Four years. It's been four years since we've bought a fighting game. That's a pretty long time. The last one we got was Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. And that was basically a flop. So we have been patiently awaiting for a better fighting game ever since.
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Well, four years later we finally found one that caught our attention. UFC Undisputed 2010.
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We have been a fan of the UFC tournament for while. We demoed the first UFC game a while back but didn't get it. But now since there's a sequel out we became more interested. We downloaded the demo and enjoyed it. We liked the realism and more challenging aspects of it like the stamina bar, and the ability to be knocked out, better than the life bar, and not being able to be knocked out in the Mortal Kombat games. And since the newest MK game is set to be released later this year. And since we just don't trust Ed boon and the MK team much to put out a good game. We went ahead and bought this game. And here's what we think...
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The Gameplay -
Fun and solid. The fights can get pretty intense and leave you yelling: "Yes!" when you land that devastating knockout to your opponent. Or cussing at your opponent when you lose. But on average the gameplay is just normal. There are a few glitches though that can be upsetting, especially when you would have won if it wouldn't have happened. But these don't happen too often.
The controls are kind of complicated but you get used to them, and the moves become quite easy to pull off most of the time.
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The Graphics -
Not bad but not really good. Decent. The sweat on the fatigued fighters is nice. But sometimes on close-ups of the fighter's faces, (like when showing their stats before the fight) they can look hilariously unrealistic. Also there's just something about the shape of the fighter's body that's... well... off. I think their arms are too short.
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The Sound -
What you would expect. Pretty good. The smack of the fighters hitting, or kicking each-other is alright. And the menu music is better than most games.
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Character Selection -
Large. Every weight class and all the popular ones from each. Plus some not so popular ones, which we like. Yet Brock Lesnar, (the oaf on the cover) is ridiculously too fast. And a few other fighters, like Forest Griffin, and Rashad Evans are way too much better than they are in real life. But the rest are pretty well balanced and fun to play as, or verse.
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Online play -
Actually bad. Most of the time, when you can find a decent session, it's horribly laggy. And we found that when we do find an alright one, it seems that all the other players do is tackle, tackle, and tackle! Which we hate. Leaving us exhausted of take down defence and ends up by us just quitting. There are a few ways in which you can supposedly get better online play. But they are unnecessarily complicated and we haven't done them yet. And I really have no idea why we have to in the first place.
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Offline Play -
Excellent. Two player gameplay is very fun. Create a fighter is in depth and well done. The game modes are cool and there is a good amount of them. But we haven't played career mode yet because you have to create new fighter from scratch do so. You can't use a fighter you've created previously using "create a Fighter" from the main menu. Why they did this I have no idea. A terrible decision.
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Final Comments -
If you want a good fighting game get this. It's fun when you want to play it.
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Ruling -
The Good/ Offline play. - Character selection. - Create a fighter!
The Bad/ Online play. - Glitches - Brock Lesnar
Our Score - 8.0 out of 10
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- Stefan
