EA Sports UFC 3

1. ps4lover

   Jan 30, 2018

   10

   Career mode is hell fun to play.. gameplay is great including strike.. grappling is kinda annoying and kinda frustrating.. graphic look greatCareer mode is hell fun to play.. gameplay is great including strike.. grappling is kinda annoying and kinda frustrating.. graphic look great especially fighter model… Expand

   • 20 of 42 users found this helpful
2. Vladyvinogrady

   Jan 31, 2018

   9

   This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. this is a very good simulation of MMA.
   EA Sports did the work on the bugs and olosely UFC 2
   But this is not ideal, there is still work to do!… Expand

   • 13 of 27 users found this helpful
4. SuperkenGaming

   Feb 6, 2018

   6

   UFC 3
   I appreciate its attempts, but its just not fun.
   UFC is a pretty bare bones game.. theres a microtransaction filled card basedUFC 3
   I appreciate its attempts, but its just not fun.
   UFC is a pretty bare bones game.. theres a microtransaction filled card based ultimate team mode, a fight mode both local and online, a career mode, and a create a fighter option.
   Career mode is one of the better career modes in a sports game, there are rivalries, and time management as youre putting your character through different camps to learn different moves and earn perks throughout for fighting career on your path to be the greates of all time. Aka the goat as the kids would say.. There are cutscenes here and there but longshot from madden has changed the game in terms of campaign and career modes…
   so if there isn’t a real story, get this garbage out of here.
   Just kidding, its not garbage.. its fun building your character up, but still, this game is lacking substance and a proper campaign woudlve gave this game just that..
   Online here had a few hickups with lagging, but most of the time worked fine..
   But now lets dive deep into the actual mechanics.
   As a mixed martial artist myself I appreciated what the team was trying to achieve with its different systems for stand up and ground, but ultamtely found the balance here to be unrealistic.
   UFC 3 is a stamina based fighting game.. on paper that sounds great
   You have to know when to block, and know when to strike
   When your character is low on stamina they become vulnerable for a knockout, all of this is true for real fighting
   You lose stamina by missing shots or just straight up striking, no issue there.. this again forces balance.. it forces you to pick your shots… however this system is highly in favor of a defensive player like this is boxing or point karate.. which it isn’t.. this is cage fighting
   Power is going into strikes here, these arnt love taps
   It makes no sense for my character to get in dozens of unanswered strikes while my opponent just absorbs them all and im now at the disadvantage for using up all of my stamina…
   Being hit with a clean strike should effect opponents stamina as it does in an actual fight
   But it doesn’t, their stimana is only effected when theyre striking back
   I am happy with the detail put into the stand up game though, youre able to move your head with the right stick, switch stance at any moment, every character has their own move set to stop them feeling completely the same even though at the end of the day.. every character handles identically.. slight alterations in their move sets do give the fighters a bit of personality..
   This fighting system is not beginner friendly though..
   It takes a lot of memorizing combinations and commands for roundhouse, front kick, side kicks, jab, uppercut , if youre going to strike with lead, if youre going for body or head when you hold down a certain shoulder button.. it takes practice and then you have to learn to balance the stamina..
   What im not happy with though is the ground game…
   its just not fun, it’s a game of stopping transitions and positioning yourself to be able to attempt a submission which takes you to a mini game of blocking escape attempts and flicking the left stick before your opponent to get to the next step of the submission, but there is thankfully a setting to turn it into a button mashing game, or a stand up only knock out mode if youre against ground game completely… but there is also submission only if you want to play around with the confusing mini game that is the ground game here…
   UFC 3 has promise with its attention to detail…
   but its stamina system needs balance that favors offensive and defensive players equally and a nice story mode wouldn’t hurt either.… Expand

   • 3 of 7 users found this helpful
5. ImAppalled2020

   Dec 27, 2019

   1

   In a word, appalling. Why are the options for tattoo choices only limited to generic designs and objectified images of women? Why not includeIn a word, appalling. Why are the options for tattoo choices only limited to generic designs and objectified images of women? Why not include designs that feature men being sexualised as well? So sexist, and so disappointing. UFC must stand for u **** c****.… Expand

