WMMA 3 does a better job of utilizing a fighter’s strengths and weaknesses, making upsets much more common and forcing you to make good booking choices. In WMMA 2 a star would beat a tomato can 99% of the time. Add in the random “destiny” stat variable and you could (in theory) play this game forever and always find something different and unexpected.Īs I mentioned above, the database has been rebalanced and every fighter feels useful. This simulates real life pretty well since the more you watch a guy fight the more you get to know about his style and skills. A guy might seem like a future star after 4 fights because he has absolutely dominated weak opposition, but 10 fights later you realize he is just a journeyman or gatekeeper who happened to have had a good streak of bouts. The way it works is that the more fights a fighter has under his belt the better and more accurate the scouting report becomes. The introduction of Fog of War means that it is harder to get accurate scouting reports on young talents. One of the major complaints about WMMA 2 was that it was too easy to separate the good fighters from the bad fighters and it was too easy to create a mega-star by putting him in the cage with tomato cans (bad fighters). All the changes have made the database better since it is better balanced and every fighter in it feels useful.
There is a total of 1,100 fighters, around 300 more than in WMMA 2 and many of the returning characters have seen drastic changes, like former 0-0 prospect Spencer Rubenstein who is now an established fighter in GAMMA (their Light Heavyweight Champion as a matter of fact) while other veterans (like Chuck Dooley) are now prospects. The database is set in 1998, one year earlier than WMMA 2 and features one new promotion set in Brazil. If, like me, you are a fan of the fake universe, be prepared to see some major changes. If you don’t like the fake fighters and universe, the game is highly customizable with mods. The Global Association of Mixed Martial Arts (or GAMMA) is a close approximation to the UFC, Xtreme Cage Combat (XCC) is a very close approximation to WEC and so on. Their heavyweight champion is Hazzan Fezzik, the most dominant MMA fighter in the world who specializes in Sambo and thus, can be compared to Fedor Emelianenko. For example, Japan’s #1 promotion is ALPHA-1 and it is as close to PRIDE as possible, complete with one 10-minute and two 5-minute rounds for fights (extended to 6 rounds for title bouts), battles that take place in the ring and judges that evaluate the whole fight instead of a round to round basis. The game’s default database is a fictional universe set in the Cornellverse (the same universe as the Total Extreme Wrestling games) that features fake fighters and companies that have some similarities to real life promotions.
WMMA 3 MIDS SIMULATOR
After playing it non-stop for the past week and a half I have to say one thing: WMMA 3 blows its predecessors out of the water in every area and it’s a must buy for text-based game fans or MMA fans.įor starters, WMMA 3 is a text-based simulator developed by Adam Ryland, the creator of the Extreme Warfare, Total Extreme Wrestling and Wrestling Spirit series.
World of Mixed Martial Arts 2 is one of my all-time favorite games, so I was very excited to get my hands on the sequel.
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