Fight Night Round 4 vs. UFC 2009 Undisputed: The Showdown

[allBthere]

Quote: Originally Posted by TheCreep

I just go with whatever game gets the most spin in my xbox. So I'll give the winner to FN4, because ever since I purchased FN, UFC has been collecting dust. UFCs a pretty good game, but FN legacy mode is more dynamic with randomly generated AI boxers and CAB imports, so your career is different every single time. UFC career mode has the same exact fighters in every career you start and no CAB imports, that killed it for me right there.

you make some good points about career...but I'm the opposite of you, I bought fn4, did a career, saw the ufc box and decided to play some and it hasn't left since. It's just waaaaay more fun, strategic, visceral, and satisfying. The strikes have intent to injure, I'll still wince occasionally when I get rocked, and online I'll jump up off the couch for various reasons including getting out of a submission frantically, scoring a ko, waiting for the judges.

the UFC captures the sport and the brutality much better - and I'd like to make sure it's understood my points are made by someone who enjoys watching both on TV equally. I love a good boxing match, and love me some good UFC, my post history shows this to be true.

The boxing in fn is stuck in the mud...they really need to get rid of that crappy counter system (ufc has it but doesn't make a 'sub-game' around it) and re-animate pretty much everything.

There are a few things it does better in the career (not the minigames!) but they aren't as impactful as I originally thought. photo game face and especially BoxerSHare are effing AWESOME! and I hope Yukes steals that stuff and puts it in their game.

All in all I've been thrilled with my UFC game, and the longer I have FN4, the more I kind of think I should have rented it. I think it's highly overrated accross the board. For me it's a 7.5max (which is still good) Here's hoping they make the punches matter the next time around. For me the gameplay isn't even close, UFC simply on a different (higher) level.

[statum71]

My vote's for Fight Night........

I really like UFC. But boxer share and DLC are gonna keep Fight Night playable for a long, long time in my house.

I'm already up ot 87 fighters!!!! And just WAITING for a good Holyfield to show up.

[T-villesFinest74]

My vote also goes to FNR4

I liked both games but for me the career mode in UFC was to short and the one in FNR4 seamed alot longer to me. But like Richard said at the end of the year both games will be at the top of there sport. I want to see if UFC can stay there when EA puts it MMA title out. Guess we will have to wait and see. Richard this was a great read. Good job

[SHO]

I wonder why this wasn't posted in the MMA forum as well....

[RoyalBoyle78]

sorry, dumb comparison, these games are total different sports, it's like comparing golf to football.

[teambayern]

Quote: Originally Posted by FootballForever

sorry, dumb comparison, these games are total different sports, it's like comparing golf to football.

Maybe if you're an aficionado of one or the other, but for a casual fan like me it's closer to comparing football to rugby. Similar skillsets and goals, just different rules and styles.

For me and I'd bet many others, these two games were considered side by side as rivals for our hard-earned $60.

[pike]

I have both games, and I can sum up easily why I like FN better than UFC hands down:

Just finished a fight between Lennox Lewis and Jermaine Taylor. Lewis is a much bigger fighter, with better reach. But Taylor is quick and powerful inside. I'm playing as Lewis, and trying to keep Taylor outside, but it is a constant battle with Taylor working his way in close in nearly every round. Just couldn't stay away from him. All the same, I have the power advantage and with a few well placed hits, I have Taylor on the mat in Round 5. He gets up. 3 rounds later, I'm on the mat and bounce back up. The commentators are telling me I've lost this one bad on the scorecards. And I figure I am, since Taylor is getting alot more shots in than I am, since I have not really been able to keep him where I want him--outside. But I keep taking my shots, wearing him out with lots of body shots and hitting him square in the head when I can. And so it comes down to Round 10, after a full 29 minutes of fighting......I know if this goes to the cards, I lose. But I've rocked Taylor several times in this round, and my body shots are finally having an effect---he's slowing way down, getting sloppy even. And then it comes....Taylor comes with an

[pike]

oops! story continues.....

ill-advised haymaker, and I weave and come around with a vicious uppercut counter punch that catches Taylor square. He's down. Will he get up? At the 5 count, he's up, then down......at 8, he's back up....will he stay up...is the fight over, am I going to lose on the cards after putting this guy nearly to sleep? Nope.....Taylor falls, and the fight is over. 30 minutes of pure gaming bliss that I have not found with ANY other sports game that I can remember. As for the cards......it would have been a lopsided 87-82 victory for Taylor.

UFC?

After getting my created fighter's stats up enough to call him a true kickboxer, most of my fights end in the first round, or early second with a blow to my opponents head that lands flush across the back of the neck. A couple of fights go to the 3rd when my opponent insists on spamming shoot takedowns over and over. Fun? Sure. But it lasts for about 4-5 minutes and then its back to less-than-fun minigames and the worst menu system I have ever seen. I know that the quick fights are somewhat true to life---UFC fights can end in a heartbeat, we all know that. But I also know that not every fight is a wham-bam-thank-you-ma'm affair that seems the norm in Undisputed.

I realize that my 2 cents on the matter is hardly scientific, or really qualified, but it's really not close for me as to which of these is the best fighting simulation on the market.

I will say that it would not surprise me to see both games as heavy contenders for Sports Game of the Year.......unless Madden actually lives up to the hype.