Want to get that man vs. man UFC goodness? Behold...
by Nick Doerr 
{ Jan 17th 2007 at 1:30PM }
THQ grabbed up the rights to an Ultimate Fighter's game. Expect blood and lots of rolling around on the ground. Also expect a yearly incarnation of the series as a game, a la wrestling, football, baseball... hell, every sports title, until the year 2011. THQ plans to load in a ton of online, multiplayer and downloadable content to the titles -- it would be neat to have real-time roster updates, possibly a ticker at the bottom of your screen indicating real UFC news whilst you fight with your character you create (if such an option will exist... that'd be sweet). Anyway, for all you UFC fans itching for a fight but don't want to bloody up those beautiful knuckles of your own, keep an eye out for a UFC game coming your way!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kspraydad @ Jan 17th 2007 2:30PM
I've been watching UFC this past year and enjoy it...the story of its owner and its rise is interesting.
I'm thinking that this is a game that would really benefit from rumble to 'experience' the game so I'm sad that that won't be available...
Looking forward to kicking Tito's ass.
Daniel @ Jan 18th 2007 3:00AM
That sounds good, I love my xbox 360 and cannot wait to also get the PS3 as I beleave that will be way better on graphics (well its got to be with a year later technlogy) what do you think as the PS3 is coming out a year later will it have a year later tech.
Rob Rawlins @ Jan 18th 2007 9:33AM
Daniel, you should probably have a read through this, it should quash any misconceptions you have about the graphics capability of the PS3.
http://uk.gamespot.com/features/6162742/index.html?tag=features;title;1
Makes for an interesting read.
Rob
Kspraydad @ Jan 18th 2007 10:29AM
@Rob...
I've been buying systems for close to 30 years now...
It ALWAYS takes 3+ years before you see the hardware being fully exploited on EVERY console (For instance, take a look at early Atari 2600 games vs. what they looked like at end of system life).
I would expect the PS3 to win out marginally over the 360 as time goes on but comparing games that are on both systems right now is a mugs game.
Rob Rawlins @ Jan 18th 2007 11:18AM
No sure I completely agree Kspraydad,
I just thought it would make an interesting read for Daniel who's clearly a man impressed by the visual aspects of games.
I spend the larger majority of my time playing through all the Lucas arts titles on my laptop, can’t beat a little monkey island. I think I’m more drawn into a strong narrative and well formed characters than high-def lighting effects and all that jazz.
You're right about the extended life cycle on a console before the developers manage to fully exploit the power of the hardware but that still leads to a few more issues even at that point.
In 3 years time the Xbox will be in the final stage of its life cycle and they'll already be prepping for the launch of their next console, so any eventual advantage the PS3 might have acquired at that point would be very short lived, and then we can rinse and repeat for the next generation of consoles.
With M$ being a software based company they also have plenty of avenues to 'fast track' that development curve for their developers, technology such as XNA will allow Xbox dev's to find their stride and advance to that top level of development at a much faster rate, which is something that Sony, as a hardware company is unable to offer its development community.
This leaves a potential issue for Sony, at the moment we are effectively seeing these first generation PS games compared against effectively the second generation of Xbox games, which is seemingly unfair.
You may be able to find an argument that Xbox will always be one generation ahead in the games development cycle for their console, but in effect the actual reality is likely to be even worse for Sony, as they're developers meet level two in their cycle, due to the aforementioned technologies Microsoft will not be on their 3rd generation, but their 4th gen development cycle.
However, I think that the old days of games being the key point in a console are slowly slipping away and we're now finding that consumers are keen to start widening that field of desire to encompass things like online community, with downloadable content, online gaming, on demand TV and the general concept of building communication networks which makes anything accessible at any time.
I think that in general this generation and even more so those to come will be focusing on these wider aspects of 'entertainment', and this is probably where the console's will really define the way which with think about gaming.
Rob