EA puts Fight Night on hold in favor of UFC
EA Sports head Andrew Wilson says the Fight Night team has been almost entirely redirected to work on UFC, after the company grabbed the rights from THQ in June of last year.
In the sports sub-genre of "men hitting each other," you might have noticed Fight Night Series has gone a bit quiet lately. EA Sports head Andrew Wilson says that's because the company has refocused that team towards its recent acquisition of the UFC rights.
"Right now, a great portion of the core of the Fight Night team are actually the team that are building UFC," Wilson told IGN. He added that the team has "an amazing understanding of the pugilistic arts" and they're "really dedicated and focused on UFC right now." Of course, UFC tends to involve a good deal more kicking than boxing.
So what fate lies in store for the sweet science? Wilson seems noncommittal. "Do I see a future for Fight Night? You know, sure. But right now, UFC is where our fighting focus is."
EA hasn't detailed its UFC game yet, but at Tuesday's Xbox One announcement, UFC was among the franchises represented when EA Sports took the stage. The company said next-gen EA Sports titles (including UFC) will use the new "Ignite" engine, which promises better AI and 3D crowds.
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EA Sports head Andrew Wilson says the Fight Night team has been almost entirely redirected to work on UFC, after the company grabbed the rights from THQ in June of last year.-
Does anyone know how the last Fight Night did sales wise? I thought the story based approach to career mode was the right direction.
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I bought it because the story mode looked cool, then I realized it is still a game where you punch a guy 500000 times until he falls down.
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the story mode sucked in certain ways (namely how it tried to add difficulty with cheap shit) but I thought in general they've done a really good job with a natural control scheme that lets you feel fairly close to real boxing at times
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yeah it's tough because on one hand it feels disingenuous to just press A to submit someone, it loses all the fun technicality that is involved in executing that move in reality. But then if you make each submission some absurd right stick gesture they're just impossible to remember/apply for most people.
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It wasn't really anywhere near as hard as doing precisely what you wanted in Skate though, I think I could teach it to anyone.
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yes, it's not rocket science, anyone could learn it given enough time and practice. That is the case for most games, but that's not really a sufficient justification for a high learning curve control scheme of ultimately most people aren't willing to put in that time and practice
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I had no problems with it
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I watch both boxing and MMA, but gotta say that I'm sad to see the FN series abandoned for the immediate future. I've had a lot of fun with it despite its faults. FN has always been one of the most graphically pleasing series on a console and I was looking forward to the next gen iteration of it.
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