brides?

Only the PS3 has the POWER to render octagons.

Four corners was so last gen.

I would love to see someone design an mma game modeled similarly to the fight night mechanics, with of course the addition of kicks and shoots.

As for the submission system, I've tried some of the previous games before and though highly technical, i think they are bit too complicated for average gamers. Perhaps if they had something similar to naruto's fighting game where each player enters button combos as fast and accurately as they can (but maybe using the analog sticks instead), that would maintain the feel of submissions, who knows.

I would have to be convinced very hard that a good UFC game could be made. Stand-up fighting is very easily modeled by button-tapping, but good submissions that don't quickly wear out your thumbs would be very dificult. Maybe it would work on Wii if, when the combattants went to the ground, it would switch to a pointer mode or something where you would try and "drag" each other into positions or something.

UFC is awsome though.. if the mechanics were right it would definitely be awsome to take on Ortiz, Lidell, Couture etc.

ufc is turning into the new wwe...gross

sounds great, i love playing the ufc games.
maybe this go round they could have some sort of story line as in you make money to fix up your house, buy rides and the like. then also have little training games like the fight night series to build up stanima, charisma, speed, durability. the charisma could be to help out in getting out of holds sort of like the wwe games.

it would be great if the team that made the fight night round 3 (xbox 360 version) could make it. could you imagine the graphics, and the create a fighter on that.

and no the 360 can render the corners..
it will suck reguardless with the crap controllers on the ps3.... dont care anyways no way im paying the rediculious price of the ps3, not in any way worth the price.

I dug the Dreamcast game, but the sequels quickly became old. Nothing new was offered outside of "more" of everything.

The Pride game was nice as it took the UFC game and added more strategic elements (being able to stomp while someone is down, etc). The presentation was a lot better too, just like in real life comparing Pride and UFC. Was still nothing revolutionary though.

"ufc is turning into the new wwe...gross"

That makes, oh, no sense at all. That's like saying boxing and WWE are the same, or any competitive one-on-one sport.

What's with using a candle as this story's picture?

I'm involved with Pankration (Greek mixed martial arts) and my secret prayers of playing UFC on the Wii would totally be answered if THQ can make a decent version!

The first game on Dreamcast was a great start but not a great game. It was cool to finally have an MMA game but the gameplay system was shallow and hasn't been significantly improved in 5-6 years.

Hopefully they can just start from scratch and pull in some aspects from more refined games (sounds like MMA). The K-1 game is good for kickboxing and Fight Night of course. There is a judo game being released soon which will hopefully have a good grappling system (http://www.daviddouilletjudo-lejeu.com) and a little bit could be taken from pro-wrestling games. I just hope they can make grappling system that is technical and engaging instead of just button mashing.

I have always hoped that there would be a UFC game for PS3. If the game was made correctly it would be great, but a game with all the different varriables that are in UFC would be hard to develope. It's not like a boxing game where there are jus different types of punches to throw like in fight night round 3. Although something similar to that would rock my socks off and it would be addicting. Developing your own fighter, or having the ability to go back to UFC 1 fight rules, having a training aspect to the game to increase stats, unlocking special moves and fighters, like gracie, or Abbot. A slow motion mode or replay, starting rivalries, secret codes to flip off or moon your opponent. I could go on and on, but I see it either being the coolest thing in the world or the worst thing in the world. Old wrestling and ufc games have bombed big time. I really hope some time and money goes into making a quality game.