[niniendowarrior]

Well, thought we could put a thread to list down info on EA's game since we do have a UFC Undisputed thread.

Roster so far (official and rumoured): UPDATED March, 2010.

Dan Henderson
Tyron Woodley
Bobby Lashley
Nick Diaz
Joe Riggs
Marius Zaromskis
Tim Kennedy
Melvin Manhoeff
Shinya Aoki
Hidehiko Yoshida
Cung Le
Gilbert Melendez
Robbie Lawler
Ronaldo Souza
Matt Lindland
Scott Smith
Josh Thomson
Nick Thompson
Brett Rogers
Jake Shields
Frank Shamrock
Fedor Emelianenko
Randy Couture
Renato Sobral
Gegard Mousasi
Muhammed Lawal
Jason Miller
Jay Hieron

(who knows? if these are real)
Tim Sylvia
Kevin Randleman
Frank Trigg

What do you guys think so far?

[LuckyD]

I likes...

Yeah it's good to have a thread on it so we can see how it progresses, or fails. It'll be interesting seeing who all will be exactly on it.

I hope it will be a good game with fantastic controls.

[seansloan]

I will admit to orginally thinking this was gonna be huge.Now I think they will have to make an incredible game that I doubt they can make to get over the WHO? factor.Randy Couture is the only selling point this game has and you would think that Dana would dissuade him from breaking his back promoting this thing.Only positive I can think of is that with the exception of Randy these guys are probably being paid peanuts,so EA doesnt need to sell a ton of copies to be successful

[niniendowarrior]

It's going to be tough for EA to keep the fighter line up consistent for every game iteration if each of them asks for a lot of money. Hopefully, EA has come with a solution for that. Randy Couture is the biggest name in there, no doubt. Maybe Fedor to a certain degree. Didn't I remember that fans chanted Fedor's name in a UFC ppv? That must count for something.

[LuckyD]

These guys would make for a damn card too:

EA-MMAFC: Video Game's anagural event.

MAIN EVENT- Fedor vs Randy
TOP BOUTS- Babalu vs King Mo
Shamrock vs Mayhem
Trigg vs Hieron

Not a bad lil card!

lol






Fedor Emelianenko
Randy Couture
Frank Shamrock
Jay Hieron
Gegard Mousasi
King Mo Lawal
Jason Mayhem Miller
Renato Babalu Sobral

(who knows? if these are real)
Tim Sylvia
Kevin Randleman
Frank Trigg

[niniendowarrior]

I wonder if EA would be better off signing off 'package' deals like guys from Xtreme Couture, guys from Team Quest, Miletich Fighting, etc. than signing solo fighters. I guess you cannot get around signing solo fighters for the big names, but I think it might be an interesting licensing scheme they could look into in the future.

[sportsgenius86]

Originally Posted by niniendowarrior

I wonder if EA would be better off signing off 'package' deals like guys from Xtreme Couture, guys from Team Quest, Miletich Fighting, etc. than signing solo fighters. I guess you cannot get around signing solo fighters for the big names, but I think it might be an interesting licensing scheme they could look into in the future.

I don't think anyone has any official ties to a gym for them to be able to do something like this though.

If it happened, it would just be a series of individual contracts rather than a group one.

[niniendowarrior]

I was just thinking of how the IFL did things before with their camps and stuff...

[niniendowarrior]

EA MMA trailer.

http://www.pastapadre.com/2009/11/07/trailer-for-ea-mma

[LuckyD]

I'm interested in seeing how the "career" mode will be in this game, as Coker said recently that Strikeforce is the "premier level" of the game, so it would be really f'n cool to build up an unknown, from smaller shows to the big events.

If gameplay is better than Undisputed and they get a LOT more fighters (hell raid DREAM, Sengoku, all of Shooto, MTC, hell KOTC I don't care)... I'll get this game rather than the UFC one.