Customer Reviews

UFC: Sudden Impact

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

At best, UFC throwdown (the 1st PS2 UFC game) was a 2 Star because it was a duplicate (perhaps worse replication) of the original UFC for Dreamcast. This version however is a vast improvement in my opinion. It still isnt as good as it could potentially be. Being a huge MMA fan I'm glad they are still making these games though it's a lot funner than any other kind of fighting simulation out there and a whole lot more realistic.

The New features that are an improvement over UFC throwdown:

Actual damage will appear on the fighters where they are being attacked (cuts and bruising on the face and body)

New positions in the game are side mount, Standing grapple up against the cage, and a new brutal looking position, it is a mount with the opponent crunched into the cage sitting up akwardly. There are also some updated fighting techniques for all of the fighters that they more commonly use in the ring presently.

There is better music when fighters are comming to the ring although their enterance body movements are very robotic and in their basic standing mobility i believe the game series took a backwards step.

There are new fighting modes such as Story mode where you create a fighter and go through a career of fighting.

Another fighting mode is called CHAMPION ROAD, THIS mode was definitly an improvement on the series I won the championship belt with Matt Hughs in his weight division and then i was able to take on challengers for my belt in another series of matches called LEGEND MODE. This is definitly fun, I will have a lot of fun winning the belt with all of my favorite UFC fighters. On a side note you actually get to carry your belt into the ring with you on your enterance when you are a defending champion, I liked that.

Ken Shamrock is in the game and so is Dan Severn, have your favorite old school warriors go at it one more time!

The game is definitly worth the $20.00. You can't beat the value you get from this game and the replay ability it has to offer for that price. If you were thinking about getting this game JUST GET IT!!! You cant be dissapointed with the price it's at.

If you enjoy watching UFC, this game is definitely a good buy! The game play is not easy to handle at first. Even in the easiest mode, you will get beaten pretty bad if you are not used to the moves, timing, and execution. Overall, it is a really fun fighting game using UCF warriors. It is like having your own UFC and you control your favorite fighters.

There are a lot of moves for each fighter. Depending on which position your player is at (top mount, bottom mount, standing close...you got the point), different moves will be executed accordingly. And the fight is just like in UFC where you could fight on the feet or ground battle (even at the fence). The computer fighters execute beautiful moves sometime so you would wonder how the heck you could do that move!

There are couple weight classes that you could choose the fighters or you could enter the "story" mode to build you own and pick your favorite discipline. If you train your own fighter, it would take 3 years. At the beginning of each year, you have a choice to pick the discipline again. During the training months, you could either choose to train physical strength (endurance, stamina, punch, kick, grappling, etc..) or learn new move of this chosen discipline. After three years, you could use your own fighter to enter other mode to fight with the computer. I have trained and created many fighters but so far I have the most success with the one from the Submission Fighting discipline. Since most computer fighters are mixed martial art, they will strike and eventually take you to the ground. The grapplers will take you to the ground almost immediately in the beginning of the battle. Fighting on the ground is quite hard if you're not used to. They will choke or break you pretty quick and pretty bad!!!

The reason I gave this game four stars instead of five was because of the graphic which is not that great. The computerized characters look about 20% alike the actual fighters. If the computer does not show the introduction, you would have no clue whom you are fighting with! I don't really care about the music or the plot for this game. After all, this is UFC fighting game for Christ-sake. All I want is many fighters to pick, good selection of moves to learn and execute, and great graphic. The only turn off is the not-so-good graphic as mentioned above. Also, it would be nice if the game could keep track of your own fighter's fighting record. I guess next game may be.

For only $20, buy the game and enjoy if you're true UFC fan!!!!

I have played every UFC game out there and this by far,is the BEST!!! More fighters to choose from, better story mode, real time facial damage, and a deeper create a fighter. You now can tackle your oponent from across the ring, beat him up on the cage fence, and sometimes the referee will pull you off your oponent when he's had enough! My only complaints are: needs better graphics, more outfits per fighter (almost all of them are wearing black), blood that will stay on the mat the entire fight, and the create a fighter and moves per fighter should be as deep as Smackdown! HCTP. Fix these minor things and we will have the perfect UFC game. For now, 4/5 Buy Now, very CHEAP!

I know that it would be really hard to make a UFC game that stands up to what the sport can provide but this game is no where near what it should be. If nothing else at least use all the buttons on the controller! There are four buttons that don't do anything, in a UFC based game every button and every button combination should do something. There is no stamina system to it at all. Opponents are just as easy or as har to knock out in the first round as they are in the third. If you or your opeeonent lands a submission it's tapout city immediatly with no chance of fighting out of it. Each fighter has two kicks two punches and one to three combos that they can throw over and over and over in a monotonous street fighter without special moves way. Most of my matches end in the first round. I know it a small thing but it bothers me that at the end of a match Bruce Buffer doesn't say "and the winner in the first round by TKO" he just says for the winner and the name. It lacks so much. The graphics are decent and there are a lot of fighters to choose in a weird there's only three fighting styles way. The story mode is horrible you do something for three seconds, loading screen, three seconds, loading screen. It looks like they were going to put in some minni games but got lazy and instead just have a little text that says fighting or running or training and then an obligatory you win or lose. I can't believe UFC would put it's name on it.

When I got the UFC game I did not know what to expect. When it actually came to my house I found that the game play was amazing the only problem I have with it is that the story line is kinda lame you can only go through training for 3 years and after that you cant max out your character. Other than that I find this game to be awesome.

This game is a lot of fun, for the time period that it came out. It is very limited on what you can do as far as career mode.

I have only played it a few times, but my husband seems to like it. He does mixed martial arts, and said the game seemed to mimic real-life martial arts quite well.

If you like Pride FC you might also enjoy this game. The good news is that the button scheme is basically the same in both games. The controls are a bit slower and less responsive then Pride, but they are certainly playable.

The facial damage feature is a great addition, but the damage sometimes looks like clay figure wounds (not real wounds).

There is alot of fighters, but alot of them are fighters that most people dont care about. Pride FC had a fantastic fighter line up. This one is larger, but less charasmatic.

The game modes add more replayability then pride. You need to win a very difficult championship mode to unlock hidden fighters and there is also a create your own fighter mode. The create a fighter system is pretty crappy.

if you like MMA, give this a try.

This is best UFC game on the market, but I think that there is a lot of room for improvement. I didn't expect this game to be amazing, but I think after a couple more releases a great one will come on the horizen.

I just bought ufc sudden impact and it rocks but I wish people would stop comparing it to pride fc I think ufc has an edge because it has more modes then pride fc and well I think pride fc is fun but ufc is the baddest fighter ever