UFC 2009 Undisputed: Blood and more, Career mode details

Published on: 9th April, 2009

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I know I have been posting a lot of information about the upcoming UFC 2009 Undisputed video game, so here is some more new information from one of the games directors. I will make it short and sweet because there is a lot of new information for fans of the upcoming game.

ESPN.com caught up to a producer of the game Neven Dravinski on some new details, an interesting one was blood.

I am using Wanderlei

“That’s a big thing for us because the UFC’s tagline is “As real as it gets.” So that’s our unofficial motto here. For each of these fighter models we take three-dimensional scanning and photographs of them, and each model goes through multiple stages of bruising and swelling and cuts and bleeding. We want to immerse you in the world without showing you a stamina bar. You’ll know how your fighter is doing based on how he looks in the game. You start throwing elbows at a guy’s face and it will open him up. The blood will spill on the mat. We’re not openly gratuitous, when you pull an arm bar, you’re not going to pop the bone out of his arm, but if I start kicking you in the legs, you’ll see multiple levels of bruising and swelling. Guys will get punched in the eye and there might be multiple cuts. On top of that, the animations in the game change themselves, so if you get tired or you exert yourself too much, your hands will drop, you’ll be breathing heavier, your movements won’t be as fluid or as quick, so there are a lot of nuances that we try to replicate to show your fighter’s status.”

He also confirmed that you will be able to take your created character online after building him up in career mode.

“In career mode, you’re basically working your way up through the system of UFC. So, you’re going to create your character, you’ll assign yourself a striking and grappling technique, then you train those skills. You won’t have as much power, energy or ability as the typical UFC fighter when you start out, but as you progress through career you’ll get better. And we don’t have any cheesy mini-games where you mash the buttons to push a weight bar up. The training you do in the career mode is fighting like you would in a real fight. So if you have a fight coming up, and you’re a boxing/wrestler guy and you’re next opponent is a Muay Thai guy, then your training partner will be a Muay Thai fighter, so you can train against those moves. There’s a whole interactive calendar system where you know your fight is in a couple of weeks and you’ll need to pick where you’ll train, where you’ll spar and where you should rest in order to build up your stamina. It’s like a game within the game where you might want to risk training right before a fight, losing out on some of your stamina, but at the same time gaining valuable points on your standing game. The choices are all up to you on how you shape your career. And once you start building up his skill, you can take your created fighter online, so it’s a cool way to get invested in your character and his abilities. It also lets you replay the game multiple ways because you can start one career as a boxer/wrestler, then when that career is done, you can play as a fighter who is into kickboxing and judo and have a completely different experience”.

There you go this game is going to be awesome I cannot wait to review the final game and fighting with some of you on XBox Live.

 Alberto Martinez "The Narcisist" is the founding owner of URDirt.com. If you would like to post on the front page or in our New "Fan Jab" section all you need to do is register. Read more from this author

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