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Looking for more games to play? These are our picks of the best PS4 and Xbox One games.UFC 3 will be available for Xbox One and PS4 on February 2. While far from the GOAT it hopes to be, UFC 3 is still a prospect with plenty of potential for greatness. With an up-to-date roster, plenty of online/offline modes and the most authentic recreation of the sport’s over-the-top pomp, it’s certainly not lacking in content.
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You’re getting the true spiritual successor to the boxing-centric and long defunct Fight Night series with an unparalleled set of striking mechanics and gruesome damage model, but it lets itself down by failing to elevate the intricate DNA of takedowns and submissions, demoting them to WWE 2K18-style mini-games. Make no mistake, UFC 3 is the best MMA game ever made, but it’s a title that comes with a handful of concessions. Fortunately, they won't affect any mode outside of Ultimate Team though you'd think some lessons would have been learned after Star Wars Battlefront 2. Some of the elements feel very pay-to-win – you can buy packs that basically make strikes stronger and submissions near impossible to escape. They come in the form of card packs which can be purchased with real-life or in-game currency earned by grinding, and it's a very similar system to UFC 2. It’s a calling card for EA Sports games at this point, but UFC 3 does have the option for microtransactions in its Ultimate Team mode. Or you can attempt to take down your favorite fighters online in UFC Ultimate Team. If you like focusing on one fight distinction over another you can explore Submission Showdown, Stand And Bang and Knockout mode. There are plenty of other modes to keep you interested. Well, all except Joe Rogan’s bizarre commentary delivery that sounds so phoned in it’s painful. Whether its Bruce Buffer’s eternally enthusiastic announcing or seeing everyone from Herb Dean to Big John McCarthy officiating in the Octagon, this game nails the fight night atmosphere to a tee. Thankfully, it’s elevated by how authentically UFC 3 captures the pomp and presentation of a real UFC PPV. The attempt to mix in a more authentic behind-the-scenes aspect fails, mainly because promoting your fight with a set of generic tweets is as hollow as it sounds, as is the inclusion of FMV featuring Dana White and co as they attempt to ‘hype’ your arrival as the next hot prospect in MMA. You’ll need to be fit enough come fight day, but managing the ever-looming shadow of over-training (which will leave you sluggish and prone to attack in the fight), adds an extra plate to spin. There's also a real agency to being able to up your fitness with cardiovascular routines, train with real-life fighters to learn a new strategy on your upcoming opponent and test these new skills in a sparring session. You get to choose the weight class and fighting style of your fighter from the off, ranging from strike-happy boxers, to wrestle-minded grapplers, and every combination in between.
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On the one bandage-wrapped hand, the minutia of your fight-to-fight training is now split into a set of sub-menus that enable you to up your fitness and incrementally increase your overall stats. In their place we get something that attempts to better represent the life of a fighter on his journey to the big leagues. The repetitive mini-games found in UFC 2 have thankfully been dropped. There’s no FIFA 18 The Journey-style story mode here – instead, EA Canada has attempted to emulate the journey of a fighter from a no-name fighting league to the ridiculous pomp of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. The rejigged GOAT Career mode is the real centerpiece for 2018’s MMA simulator, and it’s here we get to see everything UFC 3 does right, and indeed wrong. You now have three health bars (head, body and legs) and each one recovers at a different speed, forcing you to use distance and the clinch far more knowingly. Striking, exactly as it should be in MMA, is now a more tactical affair. Both button inputs and the overall deadliness of each strike has been tweaked, in an attempt to move the game away from the button-bashing beat-’em-up setup that made the previous game a frustrating troll fest online. Striking has been completely overhauled for UFC 3, and it makes for the most tactical MMA experience yet. Over the course of any given fight you'll see them develop everything from swollen eyes, to legs that care barely take any weight. Every punch to the face, every hard kick to the shins, every crunching takedown to the mat leaves an impact on the dynamically changing body of your fighter. Ignite does, however, make for one of the most impressive damage models we’ve ever seen out of a racer or an open-world shooter.