EA Sports UFC 3

 PlayStation 4
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4.2

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 297 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 84 out of 297
  2. Mixed: 65 out of 297
  3. Negative: 148 out of 297
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  1. Tattednerd510
    May 20, 2021
    0
    What a huge surprise that yet another EA game is way more focused on microtransactions than actual fun. The grappling is just atrocious. The striking is fine, but shouldn't we get more than just fine from a major sports game. Another shocking surprise, the critic reviews are pretty good. They always are, but the games are always terrible. Can we cancel EA? Is that a thing? Its likeWhat a huge surprise that yet another EA game is way more focused on microtransactions than actual fun. The grappling is just atrocious. The striking is fine, but shouldn't we get more than just fine from a major sports game. Another shocking surprise, the critic reviews are pretty good. They always are, but the games are always terrible. Can we cancel EA? Is that a thing? Its like they're holding our happiness hostage. Remember when you paid full price for a complete game that was enjoyable? Pepperidge farm remembers.… Expand
  2. Sagrell
    Jan 6, 2021
    0
    This is a bug, not a game. Worst game i've ever seen in my life. This is embarrassing
  3. Pessucksdik
    Dec 2, 2020
    0
    Online ranked is full of babies (im guessing by the way they spam overhands and stuff) and if you quit a fight you get minus 30 points but if someone else quits on you you only receive 2 points or something like that Its just a very broken system. I dont care about the career mode so i dont know
  4. TheNights
    Nov 18, 2020
    0
    Oyunda el boyunca adamı dövüp sadece tek yumruk ile beni nakavt etti oyun kısacası iğrenç oynadığım en kötü 2 kişilik oyun budur
  5. Sportsfpsadv
    Oct 15, 2020
    1
    Wtf were these guys thinking this time around... like this is bad, sad and a total mess. Can't adjust sliders or anything for quick fight to make things a little more realistic. And the lack of freedom with this kind of thing is absolutely ridiculous. Its a video game, let us have fun the way WE want.
  6. manul92
    Jul 31, 2020
    1
    1 ball for graphic. EA release the most **** MMA simulator. Don't play it. ...........................
  7. Andrealex98
    Jun 3, 2020
    2
    As good as this game could have been, as **** it is. Submissions and ground game are absolutely retarded, go against khabib and it is almost impossible to deny any transition altough The opponent is just spamming them. Meta combos are also retarded, everybody does knee-elbow or overhand-hook. I really like mma and I fell like breaking The controller when a retarded kid spams elbows and knees
  8. straddieman
    Apr 17, 2020
    0
    A lot like nba2k. You can win all you like and then hey wow computer cheats in last seconds. If you want to smash the ufc's poster boys heads in like adesanya and mcgregor the game has been rigged so those fighters dont lose.
  9. snei
    Apr 11, 2020
    1
    Terrible. Fun only enough to play until you realize mechanics mean the computer can just decide you don't win. I enjoyed the career mode in the UFC Undisputed series in the last generation of consoles. I thought I'd enjoy this when I found it for $20 on the PS store.

    And I did, for awhile. I started playing on easy, to learn all the mechanics because I knew it was complicated. I've seen    Terrible. Fun only enough to play until you realize mechanics mean the computer can just decide you don't win. I enjoyed the career mode in the UFC Undisputed series in the last generation of consoles. I thought I'd enjoy this when I found it for $20 on the PS store.

    And I did, for awhile. I started playing on easy, to learn all the mechanics because I knew it was complicated. I've seen some complaints about the stand up controls, and they're a little clunky, but once you learn them they aren't too bad.

    At first the ground fighting and clinch seems complicated but once you figure it out it isn't too bad either, at first. But once you get good enough to move beyond easy you realize something about the computer.

    That is they are able to do things you aren't. You lose stamina when they don't. They can block whatever transition they want, until they decide to let you go. The normal level is frustrating enough. But the high difficulty level is just stupid.

