Character models are astonishingly accurate as every punch, kick, takedown, grapple, clinch and submission hold look exactly as they do in the real life TV coverage, while every character and fighter actually has realistic expression and movement in their eyes which is particularly on show during big fight ring entrances. Furthermore the realism is to a point that too many leg kicks inflicted in a certain area of the leg will result in the fighter limping, bruising, not being able to kick with that leg and potentially having the fight stopped due to lack of movement, while facial expressions show signs of pain after taking a heavy punch or kick to any area of the face, body or legs and in reaction to blood obscuring their vision.
The presentation of the game is solid with a great user interface across various menus such as the main menu, fight modes menus, career mode menus, create fighter menus, UFC Ultimate Team menus, tutorials menus, tournament mode menus, online multiplayer menus, skill challenges menus, various gameplay menus and more besides with support for navigation via the left analogue stick, directional pad and face buttons, although it does not include support for navigation via the touch pad and right analogue stick.
Every menu is extended outwards and brought to the forefront when highlighted on the main menu, while the loading screens provide helpful tips and reminders of certain gameplay mechanics and individual control elements. Pre-fight announcing by Bruce Buffer followed by an official rules introduction from referee Herb Dean, Dan Miragliotta, Yves Lavigne and Mario Yamasaki, while TV broadcast quality commentary from Jon Anik and Joe Rogan tells the tale of the tape and calls all the action, alongside trainers shouting instructions to their fighter during the fight.
The soundtrack for some reason is almost entirely hip-hop and rap instead of evenly catering for multiple genres; as someone who prefers more melodic rock music, I promptly turned the dial to 0 and if you are not into the majority of hip-hop or rap music, then you will do the same. The trophy list includes 33 trophies with 16 bronze trophies, 12 silver trophies, 4 gold trophies and 1 platinum trophy. Easier trophies include the UFC 1: The Beginning bronze trophy for completing the fantasy event tutorial and the UFC 3: The American Dream bronze trophy for signing a rookie contract during your career.
There are some online multiplayer trophies that should be able to be attained within any offline mode as they are more relevant to fighting skills including the UFC Rapid Fire bronze trophy for landing a four-hit combination; the UFC Throwdown bronze trophy for finishing the fight with a submission; the UFC Declaration silver trophy for triggering a health event on the opponent within 10 seconds of your taunt; the UFC Supernatural silver trophy for swaying to avoid 6 strikes in 20 seconds; and the UFC The Comeback gold trophy for surviving at least two health events before winning the fight, although there are further online multiplayer trophies too.
It is estimated that depending upon skill and a good trophy guide to provide some helpful tips that it would take between 50 to hours to platinum the trophy list. There are five difficulty levels including easy, normal, hard, pro and legendary with the major differences between each difficulty your A. Legendary difficulty is an unlockable in career mode after becoming the greatest of all time during career mode on any difficulty level resulting in the fighter HUD being disabled and no longer having the ability to restart fights.
Elsewhere, every skill challenge has three difficulty levels including normal, hard and pro in which the player has to increase the quality of their performance such as blocking more shots or striking the sparring partner on more occasions to accumulate a lower or higher points quantity depending on defence or offence related skill challenges.
Local multiplayer supports 2 players with superb graphical fidelity and performance. In a rather refreshing change of pace for EA Sports and EA in general; every single player mode is fully playable in local multiplayer including fight now, custom fight now, knockout mode, stand and bang, submission showdown, tournament mode and custom events.
Online multiplayer supports 2 players with a similar quality of performance to that of single player or local multiplayer in which you will undoubtedly have no problem finding a match to participate in for as long as the online servers are functional as there are usually thousands of players online simultaneously in UFC 3. Ranked championships provide the opportunity for players to choose their favourite UFC fighters to compete in matches against other players to gradually improve your rating and progress onto higher divisions.
Entering fight now within ranked championships allows the chance to select your preferred weight class to start matchmaking, while you can alternatively choose one of five daily featured fighters. Players complete 10 placement fights to determine their player rating as winning fights increases player rating and progression towards higher divisions.
The major emphasis of ranked championships is for players to win 3 consecutive fight now matches to attain contender status before winning the big title fight to become a champion followed by a continued focus on defending your championship belt with a winning streak. Live events offer a somewhat different element of participation in what is essentially a more technical variant of fantasy football; as players predict the results of fights on an upcoming real-world UFC fight card to earn rewards for Ultimate Team mode.
Ultimate Team rewards involve points earning a basic pack, while 2, points produces a premium pack and 3, points results in an event pack. Online quick fight allows players to search for 3 or 5 round matches within any of the 10 weight divisions in which you can choose a fighter or have the optional possibility of being able to utilise or compete against a created fighter, while players can invite friends to their own online lobby.
Fighternet provides a full overview of your performances and accolades in ranked championships and Ultimate Team throughout all 10 weight divisions in the form of KOs, TKOs and submission wins and losses, quickest wins and losses, alongside such statistics as the amount of titles won, longest defence, current defence, total attempted strikes and takedowns and more besides.
Elsewhere, there is a huge male and female fighter roster across all 10 weight divisions, the ability to create your own fighter, 11 real-world arenas to fight at and a career mode that captures what it is to be starting out as an MMA fighter looking to rise through the ranks.
There really is a huge amount of replay value throughout every mode and gameplay mechanic that will have players returning for dozens of hours worth of action in the octagon as their favourite fighter or a created fighter. About The Author. Jason Jason plays all genres of games and enjoys all different kinds of experiences that the games industry has to offer. Jason is happy to see gaming coming full circle with updates for retro classics such as Alien Breed, Superfrog and Crash Bandicoot.
Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. You are going to send email to. A video editing mode new to the UFC Undisputed series. UFC Undisputed 3 will save your 50 most recent rounds of fighting and give the user the ability to edit them together to create their own unique Highlight Reel. Also added is the "Smart Highlight Reel", which uses an algorithm to automatically make a highlight reel. For the first time in the Undisputed series, players will be able to see their favorite fighters walk out to the Octagon.
The entrances are not only a show of presentation, but are treated as a way to inform users about fighter's strengths through commentators Joe Rogan and Mike Goldberg.
First round is 10 minutes and the following two rounds are 5 minutes. Knee to a downed opponent, soccer kicks and stomps are completely legal. The mode is rounded out by the authentic presentation using ring announcer Lenne Hardt and holding the bouts at the Saitama Super Arena.
As soon as your opponent hits the floor from a KO, players are able to jolt to the downed opponent and start swinging away to assure their win adding the much needed physical exclamation point to all KOs. Instead of performing quarter-circles for Minor Transitions and half-circles for Major Transitions on the Right Analog stick to advance positions, players using Amateur Controls can now just flick up or down on the Right Analog stick to advance in position.
However, using this control scheme will take out some techniques like the ability to fake your transitions.
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