ufc 1 ps4 review download EA Sports UFC 3 Review (PS4) You’ll need a strong stomach, but EA Sports UFC 3 simply feels good. Dana White’s snowballing brand of mixed martial arts is not known for pulling its punches, and the third instalment in EA Sports’ series hits similarly hard, with wince-inducing haymakers breaking noses like they’re breadsticks. Industry leading audiovisual presentation leads to some of the most impressive fighting you’ll find on the PlayStation 4, but repetition and an awkward ground game take the sheen off a touch. Make no mistake, though, this is an outstandingly produced package. The title opens with a hype-inducing vignette on Octagon ultrastar Conor McGregor, outlining his rise through the ranks from outspoken Irish amateur through to high-powered southpaw stardom. He’s the perfect choice of poster boy because his out-of-the-ring exploits perfectly mimic the game’s Career mode, which see you building a fanbase and mastering your trade. It’s a satisfying campaign, albeit one that wears out its welcome quite quickly. Prior to each fight you’ll need to manage your fitness, using your time effectively to spar at gyms in order to learn new moves and raise your attributes. You’ll also need to successfully promote your next battle in order to increase your following, but buying into your own hype can lead to a catastrophic fall should you take a pounding in the ring. The problem is that within the span of ten or so fights you’ll have seen pretty much everything that the Career has to offer, and from there it’s just a case of repeating the same tasks over and over until you reach your desired status as the Greatest of all Time. The title will mix things up occasionally by giving you a short recovery cycle prior to your next fight due to an injury or the like, but it still follows the same pattern and starts to feel like busywork far too quickly. Fortunately, the fighting itself is superb. A lot of this is down to the outrageous animations, which really sell the connection of every punch and kick. Landing an upper-cut to the chin and watching the sweat and tears of your opponent paint the mat as their neck snaps back feels so satisfying, and you can physically feel through the controller when your adversary is on the ropes. As you’d expect of a sports game, stamina management plays a large part in your success. It’s the ground game that lets the moment-to-moment brawling down. This is largely unchanged from the previous version, and sees you using the right-stick to gain positional advantage and complete disconnected minigames that lead to submissions. It’s an area of the title you’ll actively want to avoid, partly because the striking is so strong, but also because it’s unsatisfying and cumbersome in its own right. Similar complaints can be levelled at Ultimate Team, which is obligatory for an EA Sports release but still feels somewhat shoehorned. You essentially collect cards to assemble a team of UFC fighters across four different disciplines, with contract stickers temporarily boosting your earnings and move tokens adding to your roster of abilities. It’s a fine attempt but the formula just doesn’t work as well as it does in a FIFA, and the fact that you can watch commercials to earn coins rubs us the wrong way. The online play is good, though, whether you’re taking your Ultimate Team online or simply playing with the title’s large cast of professional fighters. The microtransaction aspect does unbalance the former slightly, but the standard matchmaking options employ a divisional system to ensure that you’re always up against players of a similar standing. Elsewhere, you can place wagers on real-world UFC fights in order to win in- game currency to spend on your Ultimate Team. Full UFC 4 roster – Every fighter in the game. UFC 4 will launch worldwide on August 14, and you may be wondering which fighters will be included in the game. Gamepur has you covered, as we go over which fighters will be in the latest installment of the UFC franchise. EA announced on July 11 that the cover of UFC 4 will feature two of the organization’s top fighters, Jorge Masvidal and current UFC Middleweight Champion Isreal Adesanya. Masvidal and Adesanya were the first two fighters to be confirmed for the game, but others were confirmed shortly after that. Conor McGregor, Khabib Nurmagomedov, Amanda Nunes, and Daniel Cormier were also confirmed to be in the game, as were boxers Anthony Joshua and Tyson Fury, as pre-order bonus fighters. Now thanks to a video released by an EA Game Changer, we now know the full roster for UFC 4 . Let’s over the full list of fighters that will be in the new title. UFC Men’s Division Fighters. Heavyweights. Andrei Arlovski Curtis Blaydes Mark Coleman (Legend) Daniel Cormier Junior dos Santos Todd Duffee Tyson Fury (Pre-Order) Walt Harris Anthony Johnson Anthony Joshua (Pre-Order) Ilir Latifi Brock Lesnar (Legend) Derrick Lewis Stipe Miocic Francis Ngannou Minotauro Nogueria (Legend) Aleksei Oleinik Alistair Overeem Ben Rothwell Jairzinho Rozenstruik Dan Severn (Legend) Kimbo Slice (Legend) Stefan Struve Tai Tuivasa Cain Velasquez (Legend) Alexander Volkov Fabricio Werdum Dana White (Special Character) Light Heavyweights. Dan Alvey Corey Anderson Vitor Belfort (Legend) Misha Cirkunov Jared Cannonier Jan Blachowicz Rashad Evans (Legend) Forrest Griffin (Legend) Alexander Gustafsson