Product Description

Undisputed is an explosive fighting game detailing the action, intensity and attitude of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Featuring an authentic and comprehensive UFC atmosphere, including an extensive roster of the best mixed martial arts fighters in

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #691 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: THQ
• Released on: 2009-05-22
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Format: Unknown format
• Dimensions: .26 pounds

Product Features
AUTHENTIC UFC PERSONALITIES – Explore a deep roster of more than 80 top names in UFC competition across five weight classes and enter the Octagon surrounded by the sport’s popular commentators, announcers, referees, trainers, Octagon girls and more.

PHOTOREALISTIC MODELS AND EFFECTS – Experience the world of UFC as it appears on television with photorealistic fighters who breathe, sweat and move like their real-life counterparts. Players will also view amazing ripple effects across the faces and bodies of their fighters from the impact of devastating punches and kicks.

CONSTANT CONTROL – Gain the upper hand in matchups with a brand new fighting game engine designed specifically for next generation systems. Emphasis on innovative, responsive and easy-to-play controls will give players unparalleled command of their fighters in the Octagon.

FIGHTING DISCIPLINES – Take down opponents and get the submission with a variety of mixed martial arts disciplines, including Judo, Muay Thai, Wrestling, Kickboxing, Boxing and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

CREATE-A-FIGHTER – Jumpstart the career of a future champion by customizing your fighter’s physical appearance, learning new fighting techniques to use in the Octagon and managing the training process through attributes such as strength and cardiovascular health.

CAREER MODE – Develop attributes, perfect moves and fight for entry into the UFC Hall of Fame through a series of dynamic storylines that build friendships and instigate intense rivalries.

Manufacturer's Description
UFC 2009 Undisputed is an explosive fighting game detailing the action, intensity and attitude of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Featuring an authentic and comprehensive UFC atmosphere, including an extensive roster of the best mixed martial arts fighters in the world, players will push the envelope with a powerful new game engine and put their best fighting disciplines to the test in the world famous Octagon. Take your best shot – UFC 2009 Undisputed is as real as it gets!

Customer Reviews

If you're not a UFC fan now, you will be after this game!
This is not on the demo, I was lucky enough to recieve my copy last night and how lucky I was.

Firstly, I was not a UFC fan before this game, no scratch that, before the demo. It offers a rare insight into one of the worlds fastest growing sports. Whether that insight is watching two men punch each other until they collapse in the infamous 'Octagon' or whether thats watching how they men prepare for a fight in one of the game-type option, 'Classic Match'.

Overall opinion is pretty much flawless. This game is amazing, hopefully it isn't overlooked for any awards and deserves being top of the charts for many pre-ordering websites/shops. Lets get the negative out of the way, and believe me it is a very small picky negative coming from someone who has followed this game for a long time. Up-close punches/kicks are different from 'striking distance' punches or kicks. When you are upclose they turn into elbows, or knees! This is not the flaw, this is realistic and a great touch. The problem arises when the opponent backs off slightly and is inbetween the two, close-up and striking distance, and you throw an elbow as default when you press 'punch' which is useless and doesnt reach them, thus leaving you open for attack. There, it is off my chest, thats it!

Positives; and believe me there are a lot. Graphics are amazing, seriously. Player bruises and cuts become apparent over time, or if it is a seriously hard hitting punch it swells up quickly. Bruises on the body are apparent and blood on the octagon floor is also obvious when your pummelling a guys head in. Sound is great, the crowd noise rises if you are on the attack, or boos if the fight isnt to their taste. Commentators are accurate and informative. Relating fighters currently in the Octagon to previous famous fights, i.e. Forrest Griffin beating Shogun Rue (on the demo) by submission.

Career mode is fantastic. You can choose anything from what your figher looks like to how they fight, what sponsors you take on and what photo-shoots you do. However much 'cred' (needed to fight bigger opponents and get sponsors) these things give you, you need to be careful. A photoshoot before a big fight wastes a week when you could be training on an important part of your fight, i.e. speed. This happened to me before a fight against chuck liddell and it cost me the fight because my speed was good enough to counter his strength. Sparring is an option which puts you up against an opponent like the one you will face in your next bout. This is a nice touch and gives you an insight as to what to look out for.

The opening sequence is fantastic, showing you special moves in the game with a brilliantly chosen soundtrack.

This review does not do it justice however and you must buy the game to realise what a hit this is and hopefully it is the beginning of a bright series of UFC games.

