Vincent Calonzo

Story mode is mediocre. Grinding skills takes way too long to do, and once champion for awhile, you start to face the same 4-6 contenders every defense so you may face the same fighter 3-4 times. Otherwise, gameplay is passable. Online is unplayable. There is little to no punishment for spamming. Players can throw a mass of strikes consecutively until your player’s guard is broken. Not to mention, you can be flash KO’d while blocking regardless of how much health you have. Flash KO’s themselves are a major issue. I get it, it’s mma, you can get knocked out at any moment. But there is absolutely no consistency in the mechanics. You can drop your opponent multiple times only to be block-broken KO’d. Clinch grappling is abysmal. There’s no HUD like in previous games, so clinch grappling is nonexistent unless your opponent pins you against the cage. The matchmaking makes 0 sense. You can be on a losing streak and fight someone +4 divisions higher than you. Characters are seldom added to the game, and the fighters that are never get updated. Dominick Cruz has looked the same since the first EA UFC game. It’s unreal how little EA pays attention to details.

EA may be the worst company on the planet (only a slight hyperbole). It’s clear they do not care about their consumers at all. I’ve encountered so many bugs while playing franchise, and every time their response is the same: “you should consult the forums,” or “try deleting game data and restarting.” The fact that they refer you to the thousands of other players having the same problem instead of having some accountability and actually trying to mediate these issues, they say “nah it’s on you buddy, bugs are your problem.” I don’t have time to get into the issues with gameplay as I don’t want to write a 2000 word essay in this review section, so please consult the other thousand reviews who share my thoughts on how abysmal this game really is. I don’t know why we keep funding this company to produce garbage every year. Please reconsider buying the new one when it comes out because guess what? It’ll be the same game as this year anyway.