Dan Henderson Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson (Legend) Anthony Johnson Jon Jones Nikita Krylov Lyoto Machida (Legend) Chuck Liddell (Legend) Jimi Manuwa Volkan Oezdemir Luke Rockhold Dominick Reyes Tito Ortiz (Legend) Shogun Rua Ovince Saint Preux Gokhan Saki Wanderlei Silva (Legend) Anderson Silva Thiago Santos Anthony Smith Jacare Souza Glover Teixiera Chris Weidman Johnny Walker Gian Villante. Midweights. Isreal Adesanya Michael Bisping (Legend) Tom Breese Derek Brunson Bruce Buffer (Special Character) Paulo Costa Nick Diaz Kelvin Gastelum Royce Gracie (Legend) Urian Hall Jack Hermansson Kryysztof Jotko Robbie Lawler Yoel Romero Edmen Shahbazyan Chael Sonnen (Legend) Brad Tavares Georges St. Pierre (Legend) Jacare Souza Darren Till Robert Whittaker. Welterweights. Omari Akhmedov Ben Askren Matt Brown Gilbert Burns Donald Cerrone Michael Chiesa Khamzat Chimaev Carlos Condit Colby Covington Nate Diaz Rafeal dos Anjos Leon Edwards Paul Felder Tony Ferguson Mickey Gall Johnny Hendricks (Legend) Matt Hughes Alan Jouban Bruce Lee (DLC) Kevin Lee Neil Magny Demian Maia Jorge Masvidal Tim Means Conor McGregor Jake Matthews Yancy Meideiros Gunnar Nelson Alex Oliveira Anthony Pettis Mike Perry B.J. Penn (Legend) Santiago Ponzinibbio CM Punk Diego Sanchez Erick Silva Stephen Thompson Kamaru Usman James Vick Tyron Woodley. Lightweights. Eddie Alvarez (Legend) Edson Barboza Michael Chandler Beneil Dariush Marc Diakiese Joe Duffy Evan Dunham Frankie Edgar Josh Emmett Justin Gaethje Bobby Green Clay Guida Alexander Hernandez Max Holloway Daniel Hooker Al Iaquinta Michael Johnson Rustam Khabilov Joe Lauzon Nik Lentz Jim Miller Khabib Nurmagomedov Renato Moicano Charles Oliveria Dustin Poirier Diego Sanchez Leonardo Santos Jeremy Stephens. Featherweights. Jose Aldo Arnold Allen Makwan Amirkhani Rapheal Assuncao Mirsad Bektic Alex Caceres Dooho Choi Darren Elkins Urijah Faber Chan Sung Jung Calvin Kattar Ricardo Lamas Zabit Magomedsharipov Brian Ortega Yair Rodriguez Charles Rosa Cub Swanson Alexander Volkanovski. Bantamweights. Iuri Alcantara Thomas Almeida Renan Barao (Legend) Ray Borg Henry Cejudo Dominick Cruz T.J. Dillashaw John Dodson Johnny Eduardo Tim Elliott Cody Garbrandt John Lineker Marlon Moraes Sean O’Malley Pedro Munhoz Jimmie Rivera Frankie Saenz Cory Sandhagen Louis Smolka Aljamain Sterling Eddie Wineland Song Yadong Petr Yan. Flyweights. Askar Askarov Joseph Benavidez Deiveson Figueiredo Jussier Formiga Demetrious Johnson (Legend) Brandon Moreno Alexandre Pantoja Alex Perez. UFC Women’s Division Fighters. Bantamweights. Megan Anderson Bethe Correia Cris Cyborg (Legend) Alexis Davis Germaine de Randamie Ashlee Evans-Smith Jessica Eye Holly Holm Aspen Ladd Sara McMann Lauren Murphy Amanda Nunes Raquel Pennington Julianna Pena Marion Reneau Ronda Rousey (Legend) Flyweights. Joanne Calderwood Cynthia Calvillo Katlyn Chookagian Alexa Grasso Joanna Jedrzejczyk Jennifer Maia Maryna Moroz Valentina Shevchenko Paige vanZant. Strawweights. Jessica Andrade Mackenzie Dern Carla Esparza Claudia Gadelha Felice Herrig Angela Hill Karolina Kowalkiewicz Randa Markos Rose Namajunas Jessica Penne Tatiana Suarez Tecia Torres Michelle Waterson Weili Zhang. Note: Some fighters on the roster are eligible to fight in multiple divisions. In order to avoid repetitiveness, we put each fighter in the highest division he or she is eligible for. This does not apply to title holders. This list will be updated in the future should any additional UFC fighters be added to UFC 4 . EA Sports UFC 4 PS4 Review. EA Sports UFC 4 PS4 Review – For casual onlookers of Mixed Martial Arts (MMA), it can be difficult to separate the brutal spectacle from the onion layered complexities and sophistications which underpin modern mixed discipline hand-to-hand combat. In spite of the at-a-glance optics that Dana White’s small army of tattooed, 3% body fat fistic killers might conjure, MMA is at its most fundamental a chess game of towering guile and intelligence played with blood, sweat, fists, elbows, knees, feet, arms and legs. So it is then that EA’s fourth attempt at capturing the strategy, grit and crowd-pleasing ferocity of MMA proves to be its most successful yet; neatly shedding its skin of what didn’t work before all the while embracing an evolved feature set that cements its position as the best MMA videogame on the market. EA Sports UFC 4 PS4 Review. An Essential Fighter That Stands As The Best MMA Videogame Money Can Buy. From the get go, big changes are apparent. Immediately tasking the player with fashioning their own fighter, UFC 4 isn’t prepping the wallets of weary gamers for the sort of pounding that the microtransaction heavy Ultimate Team mode inflicted in the previous game, but rather the creation of a persistent customised fighter where everything you do, both online and off, provides experience points and coins that can be traded in for flashier cosmetics, emotes and more in UFC 4’s fighter hub. While the option does exist to purchase experience points, such a option merely exists for the impatient as UFC 4 provides a multitude of easily completed daily challenges to earn experience points hand over fist. Most importantly though, no longer is your wallet the measuring stick for your competency in the octagon – and I couldn’t be happier to see the high grind, low reward shenanigans of Ultimate Team be given