Ultimate Fighting Championship
2000
- fighting
- sport
- action
The story
The Ultimate Fighting Championship tournaments started in the 1990s, giving martial artists of the world a chance to distinguish themselves in a fighting environment with very few rules. Fighters could be matched up against fighters of any style, and the match ended only when one fighter submitted. The popularity of the sport resulted in the creation of other mixed martial arts tournaments and the evolution and merging of fighting styles for greater effectiveness. Ultimate Fighting Championship is a 3D fighting game that tries to simulate the experience of a real mixed martial arts fight. Players can choose from a selection of established UFC fighters, or create their own fighter through the Career Mode. While in Career Mode, players start the character creation process by selecting from several style templates, then using points earned through fighting and beating a series of progressively more difficult fighters to buy attribute upgrades in stamina, endurance, punching ability, kicking ability, or to learn certain techniques.
What it’s like
Chunky low-poly fighters trade blows inside a flat-lit cage under stadium-style lighting, with the crude, slightly uncanny faces of early PlayStation likenesses and the hard, bright look of a late-nineties disc. Its sound is the crowd's murmur, the thud of grapples hitting the mat, and the sharp grunts and impacts of a close bout, with little or no music pressing on the action. The vibe is scrappy, earnest and sweaty: a fast, physical weekend-with-friends game, best played split-screen on a couch when someone wants a rematch. The pace is quick and combative, moving between striking exchanges and clinches, with a slow-building ladder in Career Mode where each win buys a little more stamina, power or technique. The emotional register is competitive and proud rather than dark, and the arcs follow a rough fighter steadily getting better. Violence is the point but is stylised and cartoonish, with bruising knockdowns and submissions rather than graphic detail. It suits anyone who loves old-school sports fighters and enjoys building a bruiser from nothing.
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