PlayStation

Ultimate Fighting Championship

We might be looking at Fighting Game of the Year here. A couple minor glitches aside, UFC has the markings of a true winner. Right off of E3, I swore I'd give UFC a perfect 5 GiN Gem rating because of how I was blown away with it. I'm still keeping my word, because UFC did what many other games failed to do, deliver through all the hype. In fact, once again this is one of those select few titles that should get a 6 GiN Gem rating, but our reviews limit it to just 5. Oh well. Crave, consider the 6th GiN Gem on me!

Here's a nice change of pace. For the first time I can think of, a game was made for Dreamcast, then downgraded to run on PlayStation. I can see why this hasn't been done before. Every facet of the game had to be taken down a serious notch. The most unkind alteration of them all is the animation. The smooth graphics that allowed for a festival of strategic countering have been reduced to a chop-fest that makes pulling off the move you intend more difficult than necessary. Anyone who's played the Dreamcast version of UFC will laugh their asses off at this PlayStation attempt, but the basic engine still makes for one of the more interesting, and challenging, fighters released this year.

Wieder mal so ein Kandidat, der, wenn man ihn zuerst auf Dreamcast gesehen hat, als runtergerechnete 32-Bit-Version keinen mehr vom Hocker reißt. Gelegenheitsspieler sollten sogar besser um beide Versionen einen großen Bogen machen, denn die Duelle mit den CPU-Gegnern sind aufgrund deren Überlegenheit nicht wirklich der Hit. Außerdem vermisse ich ein wenig die Abwechslung, denn die Kampfführung ist stets dieselbe: Erst ein paar Alibi-Schläge abtauschen, dann geht's auf den Boden, wo man versucht, den anderen in einen Aufgabe-Hebel zu zwingen. Dazu die hässliche Zwei-Phasen-Zuschauer-Anmation und die stets gleichen Ringe - muss nicht unbedingt sein.

Nej, det här spelet var ingenting för mig. Kanske man uppskattar det mer om man är ett fanatiskt fan av Ultimate Fighting, hur många sådana det nu finns. Själv tycker jag inte att spelet är mycket roligare än att själv stå i buren. Omgiven av fiskarna. Huga!

No matter how big of a fan of the UFC you may be, the game's poor control and graphics just simply ruin the game and make it totally unenjoyable.