the boot for this year’s game. UFC 4’s ground game is simultaneously deeper than ever before and much, much easier for players new and old alike to grasp. While we’re talking about key changes to the very fabric of the EA Sports UFC series, EA has wrought another – the submission system has been entirely overhauled in ways that bring a tear to my eye. No longer a maddeningly imprecise mini-game requiring you to have four thumbs, submissions in UFC 4 are now much simpler to both attack with and defend against. Deep Enough For Pros And Welcoming Enough For Complete Newbies, UFC 4 Is The Most Accessible The Series Has Ever Been. Now, all players need to do is move their circle over that of their opponent to tighten a hold, or simply shift it away in order to try and escape. Much simpler to understand and effortless to execute practice, UFC 4’s submission system is further augmented by other excellently conceived mechanics too. Players who are defending a submission hold now can elect to punch their foe whilst fighting the hold in order to relieve the pressure, or in some select holds, do what Rampage Jackson did to Ricardo Arona in PRIDE – and simply just slam them out of their mind to break the hold (and maybe their skull in the process). Beyond the gratefully reworked submission system, EA’s commitment to making the ground game as a whole much more approachable and easy to learn is also on clear display in UFC 4. In this year’s game players now have the option to toggle HUD grappling assists which not only help with understanding how and when to block the grappling transitions of your opponent, but also support fresh-faced players make the correct tactical choice on the ground without being blinded by BJJ and wrestling jargon. The way that EA have achieved this is that rather than listing the technical names of each position on the ground that you might transition to such as half guard, full guard and so on, only three different choices appear on your HUD now – getup, submission and ground and pound. What this means is that whether you’re on top a foe or underneath them, you’ve always got a clear goal that you can push towards and for newbies who might have been easily intimidated by the ground game of previous EA Sports UFC games, this is an absolute godsend that makes UFC 4 that much more accessible as a result. Speaking of accessibility, this is very much something that can be glimpsed in other aspects of UFC 4’s digital representation of fisticuffs too. Much like the submission system, clinches and takedowns are both now much easier to both pull off and defend against. Underscored by a new momentum system that allows you to drive forward on a takedown to either complete it, or push a foe up to the fence, or which also allows you to break a clinch by simply retreating your way out of it, UFC 4 doesn’t just feel easier to play than ever before, but it absolutely nails the look and feel of the world’s most sophisticated combat sport too. The striking game has perhaps seen the least improvement but then there was very little to meaningfully improve in the first place. Indeed, much like the previous EA Sports UFC title the striking game in UFC 4 remains a delectably enjoyable prospect. Range-finding and combo-interrupting jabs remain as satisfying as ever, while slipping punches and delivering a concussive counter hook, or devastating your foe debilitating with wicked leg kicks feels as great as it ever did. If MMA is human chess, than UFC 4 does a great job teaching them all the rules in a way that is both comprehensive and easily digestible. The backyard fights of UFC 4, complete with their scrappy, early MTV style presentation, are built around the early days of current UFC firebrand Jorge Masvidal. Away from the nitty gritty of its violent spectacle, UFC 4 also brings a hefty number of choice modes to the table as well. While the instantly gratifying delights of the ”fight now’ exhibition mode returns from previous games, EA has also reworked its Knockout and Stand and Bang modes from UFC 3 into something a little different. Leaning into something a little more exotic than the relatively manufactured UFC arena settings that we’ve been used to over the years, players can duke it out in dusty backyard fights or in a thai-boxing fight pit that looks like something out of the Van Damme kickboxer films rather than a realistic fight setting. Representing more than just a cosmetic departure from the usual arenas, these striking only modes swap out the limb damage and deep grappling systems of the main game for something that resembles an arcade brawler where each fighter has an energy bar and once that energy bar has been depleted from strikes, you lose to the person doing the hitting. Sure, it’s simple stuff and while the arenas could do with a bit more polish thanks to their flat lighting and rudimentarily detailed backgrounds, it still makes for an entertaining diversion all the same. Arguably though, the biggest strides that EA have made with its offline mode offerings is with the reinvigorated career mode. Once again telling the story of a rookie fighter looking to make it big in the octagon, UFC 4’s career mode is told in a non-linear fashion as our fighter reflects back on his previous fights with his coach as he or she builds his way up to big time, fight by fight. The striking game in UFC 4 remains as