Published by Electronic Arts Inc.

Development Studio: EA Vancouver

Number of online players: 1-2

Number of offline players: 1-2

Product description

EA EA SPORTS™ UFC® 5 is as close to reality as it gets. Thanks to the advanced rendering capabilities of the Frostbite™ engine, you can enjoy unrivalled likenesses of your favourite fighters and fighters, complemented by enhanced environmental fidelity, making their entrance into the Octagon worthwhile. An all-new authentic strike system will bring realistic intensity and strategy to combat as punches and kicks can affect mobility, ability to defend or stamina. If you take too many hits, the doctor can end the fight. For ground fighting enthusiasts, we have new transition-based submissions that make wrestling more fluid and realistic than ever before. And if you like to admire your performance, new cinematic knockout replays capture your final action in all its glory. UFC 5 gets new content every month for Fight Week events, features and challenges based on real UFC action. And alter egos offer new versions of your favorite fighters and fighters every month. Bring home the next evolution of fighting games in the form of UFC 5.

Standard Edition

Pre-order* EA SPORTS™ UFC® 5 Standard Edition and get:

• 2 alter egos (Alexander Volkanovski, Valentina Shevchenko)
• 30th Anniversary set (four additional items)
• Career online XP vouchers (5×)
• Muhammad Ali

Real Strike System

What is fighting in MMA about? It's about what's at stake, technique, drama and the pure reality of each moment. UFC 5 captures exactly that in more authentic detail than ever before. It achieves this with next-generation graphical enhancements that add realism to the game's animations, a wounding system that combines the brutality and strategic nature of combat, and game system updates that make the action even smoother and more true to life.

Authentic Damage

Wounds, bruises, and swelling are created in precise locations based on the damage you inflict on your opponent or yourself in-game. A fighter can suffer more than 64,000 different facial injuries. All injuries are rendered in the most detailed way yet, and they truly affect the character's abilities. For example, if you inflict a laceration on an opponent's eyebrow, the blood that flows will affect their vision, allowing you to attack them more intensely as they can't see the incoming blows. A punch to the nose will make it harder for your opponent to breathe and slow down their stamina recovery.
If you land too many kicks to the calf, your character will start to limp and its mobility will be reduced. Authentic damage adds a whole new level of strategic options to combat.

Medical Examination and Combat Interrupt

Authentic damage adds authentic consequences. If a player suffers a significant injury, such as a broken nose or swollen eye, the referee can step in, stop the fight and have a ringside physician perform an examination. If the player is unable to change tactics and protect the injured body part from further blows, the doctor, like in the real Octagon, can stop the fight. This gives players more strategic opportunities to
to succeed or lose matches.

NEW REACTIONS TO STRIKES AND INTERVENTIONS

The progress in this area is significant. UFC 5 brings all-new animations for crushing elbow strikes, attacks
from spins and many more punches or kicks with fists, feet, knees and elbows. In addition, spectacular new animations replicate the fighting style of the best professional kickboxers, giving you new ways to fight and throw punches. In addition, new animations and reaction physics ensure that you literally feel the effect of every clean hit.

PULL SUBMISSION

The new smooth submissions feature is a redesigned extension of the existing lever and ground choke system with faster animations and no minigames. Beginners can take advantage of the ground combat assist system, while seasoned veterans can explore the wide range of options available. The new submissions run more smoothly and overall the ground combat is more authentic to deliver satisfying moments for the fighter who gives leverage or chokes.

ENGINE FROSTBITE

For the first time ever, the EA SPORTS UFC series will run on the Frostbite™ engine, which delivers unparalleled graphical enhancements for console games. Whether it's dynamic lighting, redesigned true-to-life character rendering, realistic hair strands or clothing animations, Frostbite serves up the action in the Octagon almost as if it were real.

FILM OPPOSITE KNOCKOUTS

The major improvements to the UFC's visuals are best seen in the all-new and innovative cinematic replays of K.O. Thanks to the power of the Frotsbite engine, players can now retrace their decisive strikes in stunningly lifelike detail. Thanks to highly slow-motion recording
camera and cinematic-level lighting, footage of match-ending strikes looks much more authentic and aesthetically pleasing. The flowing blood and bruised flesh turns a devastating knockout into a work of art.

