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

[ManiacMatt1782]

Just great. My copy is sitting at home, while I am in the hospital because a growth on my neck/back/shoulder decided to swell get painful and change colors. I am waiting in the er for like 2 hours now. If my neck didn't feel like it was about to explode, I'd leave.

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782

Just great. My copy is sitting at home, while I am in the hospital because a growth on my neck/back/shoulder decided to swell get painful and change colors. I am waiting in the er for like 2 hours now. If my neck didn't feel like it was about to explode, I'd leave.

Mine too. It is sitting at my house while I am stuck at work Can't WAIT for 5!!!!!!!!!

Matt and Quick we need to test some games this weekend.

[aholbert32]

Just got my copy...impressions coming soon.

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by aholbert32

Just got my copy...impressions coming soon.

Tight!!! Hit us up with what the retail feels different compared to the demo. Also does the difficulty feel better for the retail single player.

Thanks bud

Ohhhh and don't run aholbert, get yo *** in the league and come swing down with us.

[aholbert32]

2 fights in and everything I thought would be good about the game is good...and everything I thought would be bad is bad. I'll start with the bad.

Fedor vs. Rogers - I'm Fedor and immediately Rogers goes for a thai clinch. He gets it and I use a trip takedown to take him down. That sequence looked great. The one thing I feared would be bad about this game was the reversals and it appears I was right. I take down Rogers, he immediately reverses out of half guard to side contol on me. He then immediately goes to full mount and when I give him my back, he tries a rear naked choke.


Now Ive seen Rogers fight 4 times and I've never seen him have a good enough ground game to reverse anyone much less Fedor. Ive also never seen him go for a submission but within 1 min of the match he is attempting one. He reversed Fedor 3 times in round 1. THAT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

The rest of the fight was fine. Fedor won by TKO after I got full mount and pounded him out.

The second fight was Eddie Alverez v. JZ- This was a whole lot of fun. JZ Cavalcante is a takedown machine and choked me out pretty fast. I had him stunned in the first but the CPU did the right thing by backpeddling and covering up.

I will say I was one of the few people who like and regularly play UFC 2010 but EA MMA has it beat when it comes to striking, ground game and submissions systems. Only major gripes I have so far is CPU controlled fighters not fighting like their real life counterparts, missing presentation elements like sponsors on certain fighters shorts and annoying commentary. I also prefer the speed of UFC 2010. The striking seems to be too fast at times in EA MMA. Also 5 min rounds are too long and leads to innacurate stats like 15 takedown attempts around.

[ManiacMatt1782]

ok out of the hospital and installing now, aholbert, do i need to confirm i have it with a pic, or is my rep on here good enough that you guys can take my word for it?

[aholbert32]

Quote: Originally Posted by ManiacMatt1782

ok out of the hospital and installing now, aholbert, do i need to confirm i have it with a pic, or is my rep on here good enough that you guys can take my word for it?

Nah this isnt Madden. Go ahead and post.

Seeing a reversal issue again. This time Melvin Manhoef was reversing me like crazy on Hard.

[Phobia]

See aholbert I never had a reverse issue with the CPU in the demo. It was honestly way to easy for the user I felt. I could reverse far more often and never let the CPU pass on me.