UFC: Throwdown
UFC: Throwdown is based on the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), mixed martial arts sports. The game places you in the position as a real-world fighter, utilizing various fighting styles, such as…
UFC: Throwdown is a fighting developed by Capcom Production Studio 3, released 5 June 2002 on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.
What UFC: Throwdown is
UFC: Throwdown is a fighting game developed by Capcom Production Studio 3 and released in 2002. It was published by Crave Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2.
The premise, in the publisher's words
UFC: Throwdown is based on the UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship), mixed martial arts sports. The game places you in the position as a real-world fighter, utilizing various fighting styles, such as Freestyle, Wrestling, Kickboxing, Ju Jitsu, etc. Each fighter has a variety of real-life moves, in different categories. There are punches, kicks, grapples and takedowns. There are also ways of making your opponent submit, or "tapout", to gain a victory. You have the ability to perform combos, but these combos are realistic; you can perform a 1-2-3-4 punch combo, or a punch-punch-kick, or any variation of those. There are over twenty five fighters in the game, each one based off of real-life…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the UFC series
UFC: Throwdown is the second of 14 entries we hold in the UFC series. The next entry was UFC: Tapout 2 in 2003. Its critic score of 60 is 16 points below the series average of 76. The highest-rated entry is UFC: Tapout at 86.
How it was received
UFC: Throwdown holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 21% of the 981 rated fighting games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
UFC: Throwdown launched on 5 June 2002, within three weeks of Medal of Honor: Frontline, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Neverwinter Nights and Grand Prix 4. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Medal of Honor: Frontline, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Neverwinter Nights, Grand Prix 4.
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