responsive and satisfying as it always has. Doubling up as an effective tutorial for UFC 4’s fundamentals, the career mode also boasts its own share of sophistication too. As before training camps and hyping the fight both have to be planned in advance of the fight. The thing is, there is sufficient latitude for risk and reward as well. For example, when you’re training your kickboxing you could actually end up knocking out your training partner at the start of an eight-week training camp, thus making them unavailable for the remaining time before the fight. More than that, having a successful training camp is all about balance. Each time you accept a fight you are given a set number of points to use in each week leading up to the fight, making the decision to split those points between training, bringing in another fighter to teach you some new moves and hyping the fight. Despite seeming like a tedious micromanagement activity, UFC 4’s career mode is anything but as it’s light and entertaining narrative, fun fights and intriguing encounters urge you to move from one fight to the next in a way that UFC 3 just wasn’t able to achieve. And then finally, away from the offline modes, we have the new Blitz Battles online mode which makes its debut in this year’s game. A refreshing addition to the other standard online modes, Blitz Battles keep things fresh by changing the ruleset from round to round, forcing players to adapt on the fly in a way that they just haven’t had to do in previous games. Don’t worry though – if the notion of rotating rulesets causes your eyes to roll into back of your skull, all the usual static competitive quick fight, tournament and online world championship modes are still available. Put simply, EA haven’t skimped on the online side of things at all. UFC 4’s career mode is a commendably light affair that doesn’t overwhelm the player with pointless management but instead zeroes on the fortunes of fledgling fighter from the underground circuit. Audiovisually, EA have also upped their game with UFC 4. The character models are not only the best that they have ever looked, but the improved animation blending makes every takedown, slipped strike and clinch trip look far more authentic than in previous games. Equally, as with the previous game, PS4 Pro owners can again toggle visual settings that favour either resolution or performance respectively. And as before, the choice is absolutely clear cut as performance mode sets a 60 frames per second cap which makes the game feel both much more responsive and satisfying to play. The difference is quite simply night and day. When it comes to the audio side of things, the punches, kicks, knees and takedowns all sound great (and are especially exaggerated in the Kumite themed knockout mode). The commentary too is entertaining and responsive to exactly what’s happening on the screen, but not having Joe Rogan’s excited tones underscoring each bout feels a little odd to say the least, though his replacement in former two-division champion Daniel Cormier, manages to step into his shoes well enough with a fusion of amusing banter and insightful fight criticism. With it’s newfound and much welcomed focus on making the game easier to play, hopefully EA Sports UFC 4 can finally secure the wider mainstream audience that it so richly deserves. With it’s reworked submissions, easier to pick up grappling and much better rounded offline and online mode offerings, this one isn’t just for the fighters, it’s for everybody. EA Sports UFC 3 Review – PS4. EA Sports UFC 3 wastes no time in making the most of its cover star, the Notorious Conor Mcgregor; as a slick video package charting the meteoric rise to stardom of the brash Dublin firebrand is then followed up by a tutorial fantasy matchup betwe en the man himself and real-life contender Tony Ferguson. In short, EA Sports UFC 3 hits the ground running and though this bombastic introduction underscores the stellar audiovisual presentation that is threaded through every strand of EA Sports UFC 3 creative DNA, it also serves as timely reminder that EA is done playing around and that, indeed, their third stab at the UFC license is the real deal. Quite honestly, it’s the feel of two highly trained, Mixed Martial Arts gladiators absolutely leathering the crap out of each other that EA Sports UFC 3 gets the most right. More than ever before, each of the fighters in EA Sports UFC 3 carry a truly pronounced feeling of weight and heft. From the almost imperceptible snap of Demetrious Johnson’s step-in jab, to the markedly more telegraphed and potentially fight-ending rear head kick of current champ Stipe Micoic; every single combative action in EA Sports UFC 3 has a real sense of physicality assigned to it which separates it from any other fighting game on the market. Everything from the striking to the grappling feels great in EA Sports UFC 3. Beyond the palpable thud of shin bone slamming into the meat of an opponent’s calf, or the sickening squelch as furious hammerfists smash up a prone foe’s facial features, EA Sports UFC 3 convincing conveyance of physicality is also expertly reflected in other, less aggressive actions too. Whether you’re just changing stances, edging forward with your lead leg or swaying your head to avoid a stunning hook, all of it just feels right and the sublime animation manages to further cement that