EA Sports UFC

Game Rant

Andrew Dyce

It was obviously EA and UFC's goal to give fans of the sport a video game franchise that encapsulated all their was to love about it. EA Sports UFC is absolutely that, even if all aspects of the sport are not adapted equally.

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IGN

Vince Ingenito

6.8 / 10.0

As great as it looks, EA Sports UFC fails to capture the high stakes excitement that makes MMA such a great sport.

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Eurogamer

Jon Denton

7 / 10

EA Sports UFC is a game capable of brilliance. It's let down by some curious design decisions, signs of a team perhaps too interested in capturing non-essential moves seen on YouTube rather than nailing the essence of the sport. But when it flows against human competition, it offers beautiful destruction and glorious drama. Landing a picture-perfect head kick in the final minute of the fifth round of a title fight? Well, it doesn't get much better. And if that's not worth a fistbump, I don't know what is.

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GamesRadar+

Dave Rudden

EA Sports UFC boasts incredibly detailed fighters and great combat. However, this debut effort from a new publisher lacks the single-player balance and the variety of modes that previous UFC games brought to the ring.

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Game Informer

Ben Reeves

8 / 10.0

The fighting system has a bit of a learning curve to overcome before you can appreciate the combat

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Polygon

Arthur Gies

5 / 10.0

EA Sports UFC feels barely held together, a collection of parts that are often as frustrating as they are poorly explained. Somewhere, in all of the complication and opacity, is a game unlike anything else out there, that finds the unpredictability and wildness that set MMA apart from other combat sports. But there's an awful lot of bad to dig through to find it.

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GameSpot

Josiah Renaudin

5 / 10

EA Sports UFC looks almost as good as a real MMA fight, but poorly balanced systems dull the excitement.

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Hardcore Gamer

Adam Beck

3 / 5.0

EA Sports has been developing their first UFC game for some time now and, while they have shown they know their material, it's unfortunately weighed down by shortcomings. On one hand, the mechanics are satisfying as timing counters and ground passes are down to precision.

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