EA Sports MMA Demo Available, Post Impressions Here (360, PS3)

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by goh

Pull guard?

To pull guard you must first get the clinch. They can block you from grabbing the clinch so you must wear them down to get a successful clinch.

Then you must also have the move to pull guard. Only certain guys have it and my BJJ career guy has it but getting a successful clinch is not easy.

The game is balanced wonderfully

[ManiacMatt1782]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

Yea guys is was a absolute blast. This game is soooooo damn fun. I am literally addicted to it. The chess match that is online is bar none one of the best fighting games to ever get released. Literally everything has a counter and nothing feels cheap or cheesy. When you lose you know what you did wrong or what you should have done differently. To put it in perspective. I got NBA2k11 sitting next to me but can't force myself to take EA MMA out the drive because it is that fun. That is saying a lot. The career mode is so cool and done VERY well. The multiplayer is a whole other league of its own. The fight card feature is literally next gen. The most fun I have had laughing and joking around playing a game in years. That 3 second KO on Rogers was jaw dropping and deserved to be saved and shown to the world LMAO

i think all 3 of us said oh **** in unison when that happened. I have had a one shot KO before, as in not off of a combo, that was my first literal 1st punch of the fight ko, and the sick part is, it didnt even feel cheap. we toucheched gloves quik came out with a overhand but i was going for the super man and landed 1st. it looked like a real KO. I cant wait to have some more fight cards, watching some of the fight was as fun as playing them, it gave me the old nostalgia of being at the corner store with the coin op street fighter and mortal kombat games, watching your opponent fight before you came in and got your turn.

edit: yes I do now feel old talking about mortal kombat and street fighter coin op machines

[DaveDQ]

You guys are going to make me go to the midnight release of this.

[DirtyJerz32]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

You guys are going to make me go to the midnight release of this.

I was about to say the same thing.

Edit: I'm picking my copy at 12am. Damn you guys and the good impressions...

[sb24]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

You guys are going to make me go to the midnight release of this.

I wont say midnight release, but I am really interested. Not sure if I have the time for another game tho .

[CaptainZombie]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

Yea guys is was a absolute blast. This game is soooooo damn fun. I am literally addicted to it. The chess match that is online is bar none one of the best fighting games to ever get released. Literally everything has a counter and nothing feels cheap or cheesy. When you lose you know what you did wrong or what you should have done differently. To put it in perspective. I got NBA2k11 sitting next to me but can't force myself to take EA MMA out the drive because it is that fun. That is saying a lot. The career mode is so cool and done VERY well. The multiplayer is a whole other league of its own. The fight card feature is literally next gen. The most fun I have had laughing and joking around playing a game in years. That 3 second KO on Rogers was jaw dropping and deserved to be saved and shown to the world LMAO

Phobia, which system are you playing this on and does the gameplay feel fluid?

Any details on the basis of the career mode that you can share?

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782

i think all 3 of us said oh **** in unison when that happened. I have had a one shot KO before, as in not off of a combo, that was my first literal 1st punch of the fight ko, and the sick part is, it didnt even feel cheap. we toucheched gloves quik came out with a overhand but i was going for the super man and landed 1st. it looked like a real KO. I cant wait to have some more fight cards, watching some of the fight was as fun as playing them, it gave me the old nostalgia of being at the corner store with the coin op street fighter and mortal kombat games, watching your opponent fight before you came in and got your turn. edit: yes I do now feel old talking about mortal kombat and street fighter coin op machines

I know huh. It was so much fun. It was like you said about the old coin op experience of watching and waiting for you to get on the sticks.

The FUN the game offers is flat out excellent. I was hoping it would just be fun, but it FAR surpassed my expectations. Truly a dark horse for my game of the year. This will be EA MMA's year that UFC 2009 had.

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

You guys are going to make me go to the midnight release of this.

LOL Dave you will love it

Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainZombie

Phobia, which system are you playing this on and does the gameplay feel fluid? Any details on the basis of the career mode that you can share?

Capt, it is extremely fluid. The striking looks great, the controls are tightened up from the demo, sways and steps are easier, the movement speed is slightly reduced, stamina feels wonderful, submissions are a blast against a human. Just a whole lot of fun

I am on 360

The career is done pretty good from what I have experienced so far. First you create your fighter. He has all the moves you would expect most fighters to have. Then you pick a minor league to join between two options. Then you fight your way up through that league. Once you make enough money you get a option to travel and go train with certain camps. This is where the building of your fighter comes in. Because each camp offers only certain moves. You have 16 slots for special moves so you must choose wisely to your fighters style.

Now these camps not only offer you certain moves(which you must earn). But each camp also focuses on certain fight styles. So there is boxing, MT, Kick boxing, BJJ, JUDO, etc. Now these camps when you train your fighter to increase stats only offer train in certain areas depending on their focus.

So a Boxing school might help you learn advanced boxing combos, or some small ground work, MAYBE a submission here or there. But a boxing school will be very limited to anything outside of its focus. So if you want to focus on improving your kicks, heading to a BJJ camp is not going to do much for you. If they even offer any training for it at all. Instead you would want to spend the time and money at a kick boxing camp.

So before each fight you have 8 weeks of training. You pick your travel plans and then you spend 8 weeks training with that camp. After 8 weeks it is fight time. Then you do it again after each fight, pick a travel and camp, then 8 weeks of training.

Once you work your way up the ladder of each league and you attain the belt. You get offers to other high leagues such as the Brazil league or japan league with its own set of rules. Your goal is to earn enough rep to make it to the pro strikeforce league.

Along the way you are learning new moves and filling out your 16 special moves slots.

I am currently 11-1 and have filled out 10 slots of moves. Mainly stuck with my strengths. I created a BJJ base fighter and his submissions came in at the high 80s. With his chin and gut in the low 30s. So he can only eat a punch or two before possibly being rocked.

So I started out picking only BJJ camps so i could attain BJJ moves and submissions like the triangle, submission transitions, arm bar, etc. Once I got my moves acquired that I wanted for my main focus of BJJ. I have been spending the last few camps trying to improve my poor striking, poor chin, and poor heart. But since my guy is not a boxing or kick boxing focus guy he has a LOOOONG way to go before being decent or could stand toe to toe with a generalist or striker.

I LOVE the system so far. It seems fair and reminds me of APF in the sense you have to pick where you will be strong at and where you will be weak at. Are you could even be middle of the road everywhere. You place the moves you want for your style of fighter and you go through the career.

I also love the simulate part of training. For guys who dislike the training mini games. Once you do a training mini game you get a letter grade(A, B, C D, F). Then if you want to continue training that area but don't want to do it your self. You can simulate the training and it will give you the points you earned on your last training sessions.

So for me when I wanted to work on striking for 5 or 6 of the 8 weeks. I would pick a training session that worked on a area I wanted. Like left hand power, stamina, and chin. Then I would go through the mini game and get a letter grade of a A. Then I would simulate it for 3 or 4 more times and quickly knock out the training and build on a area I wanted to focus on real quick.

It makes getting back to the fighting much quicker and is a breeze of a system to use once you know what you are doing.

[DJ]

^Career mode sounds 100% better than UFC's.