EA Sports MMA: Five Minutes of Gameplay Footage From E3 2010

Who’s screaming “There’s a new champion!” like a prepubescent boy? Just awful.

I saw some things I liked early on, but it suffers from some of the same herky-jerky “rejected transition” animations that the UFC games do. Plus, what the fuck is with Randy coming off of Fedor’s back with such ease three times? Dominant positions seemed meaningless. General animations look more smooth than in UFC (more natural), but the punching was pretty awful— like they were fighting underwater. They were striking like gassed out fighters in Undisputed.

Something just seems really weird. Specifically the way they float around the ring with lightning speed and then, like Blackout said, punch like gassed fighters in Undisputed.

I was actually leaning more toward buying this game before I saw the gameplay footage over the past couple of days.

graphics looks really good, gameplay looks suspect

Because without it it seems like a pretty good game. Although there is room for improvement

Has anyone else noticed the lack of a ref during gameplay? They only show up in the pre-fight and post-fight cut-scenes. I hope they fix that come release day.

Not gonna buy this unless i see some major improvements by the time the game comes out. The footwork and the way they move look terrible.
       
Plus its the worst commentary team of all time. We need to start a petition for a complete overhaul of the Strikeforce commentary team!

Tells me they did an excellent job with the commentary.

It was all good ’til Mauro started screaming.

…They got some fixing to do.

Game looks good but not great.

Not perfect, but interesting. I’m looking forward to getting my hands on it. Undisputed 2010 was a disappointment. Not a bad game, just not the step forward I was hoping for the franchise. I’d really like an alternative that does different things well. Obviously any game (especially a first year game of a sports franchise) will have it’s flaws, it’s just if the flaws decrease the overall playability.

If anything, the stand up doesn’t seem worst than undisputed. You want to see robots fight just stand and trade in undisputed. But it all comes down to gameplay mechanics anyway. If every fights end up in the first, or if subs are too easy or too hard, I’ll pass on this one too.

We need an MMA game comparable to Madden in terms of sports simulation.

Those curves are turrible. I don’t sweat the foot skate since they’ve got enough on their plate without implementing a parametric step planner or something, but the striking curves (the animating equivalent of kinetic-linking over time) are killing me. absolutely unpleasant and thoroughly unsatisfying.

The anims look like they might actually be awesome in the keyframe posing sense, but they look like gassed bad actors because of the timing.

This is something they definitely can polish-up by October, so I’m not gonna give up hope yet. I hope EA’s reading the feedback from the online communities that follow the sport closely.

Some some very promising features— including an interesting see-through appendage effect that showed the bones of an arm going white to red, reflecting the risk of an arm bar, before becoming deeply red and snapping. That looked pretty rad.

I cant wait to get this! I have no idea why people are saying it looks like an arcade fighting game. It looks legit IMO. EA!

Watch This UFC 2010 footage here.

Then come watch EA MMA again. Fighters in Undiputed 2010 move clunky and robotic compared to EA MMA. The textures and lighting arent even close. EA blows it away. Give this game some credit. Just because its not UFC doesnt mean its crap. Im sure this game will hit at least a Mill. EA will be satisfied with it and move forward.

We should all just be happy that another large company is making and promoting something MMA related and that can only mean good things for the fans and if it’s a good game double win.

it’s like high school here,,,, are you guys serious?

….the striking sound effects. I really hate when devs think they need to use Hollywood style sound effects for punching and kicking.

The sound of those little 4 ouncers is music to my ears. Really adds a nice level of realism. Definitely one thing missing from Undisputed.

Hm…compared to Undisputed 2010, the ground game looks excellent and the striking looks disappointing.

In EA, the ground transitions look more fluid and I like the non-button mashing (or stick rotating) nature of submissions, not to mention the different mechanics for joint locks and chokes. I also really like that fighters move constantly while on the ground, makes it look a lot more realistic.

On the other hand, the striking just looks plain awful. Skating footwork, herky-jerky animations with inconsistent speed, and I’m not seeing the touted defensive game supposedly imported from Fight Night.

For me, I think the career mode will be the deciding factor. EA’s already got the edge in my book via including the Vale Tudo ruleset.

This looks so much better than Undisputed in practically ever phase of the game. Wouldn’t be surprised if Zuffa terminates their license with THQ the second they get the chance.