Pride FC: Fighting Championships PlayStation 2
  • Publisher: THQ
  • Release Date: Feb 11, 2003
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Metascore
73 out of 100

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8.3 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 6 Ratings

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  • Summary: The most realistic "No Holds Barred" fighting videogame for the PS2. Fighters are accurately recreated in amazing detail with appearance, fighting style, movements and signature ring entrances. Various combat elements capture the intensity and authenticity of a Pride contest including multiple fighting positions, unique fighting styles, hundreds of moves, counters and reversals. With a TV-style presentation, each match-up comes to life in fully scaled arenas complete with ring announcers, lighting, pyrotechnics and realistic camera angles. [THQ]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. GameNow
    91
    A bloody, intense game that almost perfectly captures all of the excitement of the world's premiere fighting sport. [Mar 2003, p.49]
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  2. GameSpy
    82
    Pride FC has one-upped UFC's efforts and is clearly the champion of MMA games. Though they are very similar on paper, Pride FC has more depth than its UFC counterpart.
  3. Armchair Empire
    70
    A strikingly realistic fighting game that will be immensely fun for those to rent, but I can’t imagine getting more than 15 hours of enjoyment out of the game.
  4. Game Revolution
    42
    Carried over from the last generation, this fighting game just feels old and fights with no heart whatsoever.

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  1. Positive: 5 out of 5
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  1. JuniorP.
    10
    Hows it going, I just came back from sea, I'm in the Navy, and when I came back to San Diego, my little cousin told me about this game, so I went yesterday to Target, and I bought the game, and I was like DAMN! this game is shisnicks, I especially like it how you can create your own fighter, that part was pretty bomb. … Expand
  2. Carlos
    8
    Solid, fundamental and responsive biggest flaw is the lack of any type of season or stat tracking. Also the ring entrances could have been shorter, sometimes they last longer than the matches, but Pride/fc is an all around fun fighter very similar to the tekken series. And if the game developers are reading this, we'd like to see the losers suffer a little more in the submission holds heheh.… Expand
  3. SethY.
    8
    It's nice but a career mode would've made it a hundred times better.
  4. LeeR.
    7
    The game is more realistic than ufc but lacks in the career mode or stat tracking.

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