If you want to take things online, you can. Training in gyms in between fights was a great way to prepare my fighter for upcoming rivals as well as improve on all the fighting styles, which include boxing, wrestling, and Brazilian jiu-jitsu. Adding to the features, a new in-game social media system now allows the player to create heated rivalries with other UFC athletes. In the career mode, players will have the opportunity to make career choices that will impact their path to greatness. Outside of fights, players can make promotional choices to build hype, gain fans, earn more cash through big contracts and capture the world’s attention. Moving away from combat, new to the series is the “G.O.A.T.” career mode. You can quite literally throw 3 to 4 strikes, take your opponent to the ground, position up, and finish them off with a ground and pound every single match. If things get too much, you can change the difficulty level however, the game’s easy mode is just too easy. There is an option to button mash your way out of holds however, this just feels a bit too simple. The “mini-games” used to get out of these situations need to either be improved up drastically or completely overhauled, much like the stand-up mechanics. Once taken down to the ground, this begins to become slightly frustrating as you never entirely know what actually happened when you lose a position or are quickly placed into a submission that, with all your efforts, fail to reverse or escape. While UFC 3 has seen a vast improvement to its stand-up gameplay, it would have been great to see the same amount of work put in the ground-game mechanics.

In addition to this, stamina plays a role when defending against attacks both when in a stand-up position as well as when you are taken to the ground. Once your stamina has drained, your fighter will make little to no progress in a fight as their strikes will barely do damage. With the striking and movement mechanics being overhauled, players will now need to keep a careful eye on their character’s stamina gauge, which ultimately drains quicker as the new overhaul gives you an opportunity to throw multiple strikes and combos at a quicker pace – thus, draining your stamina faster.

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