impression with aplomb. Further continuing the ground work lain by its predecessor, EA Sports UFC 3 fully embraces all facets of Mixed Martial Arts, ranging from the striking and grappling disciplines through to the footwork and submission elements of the sport. As before, this lends EA Sports UFC 3 a level of complexity that many other fighting games simply do not possess because though 100% of fights begin standing up, there are all sorts of striking, grappling and submission exchanges which can occur to vary the outcome of the contest. EA Sports UFC 3 Review: The third time really is the charm. In this way, the potential for fight strategy is limitless. Whether you’re ripping vicious hooks to the body to deplete an opponent’s stamina, faking a pawing jab to secure a takedown en route to a submission, or, baiting an opponent in to commit to an overextended attack so you can close the distance with a brain scrambling jab, cross and uppercut combination, the sheer volume of tactical possibilities available to the player is dizzying and ensures that each and every fight will never play out the same. Ostensibly, and more so than any other fighting game on the market, a big part of any fighting strategy in EA Sports UFC 3 should be about managing your stamina reserves whilst simultaneously forcing your opponent to deplete theirs. You see, stamina governs everything; from the speed and reactions of your fighter, to their ability defend and attack with grapples and strikes, a fighter simply cannot fight effectively if they are absent the stamina to do so. As such, the act of slowly breaking down a fighter by chipping away at them with energy sapping jabs, kicks, elbows, knees and takedown attempts all add up to create a satisfying sum of digital combat that no other title can really replicate. The career mode in EA Sports UFC 3 now requires players to actively promote their upcoming fights. If you find yourself uninitiated with the sport however, and don’t know full guard from side control, or, a kimura from a d’arce choke, the extensive tutorials of EA Sports UFC 3 do a commendable job of cluing you in and getting things started in earnest. Though the multi-faceted approach that EA Sports UFC 3 takes is deep and complex, there is one element that isn’t quite up to scratch, specifically how the submissions are handled. Returning from EA Sports UFC 2 for this year’s game is the Octagon submission control system, where players must press the right analogue stick in one direction in order to attempt to break the submission hold, and then press the left analogue stick in another to defend against the opponent who is trying to secure a tap out. As was the case with the previous game in the series, it remains in this author’s mind at least a thing of absolute pump; the worst kind of mini-game distraction that serves to utterly remove you from the frenetically paced action that invariably leads to a submission being attempted in the first place. As a means of trying to remedy this, EA Sports UFC 3 offers an alternative ‘simple’ method of submission control whereby players just have to press the correct on-screen buttons in order to secure, or escape a submission hold. Though arguably better than the default submission mechanic, it still falls short of the standard that the striking and grappling aspects of the game have set and thusly makes attempting and defending submissions much more of a chore than they should otherwise be. In terms of the sheer amount of modes available to the player, it’s arguably the career mode which has enjoyed the lion’s share of the improvements in this year’s game. Able to embark on a life-spanning combat career as a male or female fighter, players can either create their own combatant from scratch, or, simply import one of the fighters that already exist; minus their attributes, perks and moves of course. More than ever before, stamina and fitness are vital to the success of your fighter. Once your fighter has been thrust into a career, you’ll begin in the minor leagues and smaller fight promotions, earning your name as you work your way up the ranks while the easier opponents that are found early on effectively double up as a dry run for you to finely tune your skills upon. More than just a way to extend the single-player experience, the career mode in EA Sports UFC 3 is a testament to just how much the real-life business has evolved and how well EA have managed to enshrine that change. Much like real-life, the career mode in EA Sports UFC 3 is as much about building up your fighter’s brand as it is putting fist to face and balancing an in-ring career with training and promotional duties. Once a fight contract has been signed, you’re allocated set amount of time to spend as you see fit between promotional and training responsibilities. Broadly speaking, the former, including posting to social media, doing gaming streams and so on, benefit your popularity and hype; the more hyped your fight is, the bigger the fight purse will be to spend on training camps. The latter on the other hand speaks for itself; you can train specific stats, learn new moves or spar with a teammate who attempts to mimic your upcoming fight. There are however, a couple of things to keep a eye on however when it comes to training. The first, is that there are a variety of gyms that you can train at, and each gym specialises