anything when the fight goes there.

I agree about the flash KOs. I an a wizard on the ground in terms of transitions and ground and pound, but i cant for the life of me submot a guy and if i try to wear him down i end up knocking him out.

The only real gripe I have about the ground game right now is that I can't for the life of me escape the back mount. I try to do the minor/major transitions, but it's not doing anything. Any particular direction I'm supposed to be doing to get out or do I just do all the ones I can before I get screwed and get tapped out?

I've lost 4 matches and countless sparring sessions because I can't out :mad:

I guessed the first response would be "you aren't good at the ground game." It's the bit I've concentrated on the most, I appreciated the idea off using the right stick and the system in place, I just don't think it's finished. Maybe next year the game will be worth buying.

There are a few other stupid things in the game, like your career guy never changing his age. Would it not be sensible to start with quite high stamina/speed/cardio, maybe choosing one to be your main attribute, then concentrate mainly on building skills? Then as you get older, your physical attributes tail off and you have to rely on your skills i.e. change your game? There's very little depth to the career in this sense and all the sponsorship and Cred nonsense is just annoying, really.

My main concern with the ground game isn't the control response, it's the lack of depth.

Just got my arse handed to me by Tito Ortiz. :(

Totally outclassed me on the ground and kept taking me down, so I wasn't able to make it a stand up fight as I usually like it.

Well that's one of my gripes too, as I say. Punch-punch-punch transition, punch-punch-punch transition, block or reverse transition. Ground and pound until round finishes or knock-out occurrs. The beatings you can deal out on the ground is ludicrous because there is very little actual grappling.

Submissions aren't great either. Clicking a button and then only getting it if your opponent is pathetic at submission defence and beat to shit doesn't really cover it. That should be a truly button-bashing moment, submissions can also happen any time in a match, not only knock-outs.

The lack of long hair is shit too, I wanted to put together a Steve Seagal character.

Long hair caused them clipping problems.

My career is heading down the toilet, any time I take on a fighter in the top 10 of the rankings, I get absolutely killed. :( Gone from 7-1-0 to 8-4-0.

Oh ffs I'm never trying to save money again, normally I laugh at people who are tiught cunts and go shopping around to save a fiver or something. THen I go and order this off some shit cunt internet cunts instead of buying it in the shop so I coudl get it cheaper. And is it here today as I start a bank holiday weekend? No, no it is not.

And I've just read what ECG said about it and now aniticipate not even liking it all that much since I've not even got the being a UFC fan to fall back on.

Mask get a 360 though so I can beat you in this whilst abusing you verbally.

i have sort of solid 7-9/10 hopes for this game. i think the real gem will be getting to knock your mates out, or baird. no doubt he'll try and ground and pound me though, the big gay scotsman.

I look forward to playing Baird, I see him online often but I've never had a game hes had I don't think.

Hahaha just knocked some jobber out in seven seconds. Left head kick, followed by a right head kick and the lights went out.

Picked this up yesterday and just started my career, 4-0 so far. Really enjoying it as well.
Need to try and get to jist more with the ground game, had fun on one round just moving into different transitions.
From what I've read though, once you learn the game properly it can be a really complex fighting game.

so i went and bought a 360 and this game WOO. got the game second hand cause all the brand new ones were sold out, so woo again cause i saved money. i won the heavyweight title today and i've defended it well so far. i've not really struggled particularly with anyone, although a few times i stepped up too early or took fights at short notice i shouldn't have.

my gripes mainly are the amount of menus and loading you have to go through to do something as pointless as putting sponsers on your shorts, and the training camp tasks lark. tried about a billion times to do a jab/uppercut combo and succeeded plenty yet it never seems to flash up. another annoying thing is how my dickhead sparring partner never tries to take it to the ground where i could learn something.

anyway, hot tip for you all, you can bang the same sponsors logo all over your shorts and you'll get cred for every one. so if you just plaster thq logos all over your shorts early on you'll get 350 cred every fight.

also it is annoying how bad muay thai sucks early on considering you have to do the dickhead training camp to improve and get new moves that can actually do some damage.

son of a bitch. retirement match and i was on a 13 match run or something and fucking brock lesnar KO'd me cause i was trying to get a submission :'( fucks sake.

AND YOU DIDNT TURN THE 360 OFF?

That would be gay

Grrr, I totally dominated Rashad Evans in my first shot at the Light Heavyweight Title, and he blasted me out of nowhere for a cheap KO. Git.

God my lightweight career has gone to shit, was 13-0-0 and then lost four on the trot due to shitty submission and cheap ko's, making me drop real far down the rankings with only two years left to go after the title :mad:

Beginners should go to middleweight IMO. Just stay away from Silvas clinch and you should have no worries :D