EA SPORTS UFC 4

 Xbox One
User Score
2.1

Generally unfavorable reviews- based on 103 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 103
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 103
  3. Negative: 79 out of 103
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  1. MatchesnNaplam
    Aug 22, 2020
    0
    Huge step backwards. Save your money for when this hits the bargain bin. It won't take long.
  2. vROBOCOPv
    Sep 6, 2020
    0
    Full on in game ads added a few weeks after release so reviews wouldn't reflect it. Absolute scummy publisher
  3. Morvyck
    Aug 27, 2020
    0
    This game is in my personal opinion absolute garbage. The story mode fights are either way too easy to win or physically impossible to win. The online fights are an exact replica of the meta from other games, spam buttons and you win, it doesn't matter the fighter or style you choose, spam and win is the way to go. Absolutely zero strategy and I don't see there being any strategy any timeThis game is in my personal opinion absolute garbage. The story mode fights are either way too easy to win or physically impossible to win. The online fights are an exact replica of the meta from other games, spam buttons and you win, it doesn't matter the fighter or style you choose, spam and win is the way to go. Absolutely zero strategy and I don't see there being any strategy any time soon, perhaps UFC 12 will be a bit more strategic and may actually be an MMA game. This is an arcade meant for people who have nothing better to do than talk **** without any skills or knowledge of fighting, if you're one of those people this may be perfect for you. I recommend saving your money as the game is worthless, was an inch of a step forward from UFC 3 but still a multitude of things to work on, EA should stop the series before it gets too embarrassing.… Expand
  4. Undisputed420
    Sep 8, 2020
    0
    Copy and paste. Lack of any attention to detail. **** graphics, **** animations, boring career mode, lack of game modes, **** GnP, **** ground game, just a bad game. Minimal effort put in by a team who clearly aren't passionate about mma.
  5. MrShiakallis
    Sep 15, 2020
    0
    Regression after regression, mistake after mistake, I'm no longer supporting EA.
  6. taz4101
    Oct 30, 2020
    4
    Have had the game since launch, updates have mostly added cosmetics. Still horrible bugs and gameplay problems. It's a large step down from ufc 3. Shouldn't have bought it and waited a year to see if they ever properly fix it. Even if they do, the direction it went in is not positive for the genre. Hopefully someone else gets the license next game and does a better job. Or bellator or oneHave had the game since launch, updates have mostly added cosmetics. Still horrible bugs and gameplay problems. It's a large step down from ufc 3. Shouldn't have bought it and waited a year to see if they ever properly fix it. Even if they do, the direction it went in is not positive for the genre. Hopefully someone else gets the license next game and does a better job. Or bellator or one champion comes out with a game. Even a unlicensed game would be good… Expand
  7. inkleach
    Sep 8, 2020
    2
    If you have UFC 3 you may as well just avoid this. Everything UFC 3 done right has taken a step backwards here.
    Character models are the same old copy/paste models.. Some as far back as the UFC 1 models, even though several fighters now look drastically different. I put hundreds of hours into UFC 3 online and every match gave me that 'just one more' feeling. Not here. They've somehow taken    If you have UFC 3 you may as well just avoid this. Everything UFC 3 done right has taken a step backwards here.
    Character models are the same old copy/paste models.. Some as far back as the UFC 1 models, even though several fighters now look drastically different. I put hundreds of hours into UFC 3 online and every match gave me that 'just one more' feeling. Not here. They've somehow taken the formula they had and ruined it. Knockout animations grow stale fast, after a huge amount of fans requested ragdoll physics.. They were just ignored. Backyard mode is nice, kumite is horrendous.. I dread seeing I've been put into a kumite match once I go into quick play.
    I would much rather just have paid for a ufc 3 expansion that added backyard mode than this game, which feels like a rushed 'fancied up' ufc 3.
