The story is more than serviceable for a sports game. If you want to meticulously develop a fighter that is both fierce and fashionable, you have to progress the story a bit. As far as defining your character’s strengths and weaknesses, though, this is only the beginning.

If you want to spend some real-life money, you can fully realize your aesthetic vision before you even start playing. For reference, the Goku-esque “anime white,” accessory is priced between four and five dollars’ worth of currency. It is in these menus, and only here, that you can begin dropping real life money for virtual currency. The game moves fast and you are immediately thrown into UFC 4’s “career mode” where you can, “fight your way from the amateurs to the UFC Hall of Fame.” The first thing you will see after a short cutscene is a character creation screen full of mechanical and cosmetic choices for you to make. Remember this when your character is on the ground taking a loud and bloody beating and you’re desperately trying to figure out how to make them punch back, cover their face, stand back up, or do basically anything other than bleed. I’m leading with this to encourage giving the game its fair shot even though it is very possible that the game will feel frustrating or intimidating to newcomers. I’m glad, too, because that’s a concept that is, unlike the finer points of strategy in MMA, pretty easy to explain to people. And it was for a little while but now I am able to claim that it is an excellent game and I love playing it. The hope was that EA Sports UFC 4 would be the game to finally get there.ĭespite the excitement from fans, an hour into playing, I felt positive that EA Sports UFC 4 was going to be one of those rare cases of an excellent game that I absolutely hate playing.

The third game came so close to nailing it, and was a very well-received entry. Leaps and bounds toward an unparalleled UFC experience were made with the second game. Honestly, it was pretty lackluster but it was also the only big game in the genre. The first game in the EA Sport's UFC series came out in 2014.

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