UFC (video Game)

''Ultimate Fighting Championship'' is the first video game based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts tournament. It was first developed by Anchor Inc. for the Sega Dreamcast on August 29, 2000, then by Opus for the Sony PlayStation on November 13 the same year, and finally by Fluid Studios for the Game Boy Color on November 27 the same year. All three versions of the game were published by Crave Entertainment in North America, while Ubi Soft published the three versions in Europe and Capcom publishing the PlayStation and Dreamcast versions in Japan.

Fighters

* Mikey Burnett
* Mark Coleman
* Gary Goodridge
* Jeremy Horn
* Matt Hughes
* Eugene Jackson
* Tsuyoshi Kosaka
* Tim Lajcik
* Chuck Liddell
* Guy Mezger
* Pat Miletich
* Tito Ortiz
* Kevin Randleman
* Marco Ruas
* Bas Rutten
* Pedro Rizzo
* Andre Roberts
* Frank Shamrock
* Maurice Smith
* Evan Tanner
* Ron Waterman
* Pete Williams

Reception

The Dreamcast version received "generally favorable reviews", just two points shy of "universal acclaim", while the PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Dan Morris of '' NextGen'' said of the former console version in its October 2000 issue, "No-holds-barred fighting gets a world-class Dreamcast translation, with gameplay that's both lifelike and exciting." Five issues later, however, Daniel Erickson said in his review of the latter console version, "If ''Ultimate Fighting Championship'' had first appeared on PlayStation, we might have been more impressed with its originality and more likely to overlook some of its glaring flaws. After the excellent Dreamcast version, however, all we can see is how much worse this PlayStation outing is." ''Edge'', however, gave the former console version four out of ten, saying, "Lacking in the humour of WWF's absurd pantomime, Crave's title occupies an alien middle ground that can be difficult to digest, and even with its supposed plethora of moves, it's hard to develop any attachment. While it's obvious why shortsighted codeshops will never go wrong appealing to the lowest common denominator, you have to wonder whether titles based on moral ground as shaky as this are actually worthy of featuring anything innovative anyway." In Japan, where both the Dreamcast and PlayStation versions were ported and published by Capcom on January 25, 2001, ''Famitsu'' gave it a score of 32 out of 40 for the former console version, and 24 out of 40 for the latter one.

The Dreamcast version was a runner-up for ''GameSpot''s annual "Best Dreamcast Game" and "Best Sports Game (Alternative)" awards, both of which went to ''NFL 2K1'' and ''Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2''. Conversely, the PlayStation version was nominated in the "Most Disappointing Game" and "Worst Game" categories among console titles; the staff dubbed it "a pixellated, stiffly playing abomination." The Dreamcast version was a finalist for the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences' 2000 "Console Fighting Game of the Year" award, which went to '' Dead or Alive 2''.

See also

*List of fighting games

Notes

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