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After many screen­shots and debates about this game being bet­ter than UFC Undis­puted I was begin­ning to think EA would never show us any game­play footage till the last minute. EA chose to show­case com­bat­ants from this past weekend’s Strike­force card. King Mo, Mousasi ‚Hendo,Shields and El Nino all made appear­ances in this game­play trailer. So far the pre­sen­ta­tion looks good, but will it be able to K.O  the UFC offer­ing? We’ll find out this fall

A few days ago I posted a new trailer for UFC Undis­puted which focused on BJ Penn, but also showed improved game play mechan­ics. We saw that THQ went back to the lab and rebuilt UFC Undis­puted into some­thing new and fresh for 2010. While on paper it looks like THQ has the supe­rior title,  EA Sports is ready to prove that even though they are late to the fight, they have some­thing bet­ter to offer. From what I see on the trailer, the char­ac­ter mod­els look accu­rate and move real­is­ti­cally, but looks are a non-factor if the game play is shit. EA seems to have bor­rowed a few things from the Fight Night fran­chise. I really hope the game proves wor­thy of com­pet­ing with the UFC offer­ing, sim­ply because com­pe­ti­tion leads to inno­va­tion. You decide if it’s a wor­thy challenger.

Trailer Credit:Joys­tiq

Last week, I shared with you some footage of Fedor vs Rogers 360 on Show­time. This past Sat­ur­day, M1 Global and Strike­force pre­sented Fedor vs. Rogers on Sat­ur­day Night Fights. While this card had a lot of hype going in, I’ll be the first to admit that I expected most of the fights to be for­mu­laic in terms of the right guys win­ning and the card lack­ing   any drama. I’ll start off by say­ing that all the fights on the card delivered.

I am going to go fight by fight shar­ing my thoughts.

HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT — Anto­nio Silva (13–1) vs. Fabri­cio Wer­dum (12–4-1): Werdum-Decision

Excit­ing heavy­weight bout that showed a wealth of tal­ent with plenty of action. I expected Silva to come away with the vic­tory but Wer­dum (pro­nounced Ver-Doom) showed great cage aware­ness as well as great scram­bles and solid stand-up to defend against the larger opponent.

LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT BOUT — Gegard Mousasi (26–2-1) vs. Rameau Thierry Sok­oud­jou (7–4): Mousasi-TKO 2nd Round

HEAVYWEIGHT TITLE BOUT: Fedor Emelia­nenko (31–1-1nc) vs. Brett Rogers (10–0): Fedor-TKO 2nd Round
 

Fedor and Rogers were fight­ing for the WAMMA Heavy­weight Title instead of the Strike­force title which is cur­rently held by Alas­tair Overeem. Rogers came into this fight as the under­dog, but boy did he promptly intro­duce him­self with a swift jab to Fedor’s face which may or may not have bro­ken his nose. Rogers showed zero fear in tak­ing the fight to Fedor, at one point secur­ing the mount and pum­mel­ing Fedor in the first round. Fedor has not seen a sec­ond round in years but seemed unfazed as the round started. Sadly, like I said last week, Rogers made a mis­take and was hit with a huge right that put him to sleep.

I must say Rogers got a lot fur­ther than I gave him credit for and had a decent chance. Fedor is a great strate­gist and knows to wait for his oppo­nent to make a mis­take. Rogers will see Fedor again since I am sure Fedor enjoyed the competition.

In clos­ing I’d like to com­mend Strike­force for a great card, but you guys need to get rid of Gus John­son because he sucks.

EA treated us to some footage of EA Sports MMA which showed not only what the game looks like but the main event we were about to see. While the footage was wel­come, the fight­ers didn’t look as real­is­tic as the ones in UFC Undis­puted 2009. Given that it was a just a trailer, I am sure EA will tighten up the graphics.

I am not sure I’d buy the EA game given how they gave the UFC a hard time when their game needed to be pub­lished but that may change if the game is good and has a good roster.Have a look for yourselves

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