a different aspect of the fight craft. The more you train at one gym, the more improvements you get in that discipline and the bigger related bonuses you receive, while likewise, the more prestigious the gym the more it will cost to join and train there. Then there’s the matter of fitness. Don’t train enough and your stamina will deplete rapidly during the fight; overtrain on the other hand, and expect your fighter to wear down and take more damage in the later rounds. While this is easy enough to manage for the most part, there will be occasions where you’ll be forced to take a last minute scrap; leaving you with just a week to prepare and forcing you to compete with little or no fitness training as such fights almost always demand mandatory press duties. The highly enjoyable Knockout Mode from EA Sports UFC 2 returns for players who want to keep things simple. Whether you’re building a rivalry with another fighter, rehabbing an injury, learning new moves, attending press junkets, talking smack over Twitter or chasing G.O.A.T status by stringing together as many finishes as possible, the career mode in EA Sports UFC 3 feels like the real thing and is arguably all the better for it. If the slow and calculated burn of EA Sports UFC 3 sprawling career mode intimidates, there are plenty of other much more immediate fistic pursuits that EA’s latest allows players to engage with. The greatly enjoyable Knockout Mode returns, once more stripping away the grappling and ground game to focus solely on contests of striking, it proves to be an effective first stop for players who are new to MMA in general and want to test themselves in a more simplified contest of violence. Elsewhere, Submission Showdown is the grappling equivalent of Knockout Mode while bracketed tournament and exhibition modes let you test your mettle against other wannabe fighters in bouts of online multiplayer action. As before, the microtransaction powered Ultimate Team mode remains as deep as ever, tasking players with creating their own fighters and employing existing ones to create a team of their own to take online and fight teams belonging to other players. This time though, the inclusion of additional single-player focused modes do a good job of including those folks who are perhaps a little too shy to take their skills online. Quite unlike the recent furore that surrounded the ill-fated launch of fellow EA product Star Wars Battlefront II, the microtransaction shenanigans of Ultimate Team are purely consigned to this mode and don’t affect any other part of the game. Fight Packs can be bought either with in-game coins, or, via a premium currency called UFC Points which can be purchased with real money and can unlock extra characters and moves for you to employ in your team. As before, Ultimate Team has a lot to offer and though you can dig deep into your pockets and buy your way to a decent team, newcomers to the mode will be cheered to know that you can amass a fairly decent number of Fight Packs simply by grinding your way through the competition without ever spending a cent. Finally, there’s the matter of EA Sports UFC 3 audiovisual presentation in so far as it’s just simply stellar. From a visual standpoint, this is arguably the finest EA Sports UFC has ever looked, with brand new animations making every strike, grapple and transition hold look scarily authentic, while the character designs boast tremendous amounts of detail that allow them deftly mimic their real-life counterparts. PS4 Pro owners especially get a good deal too, as they can choose between graphics modes that favour either resolution or performance; the latter running at 1080p/60fps, the former at a higher than 1080p resolution but locked at a solid 30fps framerate. This is especially notable because playing the game in its performance mode with the higher frame rate has a profound effect on the gameplay, as everything is that much more responsive, crisper and just easier to play all round. Continuing the fine work of EA Sports UFC 2, the commentary in this year’s game is absolutely spot-on too, with commentators Jon Anik and Joe Rogan providing timely, relevant and insightful fight commentary that matches the on-screen action perfectly and utterly puts the comparatively disinterested sounding musings of the WWE 2K games to shame. All in all, this is the best UFC product EA Sports have put it out in years . Score. The Final Word. EA Sports UFC 3 is the best the series has ever looked, sounded or played and, despite a small handful of minor shortcomings, is quite simply the best UFC title to date and a very real contender for the fighting game throne in 2018. 14 Best Games like UFC for Mobile and PC [Free & Paid] Combat games or Mixed martial Arts games have always been an underrated genre when it comes to games. Of course, moves such as Undisputed and events like the UFC championships have enjoyed a huge fan following. Well, thanks to EA’s Sports UFC, there have been a reasonable nimble number of games available to play on Android as well as on PC. Here’s the list of Games like UFC for PC and Mobile. This list of games similar to UFC contains mobile, PC, and console versions. There are even UFC management games that you might want to check out. Do note that the games have been arranged in no particular order. Games Similar to UFC. 1. Ultimate MMA. The list begins with Ultimate MMA a fighting game where you will need to progress around to unlock more than 50 moves from various martial art schools. Since it’s a fighting game, the faster you can input your moves the quicker your character responds. Ultimate MMA lets you perform Undercuts, Body moves, Hook moves, and Special moves. It also has a ton of customization features such as being able to adjust the body, facial, skin tone, and other features as well. It also lets you make use of Steam’s Remote Play feature where your friend can simply join in and stream the game. Ultimate MMA has been developed by Anton Pushkarev and has been released in 2020. It costs $4.99 and requires 4 GB of storage space. 