Anyone else check out the demo that was released yesterday? I know there's a handful of fellow UFC fans on here and as we all know the past attempts have been horrible, I'm happy to say that this new one actually seems to be worth it. The demo only lets you play as Liddell and Shogun (which makes one wonder why it wasn't released last Thursday), so of course I got some revenge for Chuck and knocked Shogun around a few good times.
The character models are outstanding, I was floored when I first saw Shogun and the amount of detail in him was incredible, it almost felt like I was watching Saturday's fight only with much different results. The controls are very fluid and the rounds will actually go the entire round, unlike the others where it was a contest on who can press two buttons together to cause an arm bar and end the round within 20 seconds.
The tutorial shows just how deep the controls can be, I took a look at it after playing a few rounds and was pleasantly surprised on how much depth they put into it. I didn't try all of them out since it was late and it started to be too much for me, but it looks like they have some major UFC fans working on the game and they took designing this game very seriously. It's going to be interesting to see how well they work when using a more complicated fighter.
I was kind of on the fence about this, since it could have gone either way, but now I'll be picked this up as soon as it its the shelves next month.