    I had a character, with max ground stats, moves maxed, all the perks to support what I was trying to do, and my opponent's stats weren't maxed, but I couldn't win. I couldn't do anything. I could initiate a submission from every potion but I couldn't finish. The computer moves before the graphics even appear on screen.

    I made an account to complain about this game. Just don't buy it. I don't think they bothered to do much play testing.    … Expand
  10. thenoobbob
    Apr 10, 2020
    0
    The worst game in my collection of games. It is complete garbage. The whole game is depending on the stats of your fighter. So have fun seeing the same overpowered fighters over and over.
  11. memrace
    Apr 9, 2020
    0
    this game is **** ****
    here are the reasons:
    1. **** servers
    2. The poor mechanics of wrestling
    3. broken animation
    4. unbalanced characters

    DO NOT BUY AND DO NOT PLAY!
  12. TheDatenshiMMA
    Mar 10, 2020
    0
    I put a 0 cause of the fakes or biased reviews. As a fighter with a 2-0 record in amateur (you can follow me on ig ippomma) the gameplay mechanics feel weird, they want to be sim oriented but at the same time it feels really arcady ! The animation are terrible it look lile all the fighters are Dominick Cruz and are light sparring but make their opponent fly 7 feet above the ground with aI put a 0 cause of the fakes or biased reviews. As a fighter with a 2-0 record in amateur (you can follow me on ig ippomma) the gameplay mechanics feel weird, they want to be sim oriented but at the same time it feels really arcady ! The animation are terrible it look lile all the fighters are Dominick Cruz and are light sparring but make their opponent fly 7 feet above the ground with a jab, the imput lag is crazy there is a full 1.2 second between the time you press the button and you charachter execute. everything has a purpose lets say in the game you throw an uppercut and my opponent throw a hook, for wathever reason the Uppercut will win wich is not always the case (lidell vs evans finish for exemple) well people say the striking is good and ground game bad but compared to ea ufc 3 everything is bad … Expand
  13. Hellothere22
    Jan 25, 2020
    1
    Another dog crap game from EA. Way to hard to body strike, ground is over powered and scummy micro transactions. Don’t buy this game
  14. Ibragim
    Jan 3, 2020
    0
    What the **** is this ****
    I thought I bought a game Not a ****ing stupid ****
  15. ImAppalled2020
    Dec 27, 2019
    1
    In a word, appalling. Why are the options for tattoo choices only limited to generic designs and objectified images of women? Why not include designs that feature men being sexualised as well? So sexist, and so disappointing. UFC must stand for u **** c****.
  16. sammypepsi
    Dec 15, 2019
    2
    Annoying as hell to Land 50 strikes on the enemy and he wins with 8 landed strikes. After striking an enemy that lays at the bottom for 2 minutes he just stood up and ended me with a jab. Wtf ea.
  17. here2comment
    Dec 8, 2019
    0
    Lesson of life, If you see the name Geoff "the brain of donkey" Harrower's name on any game’s cast, avoid it like cancer. This disaster of a dump you call EA SPORTS UFC 3 is exactly what happens when EA puts a unqualified knucklehead on a leading roll of a licensed game with unlimited budget and 0 quality control. Unfortunately game itself will still sell as long as Geoff keep hangingLesson of life, If you see the name Geoff "the brain of donkey" Harrower's name on any game’s cast, avoid it like cancer. This disaster of a dump you call EA SPORTS UFC 3 is exactly what happens when EA puts a unqualified knucklehead on a leading roll of a licensed game with unlimited budget and 0 quality control. Unfortunately game itself will still sell as long as Geoff keep hanging out with UFC celebrities and sitting on UFC license
    Only at EA, Geoof and his totally incompetent team can keep rolling out 3 low quality garbage which averaged out 3.5/10 reviews and still get a blank check from EA for the next garbage.
    UFC 3 In a nut shell.
    1. Ultra unresponsive control made this a turn based combat: Massive input delay + poorly built net environment made your feel like your fighter never follow your commands, moment to moment decision making is out of question, say if you see a middle kick coming your way, you meant to guard your middle section, sorry, it’s not how this garbage game works, everything react in

    Actually, the input delay and garbage net code is so self telling, these low IQ self pro-cliamed “developers” don’t even bother to hide it anymore, you can feel the full unresponsiveness in fighter select screen without get into the fight!