    It needs so much work I wouldn't know where to start. I'm a huge fan, but this game carries an unacceptable price tag for what it is.. Ufc 3.1.    … Expand
  8. bboyherney
    Sep 7, 2020
    0
    No tolerare lo de la publicidad, el cochino juego está a precio completo.Hasta que no cambien eso no cambiare mi nota.
  9. iKing92
    Sep 16, 2021
    0
    GameFace (one of the best feature) removed in this game too after fifa, good job again EA
  10. Tuffluv
    Sep 7, 2020
    0
    EA showing again why they are the worst publisher. Awful gameplay, exploitative monetization scheme, and disgusting ads mid game.
  11. killerdescore
    Oct 8, 2020
    0
    EA sports MMA was better ...
    Also they can't give pc players ,an actual UFC game in 2 years,laziness at his best
  12. kyrdak
    Jun 27, 2021
    0
    this is a game made by people who have no idea about mma nor care about mma fans or mma at all. no ghround striking from the bottom when the top is postured up, a step backwards, the "inovative" LB clinch control is another huge step backwards. the striking has been limited from 3. the career is another bad seed. the first match you have no chance of winning, what were they thinking, theythis is a game made by people who have no idea about mma nor care about mma fans or mma at all. no ghround striking from the bottom when the top is postured up, a step backwards, the "inovative" LB clinch control is another huge step backwards. the striking has been limited from 3. the career is another bad seed. the first match you have no chance of winning, what were they thinking, they think that moves have to be learned from fighters, not gyms, there are no gyms, infact. a huge part of the MMA world, gone. the continued attempt to make social media apart of mma is sad. the career mode is a complete fail. the characters you create mean nothing, you only get visuals, and templates, that can be changed between templates, but thats it. fail. the literal only positive is the move to remove the ultimate money grab mode. that is a step forward. but, amid so many steps back.. it's just a giant fail. these developers need to go back and play the old games and find out what worked well and incorporate it, because they obviously do not intend on watching mma and/or learning the mma world to better the game they are making. THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT FANS ONLY $$… Expand
  13. dragonspawn21
    Sep 9, 2020
    0
    Ads added in post launch. Bold move for the greedy bastards. How on earth did they think this wouldn't cause a controversy? Avoid EA products whenever possible.
  14. BAS3L
    Sep 18, 2020
    1
    This is the first time I’ve been bought a game full price, then actually uninstalled it completely. It was the final straw for me an all EA sports games. I’m over it. They changed absolutely nothing and added some cosmetics. Either make grappling arcadey or simulated based - don’t try to make it both. Who is in charge of the menus? Do you really think I’m going to listen to every stupidThis is the first time I’ve been bought a game full price, then actually uninstalled it completely. It was the final straw for me an all EA sports games. I’m over it. They changed absolutely nothing and added some cosmetics. Either make grappling arcadey or simulated based - don’t try to make it both. Who is in charge of the menus? Do you really think I’m going to listen to every stupid song alphabetically? Is there no way to sort? Oh and thanks for adding 2 new tattoos and 1 new hair style. There are now 10 mohawks and 10 forms of balding (shout out to Cowboy). UFC 4 is trash. EA Sports is trash. They are everything wrong with this generation of gaming. fuq any of you who buy their card packs I hope you and your moms credit cards get in a car accident.… Expand
  15. Mooseman909
    Aug 30, 2020
    4
    Definitely smoother than ufc 3 but I was hoping for something more. Still a fun game with exciting and competitive matches online. I still think thq's undisputed 3 is the high water mark for mma games.
  16. J_BECKETT
    Sep 1, 2020
    3
    This game as it stands is nothing more than a failed attempt to try something different with an already sound game. Granted, a game cannot be the same every year and EA’s UFC 3 wasn’t perfect, but the game is just completely devoid of fun for me.