Good luck in the Octagon.

Finally a game that does justice to the world of MMA
It should be noted that this is a review based off the demo made available for 360 owners, and as such this is a review purely of the gameplay, and not of the various game-modes that will be available in the retail release.

The demo showcases two behemoths of the Light Heavyweight Division in the form of Chuck 'The Iceman' Liddell and Mauricio 'Shogun' Rua, legends for their fights in America and Japan respectively, pitting them against each other following on from their exciting bout at UFC 97. In terms of the presentation of the game, it becomes evident immediately that the makers wanted to replicate the atmosphere of the UFC as close as possible, and it shows in the polish. Everything from the pre-fight tale of the tape to the commentary throughout is down to a tee. Every character from the ring announcer to the girls at ringside recreates the product itself. The graphics are top-notch, with the fighters looking identical to their real-life counterparts. During the fight their faces are scratched and bruised, even bloodied up, and such damage is truly evident in the post-fight visuals. Every little detail from the cornermen cleaning up the fighters between rounds to mouthguards going flying after a spectacular KO is included. Even commentator Mike Goldberg can be heard mis-calling jabs and straights as hooks on occasion, although one wonders whether such attention to detail was intentional!

Of course, the gameplay is always going to be the most important factor in any game based off the sport of MMA, and it does not disappoint here. There are 6 fighting styles in total, with each fighter possessing one stand-up style (Boxing, Kickboxing or Muay Thai) and one ground-style (Wrestling, Judo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu). Each style carries with it its own strengths and weaknesses - a wrestler might be able to take the fight to the ground easily, for instance, but once down there, even in top position he is liable to be submitted to a competitor skilled in BJJ. The gameplay is both complex and rewarding - this is certainly one game where button-mashing will not take you very far. Once you have taken down the opponent (assuming their sprawl doesn't cut you short), with flicks of the right analogue stick you can pull of a variety of transitions. At every stage the opponent can block and counter, meaning that the battles on the ground really will fall under the 'game of human chess' cliche. Even the stand-up section of the game is deceptively deep - the fighters' selection of strikes may seem generic at first, but a glance at the list of actions available from the Pause Menu reveals dozens if not hundreds of combos possible. Signature moves, such as Chuck's spinning back-fist or Shogun's devestating knees from the clinch add a sense of style to the stand-up. One aspect that really clinches the deal in terms of gameplay is that the fight really can end at any second. Leave your hands down for a moment and you risk gettig knocked out by anything from a high-kick to a flying knee, even if you've been dominating for 2 and a half rounds up to that point.

Such is the variety that even with only these 2 fighters in the demo I have already experienced a multitude of spectacular endings - from being caught with a knee as I lunged in for a double-legged takedown, to submitting the CPU with a flash triangle choke after being on my back, ground-and-pounded with seemingly no escape for the better part of the in-game 5 minutes.

Sure there are some things that could have been improved - there never seems to be a frantic scramble at a pace which we often see in the octagon, for instance, and sure it remains to be seen whether the fight-styles are indeed balanced (online play will be the true test of this), but ultimately this looks set to be the definitive videogame for MMA purists for the near future, or at the very least until the next installment of the series.

Frustrating and a little repetitive
You can't beat a good fighting game and after playing a free demo of UFC Undisputed, it seemed like great fun and a must for all fans of UFC.

The graphics are amazing and the animation of the fighters truly astounding. And you can't beat having a throwdown in the ring with your mate.

However after a few days of solid fighting, I have to say its getting a little repetitive. Every fight seems to go the same way; KO. I've rarely been the full three rounds and never managed to get a submission and the how-to guide is pitifully brief and lacks depth. Fighting from the ground is a pain, if an opponent gets you down its difficult to get back up, and again; the guide is hardly helpful.

Career mode frustrates me also. There are only six disciplines and there doesn't seem to be much too variety with any of them. I've found with many fighting games that allow you to build your own fighter, its difficult to get good enough, quickly enough. You have time between fights to spar and train and add points to your skills, but by the time I'm ten fights in, my average fighter is up against main event fighters and I am quickly dispatched. I'm fighting one brazilian fighter and no matter what I do, he takes me to the mat and its game over inside round one every time.

Overall its a fun game with truly amazing graphics, but sadly lacks the depth required of mixed martial arts. If you can pick it up cheap, its worth a few quid to have an enjoyable punch up, but I'm left feeling a little underwhelmed.