    2. Advanced strike that hit your opponent’s face & body solid fail to register 30% of time, and can be cheesed by just keep walking up & down. I don’t know who decide this trash can hit the shelves with such quality & even after so many patches, imaging you are in a eSport event projected to 10000+ audience and your tonado kick land on your opponent’s face but game is not register, and result in a instant KO from a slow upper cut. This is why no eSport will take this trash seriously.

    3. Most low IQ combo system in the history of fighting game, UFC3 got the budget for a fighting sim game, but ended up with a combo system similar to MK11 & Tekken, pre-memorized combo will punish you for a move you didn’t execute, or executed 5 secs ago, at time it truly feels like the fighters are fighting by itself without your control. And most importalty, different fighter will have different command for the same move, say a knee to the body will be R2 + O for fighter x and it’s a flying knee to the head for fighter y. speechless, I can’t help but to think how much the genius who came up with this fail at life

    4. 0 Take down defense, fighter with high grappling status all have 100% none deniable take downs, some even launch across half the octagon with 0 stamina plenty or risk, extremely spamable and no vaild way to deny. Funny thing is take downs are already easy enough to success pre patch if you execute in the right time, till some cheese cry to this “brain of donkey” Geoff how they want keep spamming and that’s exactly what Geoff gave to them.

    I’d pay double of $59.99 to ban Geoff from touching another video game, for the sake of humanity.    … Expand
  18. GraveAaa
    Dec 8, 2019
    1
    This game - SSSSSHIIIIT
    Why can't you make a good online server? I want to enjoy the game over the network, and not response time of 1 second
  19. Aquvamaen
    Nov 1, 2019
    2
    A downgrade from an already mediocre game in UFC 2. EA shows that yet again don`t really improve game play from the previous title in series to the newest one. Boring game play, more customization options, but apart from that it`s not a very impressive. Wouldn`t recommend
  20. Kauman
    Sep 23, 2019
    0
    Input lag 2000ms
    Ping to server 200ms
    How to play this ?

    Random hits, spamming with painful tricks, terrible community inside the game, no support and patches.
  21. Ze4f
    Jul 13, 2019
    0
    Pure trash! Save Your money and stick with UFC2. Shame on you, EA Canada...
  22. MetaBoBB
    Apr 21, 2019
    1
    It is almost the same as UFC 2... Not many improvements, just a recycled game with the name UFC 3 on it. Trash.
  23. ALLRUSSIANS
    Nov 2, 2018
    0
    This animation, it's simple... GOD. Is worth 4,000 rubles (I from Russia). For 4,000 rubles animation should be least AWESOME! WHY THE HELL IT SO TERRIBLE?!
  24. TIVIX
    Sep 22, 2018
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Been a gamer and UFC fan since the debut (UFC 2) in the US in the 90's and have owned every video game of the genre. That said, this is the worst rendition to the series by far. lazy changes that actually made the game less realistic than the last release, highly disapointed with the physics and game modes of this horrible production. Cant wait 5 years for the next one...… Expand
  25. xenomorf72
    Aug 8, 2018
    0
    I would rather perform in a real professional MMA fight, AND have a better chance of winning than with the completely untuitive controls EA is offering here.
  26. Popogamer
    Jul 26, 2018
    0
    I was a huge fan of UFC2. Hands down the most played game on my PS4, learning the striking, grappling and foundations of the game. Striking felt crisp, and while so many reviews talk about an "improved striking system", I beg to differ.

