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

[aholbert32]

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]

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

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]

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

[Phobia]

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

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.

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

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]

Quote: Originally Posted by Mossfan8480

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.