    A big supposed aim of the development team was to not alienate new players by imposing simpler controls, with these controls being literally    This game as it stands is nothing more than a failed attempt to try something different with an already sound game. Granted, a game cannot be the same every year and EA’s UFC 3 wasn’t perfect, but the game is just completely devoid of fun for me.

    A big supposed aim of the development team was to not alienate new players by imposing simpler controls, with these controls being literally just changing the names of transitions on the ground, which is optional anyway. The standup controls have been changed by using different inputs involving holding down certain buttons. This was not only a very unnecessary change, but it also means that whenever I try to throw a lead body hook, I can instead more often find myself going for a single power leg takedown, which will more than likely just be very easily denied. Additionally, the stand-up severely lacks the excitement you felt when trading strikes in the previous entries, with each strike seeming to have little impact, and leaving you underwhelmed, and this is only if you manage to land a strike as the controls are annoyingly unresponsive. Furthermore, there is no drive to make you explore fighters to see which best fits your play style, with only the top 5 of the division ever being seen on online matches due to their higher stats.

    The weakest of the gameplay mechanics has always been seen as the ground game, which personally I though was great, but still needed a few changes to keep it exciting, but this game has made it somehow worse to play, with the ground and pound being either overpowered or ineffective whatsoever. Additionally the new submission mini games are easy to understand, but rely on nothing more than frantically whirling your analogue sticks around or spontaneously pushing in the triggers to either secure of defend the submission.

    The biggest gameplay update has been seen in the clinch gameplay, which has been turned into a more stand-up orientated mechanic, as opposed to grappling. Going back to the development team's aim of making the game supposedly more new-player friendly, they do nothing except throw you to the wolves in this regard. There are no transitions like in previous games to help you, with you simply having to hope for the best and completely figure it out on your own, which is deeply frustrating, and when you manage to deny that takedown or initiate that flying submission, you are clueless to what you have pressed.

    Positive reviews for this game only look into the new features which it holds over the previous entries, what they fail to see is that the game is in dire need of improvement and will take a long time before it can be fully realised sequel, and not just following the saying of "new is better" because in this case it most certainly is not.    … Expand
  17. Shwiftt
    Sep 4, 2020
    0
    This is not a new UFC game. This is a DLC to ufc 3. The strikes are the same. The knockouts are the SAME and they are HORRIBLE. The ground and pound SUCKS. They were a year behind schedule and instead of adding things the players wanted like better knockouts and better ground and pound. They added necklaces and masks?? Masks to wear in the octagon? Come on guys. UFCDROPEA
  18. Anderson009
    Sep 5, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Game is trash is wrost then ufc 3 idk how it is legal for ea to sell this game for 79.99 the game cost as much as nhl or nfl but has half the game modes not even half a qauter probs honestly ufc has to go to 2k I don’t want to ever buy an ea game again… Expand
  19. Redeyeee
    Sep 5, 2020
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. way worse than UFC 3. This game rewards the person that can spam the fastest and they completely ruined the ground game but UFC YouTuber are refusing to talk about it because they don't want to ruin their rep with EA… Expand
  20. Hyvoan28
    Sep 7, 2020
    0
    Same game than last year with minor changes. Doesnt even have all the top fighters in the game. EA also tried to run ads in the middle of gameplay. I wont buy the next one.
  21. Koala_LOKO
    Sep 7, 2020
    0
    **** models, ads in the middle of the game, and the game exactly as the last with minor changes, dont be a **** idiot like me to buy this thing
  22. Champ__7
    Sep 14, 2020
    0
    No caf. fighters already made. To many other problems to mention it would take all day.In short the worst ufc game ever made.NO JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  23. jefferson90000
    Oct 14, 2020
    2
    A few improvements mired by an incredible amount of downgrades and imbalanced mechanics, pro journalists clearly have no idea about the longevity of gameplay or balance as their reviews show. The community as a whole is disappointed with the game to varying degrees and its easy to see why, with the game being released in an unfinished state, and nearly two months later there have been veryA few improvements mired by an incredible amount of downgrades and imbalanced mechanics, pro journalists clearly have no idea about the longevity of gameplay or balance as their reviews show. The community as a whole is disappointed with the game to varying degrees and its easy to see why, with the game being released in an unfinished state, and nearly two months later there have been very little in the way of improvements. Whilst not without potential, the game is likely 6 months away from a competitively viable state. If you're looking to blow your money on a game to play casually with friends then go ahead, it will be fun for those purposes, but if you're looking anything more than that, avoid entirely. EA Sports games definitely draw the ire of fans much more than other titles, but make no mistake this game is a disgrace compared to the previous instalment. Members of the top 100 in ranked are notorious for cheesing the game, the roster is missing large portions of the top 15 in every division, fighter balancing is a joke, as champions are far superior to any other fighter in the division, and to further add to the list the devs are gaining a reputation for ignoring the community if critical response becomes too negative, such as game changers asking for more realistic cosmetics for CAFs and being systematically ignored, as well as being ignored on gameplay advice in general. The advert controversy, whilst now fixed, is indicative of the decisions made by a headstrong dev team, whom having lost there gameplay lead, are obviously at a loss of how to balance a game, yet unwilling to admit their 'overhaul' of grappling, submissions, striking and the CAF system is killing this game where it stands. UFC 3 still has a big enough online community 2/3 years after launch, in it's current state UFC 4 will be a wasteland this time next year. Whilst the community pray for patches to have this game live up to its potential, the title being the last on EAs contract, and the dev teams blatant 'we know better than the community' attitude, I would not hold your breath. Shameful inclusion to a franchise which certainly had potential in it's budget. If you must play as Conor McGregor in a fighting game, buy UFC 3, or wait for this game to hit the bargain bin (most recently went down 50% on Amazon Prime Day, not two months after launch). Shameful use of the license.… Expand
  24. LeChatwin
    Apr 17, 2021
    0
    Utter trash

