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[Gotmadskillzson]

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have you finished the career? Overall how was it?

Career is a blast, in the fact you really got to remember the rule set of where you choose to fight in. Like in strikeforce rules you can't do elbows on the ground, in brazil anything goes and in japan anything goes except for elbows.

That being said when you fighting in Japan and Brazil, get the heck up off the ground as fast as possible when you see your opponent get off the ground. If not you will either get soccer kicked to the face or face stomped.

Also the round differences really effects your strategy too. In Brazil and Japan you really got to pace yourself. Over all the higher you rank up, the tougher the cpu is and every know and then you will fight somebody that is really good at a skill that you are really bad in. And they will exploit it too.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Oh I must say I am amazed how effective jabs, leg kicks, fake shots and fake shooting is in this game. I played as Randy vs Tim Silvia last night and it was a blast.

I was able to take big Tim down at will in the 1st round. Came second round I would fake it, Tim would try to block it, which allowed me to clock him with an overhand right.

Just like when I play as Nick Diaz I love jabbing my opponents. Also when I played against the cpu, forgot who it was but he was eating my leg up with leg kicks and the guy I was using had a low block rating and low leg health. Needless to say my movement came to a snail pace.

[DaveDQ]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

You must press it as fast as possible when you are rocked and they are beating u up for the TKO. You must regain the full bar for them to wrap up and "survive". So it is a speed game of how fast you can build the bar back up vs them landing each punch to drain it. At first I was doing it the speed of the submissions and quickly learned that is not the correct route.

Thanks for this..can't wait to try it now.

Quote: Originally Posted by King10Sooted

Thanks. I was doing it totally wrong too. I still suck at chokeholds too though. No matter what I do it seems I get submitted.

In the career tutorial they teach you to go from 3 o'clock to 9 o'clock and vice versa. I hardly ever go above that when in a choke.

[goh]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jukeman

have you finished the career? Overall how was it?

Nope. They're talking about a champion vs. champion match so I'm pretty far in I guess. I went with Japan instead of Strikeforce.

Pretty good overall. Sapres a lot of hassle being able to sim and get the same grade in training. It feels like they wanted to add a lot more to it though. Like they say when you train with someone they'll be in your corner for the next fight,I'm not sure what,if any effect it has,doesn't seem to be any. Then there's the e-mail girl that's constantly flirting,not sure if that ever goes anywhere or not. Though last time she said "with all those wins you should have enough money to get a decent haircut now." You've got your very own internet fan that writes articles on you but I don't think you ever actually meet him or do an interview or anything like that. Based on the achievements a rivalry fight should've happend at some point but maybe you have to lose to have it considered a rivalry? I did fight the same the guy 3-4 times but didn't get the achievement. Was expecting more gyms as well. What's there is good though. Other than not knowing how to change difficulty for quite some time there were no major problems. They're good about learning moves too. It doesn't take up a week and you can have all the attempts you want. That was useful when trying to learn some of the stand up ones. Just wanted to fill it out and had all the ground/sub stuff I wanted/needed. Really liked the look of the Japan and Thailand places. Also as I mentioned earlier you get to actually train without worrying about having to go into a fight with half your health or something stupid like that.

[King10Sooted]

Quote: Originally Posted by DaveDQ

In the career tutorial they teach you to go from 3 o'clock to 9 o'clock and vice versa. I hardly ever go above that when in a choke.

Yea, I played through that. I still suck at it and have problems with it lol. Still a great game though.

[goh]

Forgot to give love to the parry system. Nice job there too.

[JoeMimic]

I love how they will pronounce some created fighter names even if they aren't on the list and you put them in there custom. For instance they have the first name Clay but not the last name Guida however if you input Guida as his last name it will announce him as such. Very cool.

[Araxen]

I really love this game. My only complaints right now is mainly with presentation which I'm sure will be fixed in the next years game.

My nitpicks:

Not being able to use custom music for your created fighters
Sign Dream or Sengoku for a proper Japanese Promotion
More celebration animations, etc...
Proper Japanese Crowd

The core of the game is excellent though.

Pride Lady as announcer for Japanese fights was a welcomed touch!

PS: For next years game hire "The Voice" Michael Schiavello as the games fight commentator. Get rid of Mauro and Frank.