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Despite the varying advantages of each fighting style, the styles themselves don't differ that greatly from each other once the match starts.

The career mode begins by creating a fighter and choosing one of the five fighting styles: kickboxer, boxer, wrestler, jiu-jitsu or balanced. Knocking out an opponent with a well-timed punch or kick to the head is the best way to win in terms of satisfaction. Even when an opponent does tap, the submission wins rarely feel satisfying. Like the grappling system, the ball seems to always be in the court of the defender, as it's far easier to get out of a submission than it is to make an opponent tap out.

Both of these submissions rely on a 'cat and mouse' mechanic where the attacker has to try and get their tile over the opponents - though the only difference between the different submission types is that chokes take place on a full-circle, whereas the joint submissions take place on a semi-circle. With submissions, there are two different types: joint or choke submissions. Playing on 'Hard' mode makes the opponent refute almost every single transition attempt.

For example, playing the game on 'Medium' makes the transitions easy to do with hardly any pushback from the opponent. Transitioning from one hold to the next is the tricky part - and it's the source of frustration for multiple reasons. Rather, if the fighter aims to win by submission, then continuously flicking the left stick into the direction of the 'submit' option will ultimately lead to a submission. Basically, there is no need to learn about which positions lead to specific mounts or holds for example. For example, once initiating the grappling on the ground, the left stick can be flicked in one of three directions that are displayed on-screen and marked as 'submit', 'ground and pound' or 'get up'. Rather than throw confusing technical terms out there, in UFC 4 the three options instead are labelled as the end result of that grappling chain. Taking the fight to the ground, the default mechanics is a simple grappling system, where the fighters can choose from three options.

#Ea sports ufc 4 ratings Offline#

Again, the in-game tutorial does an OK job of teaching the basic controls - though the offline career mode is where the bulk of the education comes into play. In terms of a straight-fighting game, the controls are easy enough to grasp - it starts to get trickier once the clinch and grapple controls come into the equation. Being a newcomer to the UFC series, the 'assist' controls are fine and easy to pick-up and learn - though the in-game tutorial does leave a lot to be desired and a lot of the help with figuring out the controls came from external sources. However, for those who have mastered the previous control scheme, 'legacy' controls do exist in the settings to revert back to a more comfortable control scheme, while a 'hybrid' scheme also exists for those who want to blend both schemes into the one. The major difference with UFC 4 and the previous titles is the new 'assist' control scheme that's designed to make it easier for newcomers to jump in and learn the controls.