    How they managed to make this worse than ufc 3 is beyond me. Controls are awful, gameplay is clunky and don’t even get me started on the career mode coming up against seemingly invincible opponents at the start and not able to change the difficulty. Your fighters stamina will magically evaporate and the opponents can take infinite amounts of strikes but if they hit you with a    Utter trash

    How they managed to make this worse than ufc 3 is beyond me. Controls are awful, gameplay is clunky and don’t even get me started on the career mode coming up against seemingly invincible opponents at the start and not able to change the difficulty. Your fighters stamina will magically evaporate and the opponents can take infinite amounts of strikes but if they hit you with a random strikes you are pretty much done.

    Complete dog ****    … Expand
  25. Simin
    Jun 13, 2021
    0
    Worst game , sometine the game **** and your command doesn’t even go and favorise the other player , online scoring are also ****
  26. Mickey24
    Jan 10, 2022
    0
    The worst game released on Xbox One so far. In the conversation for worst game of all time.
  27. MrJohnson31
    May 7, 2023
    1
    Absolutely rubbish, glitchy, lags regardless of how good your network is, discards critical move commands like it’s going out of fashion, I’m level 68 and I’m deleting it, it’s just too broken and I’m fed up of it fkn up.

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Metascore
82

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 17
  3. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Cubed3
    Nov 9, 2020
    60
    This year's iteration of UFC from EA Sports looks good, and feels good in parts - though the submission system just doesn't appear to be as much fun to play. The best parts of this game are the boxing and kickboxing elements, and the offline career mode is a fun mode to build and forge careers in. With really no other fighting titles to purchase this year, EA Sports UFC 4 will be unrivalled for those looking for another sports-like fighting game - and while UFC 4 is not a bad game, it doesn't do much to appeal to those who don't already have a love and appreciation for the sport or the brand.
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  2. Gamers' Temple
    Sep 8, 2020
    85
    EA Sports UFC 4's gameplay is overall better that its predecessor and the online now has a new mode.
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  3. Windows Central
    Sep 4, 2020
    70
    EA Sports UFC 4 is a fun return to form for EA Sports. With a simplified approach to fighting and the inclusion of a more in-depth career mode, the UFC franchise is on the right track to building better things.
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