   • 0 of 3 users found this helpful
6. muertefx

   Feb 2, 2018

   1

   It's not better than UFC2. Worst fighting system, worst submission system, very slow combos. Really hate leg kicks, they are awful and haveIt's not better than UFC2. Worst fighting system, worst submission system, very slow combos. Really hate leg kicks, they are awful and have really slow animation, so anyone can block it, it's not realistic, but we play in "simulator" hahaha.
   
   Practically stupid AI, even worse than before, blocking everything, do nothing, just blocking and staying, and again blocking every hit or transition on the ground, also it cancels all my moves, so its impossible to get up. Very funny. I can really just stay at one place and bot will do nothing. Played with real people = they do not block everytime and their reaction not so fast as bot have. Bot blocking everything just in moment, when I use leg kick = it uses block, simply like that, but hey, isn't it a simulator? Bot can't have so ridiculous reaction even on NORMAL. I am tired of broking my legs and loosing stamina in stupid Ultimate Team.
   
   How to get achievement for legend difficulty? Bot on legend with 15-20 lower stats comparing to me is killing me, read every my move, blocking everything and hitting me when I am opened with non-human reaction, wtf.
   
   And what about not letting them to take you on the ground? Okay, R2 + R simply not working, you have about 0.3 sec window to cancel his grappling shiet.
   
   Developers totally screwed up. Expecially when it's been said, that the campaign is much more now than before, well, it is a lie, we can't do anything in it except of doing some things in simplified training and hurting stupid bots. Also, we only get 3-4 secs of movies in UFC Minute, WE ARE NOT PART OF IT. Very smart of you (no). In the meantime, we got another UFC soulless and heartless campaign, you can't feel anything, just stupid bots, stupid movies.
   
   And again, what I really hate, a stupid lootboxes in Ultimate Team, the best mod of UFC in which everyone playing right now and will play in the future. A very low amount of techniques and perks that won't last long, wtf.
   
   I regret that I bought that trash.… Expand

   • 19 of 32 users found this helpful
7. xenomorf72

   Aug 8, 2018

   0

   I would rather perform in a real professional MMA fight, AND have a better chance of winning than with the completely untuitive controls EA isI would rather perform in a real professional MMA fight, AND have a better chance of winning than with the completely untuitive controls EA is offering here.… Expand

   • 0 of 0 users found this helpful
8. mostobjective

   Feb 11, 2018

   0

   Hnestly, this game is absolute non realistic nonsence. Funamental stand up mechanics is sways and ducks, every top fight incluse lots of ducksHnestly, this game is absolute non realistic nonsence. Funamental stand up mechanics is sways and ducks, every top fight incluse lots of ducks and hook counter. Which leads to many health events and you can easily land 5 or more KNOCKDOWNS to your opponent. WHAT A TRASH
   
   Also, long-term stamina is more important that long-term health. For example, you beat you opponent up for 4 rounds, land several near death knockdows and blow your stamina. Than you opponent can ko you with 1 shot in the fifth.
   
   Also, you really cant finish the fight if opponent knows how to play. Game doesnot allow you to finish. Its totally random. You can ko with 1 shot, you also can land 200 punches 8 knockdowns and oppoennt will be ok,
   
   New knockdowns system ruined the game. In UFC2 if you land, if you hurt opponent - he will fall and you can tko him, In ufc3 with 4 new nonsence knockdowns system your opponent will only fall and the get up. Yes you may proceed to ground, but even if its his 5 knockdowns, game doesnot undertand this in ground mechanicns, you cant rock him in the ground, he can easily hold block and recover. Does it makes sense? YOu land punches and opponent goes down to RECOVER.LOL
   
   Never buy this, they messed it up.
   
   1 out of 10. Game is broken.… Expand

   • 9 of 11 users found this helpful

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