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Amid Concerns Support for UFC Undisputed 3 to Continue – Or So Says THQ

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Posted June 23rd, 2012 at 2:00 pm

Though THQ has pledged that a patch – which has been in the works apparently for over four months now – is still going to arrive for UFC Undisputed 3 consumers have understandably grown skeptical. The UFC license has been transferred to EA Sports and the THQ studio which worked on the series has been closed. The company has not been reliable with their promises thus far leaving many to feel they have been, and still are, simply being strung along. 

Despite that THQ would have no reason at this point to lie about a patch, state that the servers would remain up for the foreseeable future, and even go as far as to solicit feedback for a fighter stat update. That is what they have been doing in the weeks following the announcement of the sale of the license. They would gain nothing by making these statements if they had no intention of  following through with them.

No one would have been surprised if communication had ceased completely leaving UFC 3′s fan base in the dark. Continuing that relationship has been an admirable move – though it has become frustrating in its own right as the patch still has yet to materialize.

No, THQ won’t have to answer for the unacceptable length of time it will have taken to get a much needed patch out, but the UFC in particular would be the party to push for continued support in this situation. An abandonment of support would reflect most poorly on them.

The UFC brand is the one that matters here and it was likely a stipulation of agreeing to the license transfer. Doing further damage to the current UFC video game consumer base is something they would insist on avoiding – leaving THQ to finish what they started even though they’ve all but stripped away completely any resources dedicated to the game.

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  • Crimson

    Nobody is expecting ANYTHING special from you THQ after that recent Lingerie Football game announcement. IMHO, your games have always seemed to lack the depth and continued support, that are often found with other publishers sports titles. The control layouts in your many varied wrestling games are often hard to master, and often unresponsive to any control or input, often leading to simply button mashing out of frustration. I have worn out many dualshock controllers playing your damn games before getting frustrated and trading the games in. For some reason, I still have UFC 2010. My son still likes to play it with me sometimes. Didn’t buy the newest one, and don’t plan on it. You had a good run THQ, but I think it’s time to admit that its probably over for you. Better thank god that you still have “Saints Row” in your stable, even though the new GTA will probably put that game to its untimely death too.

    • Ed

      Actually, they had a pretty good track record with wrestling games early on. Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy on the N64 are considered by many two of the best wrestling games ever. Even better than those two though are their Japanese counterparts, Virtual Pro Wrestling and Virtual Pro Wrestling II. Fantastic games surpassed only by the Firepro games and King of Colosseum II (also Japanese titles, if unfamiliar, that also had pretty good MMA modes). The WCW games (Revenge, World Tour and vs. The World) were also very good along with the Day of Reckoning titles on the Gamecube. I personally didn’t care too much for most of the Smackdown games although Here Comes the Pain and 2006 were pretty good. WWE ’12 has been good, especially once they got the Community Creations server under better control.

      • Crimson

        Of all the systems I’ve owned going way back, including the Turbografx16 and 3DO, I’ve never had another Nintendo system, not since my NES first hit the scene. Just not a Nintendo type of guy. I was a Sega man. After that, Sony ruled my life. Microsoft Xbox or Xbox360? Not in this house. But, as far as the THQ wrestling games, I am mainly speaking about this gen. I did own “Smackdown Just Bring It” on the PS2. Didn’t keep it that long. I owned WWE Allstars on PS3 for a hot minute too, but that game got old pretty quick. Too many caching issues, and lacking any varied game modes….I sold it. One of my favorite wrestling games was actually an EA BIG game, “Def Jam Vendetta”. Played that game a ton more than any THQ wrestling game I’ve ever owned.

        • Ed

          Oh ok, I see. To bad though, you missed some really great wrestling titles. As far as the Firepro games though, they were both on ps2 and the Dreamcast. The last Firepro, Firepro Wrestling Returns, was actually imported and translated into English. If your ps3 is backwards compatible or you still have your ps2 you may want to check it out. Roster of 327 wrestlers, most of them Japanese, with well over 1000 moves. Each wrestler even has very detailed logic so you can program exactly how they behave in a great variety of situations for watching CPU vs. CPU or simmed matches. There is also a fantastic community and they’ve created edits for the game from every era. Tons of different match types like deathmatches and MMA in both ring or an octagon type cage. Here’s a couple reviews:

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV4–QsQkxE&feature=relmfu

          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDXyveo5uk0

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