    I argue that the only significant improvement of the striking system is the able to engage in head movement whilst going forward and backward. This is    I was a huge fan of UFC2. Hands down the most played game on my PS4, learning the striking, grappling and foundations of the game. Striking felt crisp, and while so many reviews talk about an "improved striking system", I beg to differ.

    I argue that the only significant improvement of the striking system is the able to engage in head movement whilst going forward and backward. This is more like the real thing. Everything else is completely out of whack. Striking now feels unbelievably slow, and whether you argue from a gaming point of view (more intricate striking) or a sports point of view (more realistic), the new system does no favours for either.

    As a fan of the series, I strongly suggest dodging this title.    … Expand
  27. Shekky
    May 22, 2018
    3
    Grappling in this game still is absolutely terrible, Career mode is an improvement over UFC 2 still needs work though especially when I fought Cris Cyborg 5 times in a row as Champion I think the game registered 2 different Cris Cyborgs one at Featherweight and one at Bantamweight. The grappling needs a complete rework as well as submissions. Also if you knock someone down 3 or 4 times inGrappling in this game still is absolutely terrible, Career mode is an improvement over UFC 2 still needs work though especially when I fought Cris Cyborg 5 times in a row as Champion I think the game registered 2 different Cris Cyborgs one at Featherweight and one at Bantamweight. The grappling needs a complete rework as well as submissions. Also if you knock someone down 3 or 4 times in a row and completely recover doesn't seem very realistic your body will go through wear and tear and it should make it harder and harder for you to come back into a fight… Expand
  28. eiecctro
    May 5, 2018
    2
    Game gets boring very quickly, you played 1 match and you finished the whole game.
  29. AntonArnold
    May 3, 2018
    0
    Wish I could get a refund on them. Online mode catered to those who buy the packs and then you get paired up facing fighters who are significantly boosted up.
  30. FusionGaming
    May 3, 2018
    1
    Whoever introduced the idea of throwing any strike you like while being able to move and back off was a genius! But unfortunately, that's the only good thing I can say about this game. It has been 3 months and Ultimate Team single player is still unplayable because of the AI's stamina. I just had a 3 round fight, by the end I destroyed him, which has left me no stamina whatsoever (he hadWhoever introduced the idea of throwing any strike you like while being able to move and back off was a genius! But unfortunately, that's the only good thing I can say about this game. It has been 3 months and Ultimate Team single player is still unplayable because of the AI's stamina. I just had a 3 round fight, by the end I destroyed him, which has left me no stamina whatsoever (he had MAXIMUM stamina so I couldn't KO him even though I delivered 300+!!! strikes) and he still won by decision. I had twice as many significant and regular strikes. Well I don't care about the final results it is just interesting to see, but I do care about AI not draining overall stamina. It is a pain and I wasted $60 for this terrible game.… Expand
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75

Generally favorable reviews - based on 56 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 56
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 56
  3. Negative: 0 out of 56
  1. CD-Action
    May 16, 2018
    80
    Revamped career mode is extremely enjoyable this time and the game as a whole is a step forward for the franchise. UFC 3 looks amazing, as you can clearly see the effects of trading blows – injuries, blood staining the shorts, sweat trickling down the skin. What needs to be dealt with in the next installment is the ground game, which trails way behind entertaining, dynamic stand-up fighting. [04/2018, p.70]
  2. games(TM)
    Mar 22, 2018
    80
    Brilliantly realised for hardened MMA fans. [Issue#198, p.75]
  3. PLAY! Zine
    Mar 22, 2018
    75
    After turbulent end of the last year, EA managed to release a good game in UFC 3 without many scandals. The game itself is better than its predecessor, but it still lacks a way to connect with players new to this sport. New GOAT mode is a great innovation and adds a new twist to the known career mode. Fighting, even though it’s very good, still has problems, which are already annoying the players.
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