FIGHTER'S EXCITEMENT

Thanks to the Frostbite engine and significant lighting and rendering enhancements that include things like skin and eye shading, hair strands, updated fighter somatotypes, and cutting-edge facial grimace animations, famous and popular fighters look as good as they ever have before.

VISUAL EFFECTS

It's all about the punch effect. Thanks to improved fidelity, every punch you land will now show up on a fighter's face or body in a completely authentic form that will cause you to grimace in pain. Plus, thanks to new fluid and particle physics systems, blood and sweat splatter just like in real fights in the Octagon.

AUTHENTIC MATCH ENDINGS

From newly added draws in both offline and online fights to realistic improvements in the ways a referee can stop a fight to keep a fighter on the ground from further harm, UFC 5 offers more numerous and authentic ways to end fights.

NEW GAME CINEMATIC SCENES

Characteristic ring approaches, breathtaking knockouts and everything that goes with it. Frostbite offers new cinematic moments that make you feel like you're in a sold-out arena thanks to the level of detail and fidelity of the fighters' appearances. From the roaring crowd to Bruce Buffer's iconic introductions, the game's revamped cinematics bring a whole new level of excitement, authenticity and immersion to UFC 5.

GAME MODES

FIGHT WEEK

UFC 5 offers a significantly richer experience for UFC fans, and there is no better example than the all-new challenges, features and content within Fight Week events, where in-game content is connected to real UFC events in a way never before seen.

Fight Week Challenges

In the week leading up to and after the upcoming big UFC event, players will have access
to limited-time weekly challenges. At these challenges, they can unlock event-themed rewards including new Alter Egos, fictional fighter created items, profile customization elements, and fighter emotes.

Fight Picks

Before real UFC fights, players can now pick the results of the main event of each PPV. Players are automatically matched to individual Fight Picks based on their picks, and custom leaderboards for friends are also available. After the event, the top-ranked players will receive UFC Coins.

Fight Week Contracts

Through Fight Week Contracts, players can earn daily deals
to matches against AI opponents with preset gameplay parameters. They can earn in-game currency for participating and winning, with the difficulty of the contracts increasing throughout the week. A summary of victories, defeats, and battle terminations are recorded on the contracts tab.

POST AND REWARDS

Alter Egos

With the new Alter Egos, you can play as your favorite fighters with realistic looks and characteristics in authentic career-defining moments (i.e., a fighter's iconic UFC debut, title win, etc.). Alter Egos can only be found in UFC 5.

Punch Card

By playing, you can work your way up to earning pre-determined rewards in the form of in-game currency, profile customization items, fictional fighter created items, and Alter Egos. In addition, experience can be earned for completing profile challenges, increasing the potential reward capacity of your Punch Card.

ON-LINE CAREER MODE

Players have been asking for it and we're answering. The online career includes matchmaking by skill level, divisional advancement and title fights across four divisions. Players can compete against different created fighters in each division, showcasing several customized characters and fictional wrestlers.

On-line fighter development

You earn Evolution Points for completing matches in your online career, which can be used to upgrade the features, moves and perks of the created fighter. Once a player reaches the maximum level of a fighter, that fighter becomes prestigious, resetting their evolution back to the starting point. At the same time, however, it will raise the level cap and unlock access to additional moves and perks.

Bonuses to XP

Expense XP bonuses increase the rate at which Evolution Points are earned during matches in the online career for a limited time. Bonuses can be earned as in-game rewards, giving players extra motivation to join the Octagon.

CAREER REVIEW

Career Mode has a brand new introduction. Once again with Coach Davis, you can embark on a journey through your UFC career with new cinematic scenes, locations and a special focus on entering competition. Enhanced training camps allow players to simulate the training process and reach peak fitness and fight commitment faster through sparring exercises. The sparring sessions will also include challenge packs for which players will earn a rating based on the number of challenges completed.

ACT FIGHT NOW

The revamped popular Fight Now mode offers a variety of authentic MMA/UFC fight types such as Main Card, Main Event, Championship, Backyard and Kumite.

Game Styles

Players can now customize their preferred individual game styles in all game modes. Decide purely on your own whether you want to play Simulation mode, which uses real-time rounds, increased damage and stamina drops to mimic authentic combat, or Knockout mode, with health regeneration "turned off" and unlimited stamina options including combinations of the two, or Stand and Bang mode, where you can fight with your hands only.

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