2. MMA Arena. Here is a fighting game that is similar to EA’s UFC game as it’s got the commentary as well as gameplay style from the game. The moment you step into the gym, that’s the day you are prepped you trained to be a fighter. You will be able to join many real-life teams and train against various players in almost all styles of martial arts. When it comes to customizability you will be to do a lot, From choosing body types, hairstyles, and branded wear you get to make them look their part for the MMA arena. There lots of events and competitions that are available for you to take part in and be the best at the top. However, the game has a single-player mode is kind of a shame. MMA Arena is developed by Hidden Tower Studios was released on Steam in 2019. It requires around 2 GB of storage space and costs you $6.99. 3. Street Fighter IV Champion Edition. Coming third to the list of best games like UFC is this mobile fighting game from Capcom. This is a fun street fighter game that has around 32 characters to fight against and the option to play online with other players as well. As well as having an arcade mode in single-player is so much fun! The game has good on-screen buttons as well as the added ability to be able to connect to a Bluetooth controller. The game is free to download and has in-app purchases. However, making that one single purchase will help you unlock everything else in the game. Street Fighter IV was released in 2018 and weighs 30 MB. 4. Weekend Warriors MMA. Next in the list of best games like UFC is a mobile game, known as Weekend Warriors MMA. The game has around 300 fighters to choose from across 5 weight categories. It’s. a fun game to play with basic controls that are easy to use. However, the graphics aren’t on the great side here, but it passes as a mobile game. If you’ve completed playing with all the 300 fighters you can then purchase the backstage Pass and put any two of your 300 fighters to fight against each other. Weekend Warriors MMA has been developed by Mdickie games and was released in 2015. Weighing at 34 MB, the game is free to download off the Play Store. 5. MMA Fighting Clash. Another mobile game makes the list. MMA fighting Clash has around 50 legendary characters to choose from. You also have various games to play in such as Career, Quick Mode, Tournaments, Missions, and Challenges. There is also a multiplayer mode where you can pick your customizable character to fight with opponents. The game has simplistic controls and buttons to your left that you can tap to use various kicks and special moves. Graphically, the game seems to be good, but not that great. If you love spending time customizing your characters then, the game has plenty full of options for you to choose from. There is even a library of 100 moves for you to set up for your character. Developed by Imperium Multimedia Games and released in 2016, the game weighs 100 MB and is a free-to-play game on the Play Store. 6. Fighting Star. A simple fighting game with around 50 characters to choose from. You can enjoy UFC matches right on your phone, though at the cost of ads in the app. The controls are simple and easy to follow for those who might be playing the game for the first time. And it’s a game that one should try if one plans to the world UFC world of games as it’s a pretty small-sized app just around 25 MB. If you wish to get rid of the ads you could make some purchases within the app. There are simple movements that you can learn and use in the game. Also, like other games on the list, character customization is available. Fighting Star has been developed by Doodle Mobile and was released in 2019. The game is free to download from the Play Store. 7. MMA Fighting Games. Just like all the other mobile games in the list of best games like UFC, this is the same. It’s got all the moves you would want to use. Tournaments you would want to play and win and the career mode as well to progress around. This could be a fun game at apathy if you have friends that enjoy fighting games like these. With local Wi-Fi multiplayer mode available you can battle around for a 1v1 and maybe even go ahead and create your party tournament. The only thing the game lacks is the ability to play without requiring an active internet connection and the limited number of moves. MMA Fighting Games has been developed by Aristrokraken and was released in 2017. This free-to-play game weighs 60MB. 8. Martial Arts Training Games: MMA Fighting Manager. The only game on the list that has probably the best mobile graphics available. It has all the bells and whistles. Like its great at the number of tournaments and players you get to fight in and with, as