Man, finally a Community Review for a game that I’ve actually played! It’s been a while coming…
UFC Undisputed tried to come back too soon. Following a breakout season in 2009, it returned with a good-but-not-great sequel in 2010. Publisher THQ recognised the franchise didn’t deliver enough and shifted it to two-year production cycle. So is UFC Undisputed 3 the game mixed martial arts fans should have gotten last May? Or is it a title that can last them another two years?
Kotaku reader Ruffleberg and I are pretty big UFC/MMA fans, and after watching Alastair Overeem vs Brock Lesnar at UFC 141 we both started wondering about UFC Undisputed 3 and, specifically, the game’s singleplayer mode. The game is so close to release, but we still don’t know much about it — what gives?
I like UFC. I like watching men beat each other up. I can’t help it. I also think the UFC Undisputed series does a great job of representing the sport’s multiple disciplines in an efficient, well rounded way. The fight I’m currently most excited about is Brock Lesner vs Alastair Overeem — a match which pits a world class wrestler against one of the best heavyweight strikers in the world. Now the developers at Yuke’s have created a simulation of the fight — the outcome? It’s almost too close to call…
Develop magazine has released the 2010 Develop 100, an annual listing of the most successful game developers in the industry. Who took the number one slot this year? I’ll give you a hint: Nintendo.
When Yuke’s Company of America releases screenshots, they release a hell of a lot of screenshots. They’ve unleashed so many screens for their upcoming top-down space adventure game Evasive Space for WiiWare that we’ve had to split them into two different galleries, one containing shots from Act 1 of the game, and another containing shots from Act 2. Enough screenshots that you could probably just print them out and play through both levels, flipbook style. Either they are extremely proud of High Voltage Software’s work on the title, or someone in the screenshot department has an itchy capture finger. Check out Act 1 before the jump, and Act 2 comes tumbling after.
The screenshots I posted earlier this month of Yuke’s Double D Dodgeball for Xbox Live Arcade did not do the game justice. Now they’ve released a trailer form the title, giving us a much better feel for what’s going on in the game. It looks like a total blast, with relatively simple graphics augmented by XBLA’s trademark glowy lighting effects. And hey, it supports the Xbox Live Camera!
As revealed at the end of the trailer, Double D Dodgeball is coming to Xbox Live July 30th.