well as easy-to-use controls. Of course, a lot of these games have simple controls, but this is probably the best. And yes, you can also play around with women fights as well! The negatives are its short gameplay. You will be able to complete the game within three to four hours as there isn’t much content available nor are there any new updates as well. Developed by Mini Sports and released in 2019, the game weighs 48MB. 9. Fight Night Champions. This one for those console gamers. Fight Night Champions is developed by EA and with that being said you can already expect how the graphics and the gameplay will be. There are various modes for you to play and compete with plus, you will be to train your character in an online gym and have a fighting match with your friends as well. You will also get to see effects like blood, pain, and even body damage that feels true to life. What’s sad about this game is that it never showed up for PC It’s a shame they never came out with a newer version of the game. It is one of the best similar games to UFC. It might be difficult to lay your hands on the game as it was released way back in 2011 and was out for the PS3 and Xbox 360. 10. UFC Undisputed 3. If you’ve watched the Undisputed movies, then you surely know what’s happening here in this game. It a great game, if you have played it previously that, is before THQ shut down altogether. The game was extremely fun considering you were able to play online and had lots of content to download and play. The game released way back in 2012 was ahead of almost all the MMA games there were available to play. If you had the PS3 or the Xbox 360 and has this particular game, you were automatically titled the cool kid on the block. The game’s graphics, gameplay, and all the characters- was so good that it got the highest and the best reviews from everyone, and the game even earned a few weeks on the top spot of the charts. It’s a shame they never thought about bringing in the game to PC. And now with THQ shut down and the licenses being sold to EA, there is nothing much that you can expect anymore. 11. MMA Simulator. Here come the simulator/manager games that almost every sports game has. It’s kinda strange they would make such games than have actual MMA fighting games. Bu, they there is a crowd that enjoys manager games and thus they are here. MMA Simulator is a managerial game that lets you manage your character. You decide who trains your character, hire sports agents, as well as guide your character as they play through fights and rounds. Probably the only good part of this game is that you can have fought around with other people online. Well, you can play offline also if you wish, but why would you? The game has been developed by SibSoft and was released in 2020. the game is free to play on the Play Store and weighs 53MB. 12. MMA Team Manager. Here is another of those managerial games that you can play, but for PC. Okay, it may be a managerial one, but you will be able to see your player fight around in matches which is quite good. You get to do all the managerial stuff like training your player from the ground up, you start at a lower league or level and then rise to be one of the best. MMA Team Manager is a good game to play nonetheless since you don’t have any more proper MMA games for PC. The game has been released by Alternative Software and was released in 2019. It requires at least 2GB of space and is currently on sale in Steam for $8.99. 13. EA Sports UFC. Here is the EA’s take on UFC on the mobile platform. It’s a good game if you look at its graphics, sounds, and gameplay plus there are no ads which is a good thing, to be honest. You have a lot of modes to play through and be at the top of your league. However, the only downside is that you might have to shell out cash to be able to win some matches. Like maybe it’s your player that’s, not the best rank to win the game, and you might have zero or little chance to be able to upgrade only if you might plan to grind otherwise, simply cough up some cash, and way to win. It’s what EA is known for. The game is free and weighs 1.2GB with other in-app downloads. 14. EA Sports UFC 4. We end the list of best games similar to UFC with the only latest available game but for the PS4 and Xbox One. Remember the UFC Undisputed 3 game from THQ? This is what happened to the game. Since EA got the rights for the game, it lost its fame with the annoying pay-to-win strategy. EA Sports UFC 4 is a good game if you look at graphics, gameplay, and the number of characters that can be selected. Of course, as time flies, newer tech joins the real sport, which can also be seen in the game as well/ The game was released in 2020 and we might have to just hope they release a PC version of the game. Concluding Thoughts on games like UFC for PC and Mobile. UFC is a great sport and there a lot of people who love the sports. However, it’s a bit disappointing when you look at games for PC, you don’t have any choice to choose from. Looking at this year and many games that were exclusive to the consoles are now being ported out to PC so we could hope for a PC version of EA’s UFC Sports and hopefully, other game developers might jump in a release out some really good UFC games. If we’ve missed your favorite FIFA 21 alternative, then let us know in the comment section. Also, share this article with your friends.