Ultimate Fighting Championship (video game)


Ultimate Fighting Championship is the first video game based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship mixed martial arts tournament. It was first developed by Anchor Inc. for the Sega Dreamcast on August 29, 2000, then by Opus for the Sony PlayStation on November 13 the same year, and finally by Fluid Studios for the Game Boy Color on November 27 the same year. All three versions of the game were published by Crave Entertainment in North America, while Ubi Soft published the three versions in Europe and Capcom publishing the PlayStation and Dreamcast versions in Japan.

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The Dreamcast version received "generally favorable reviews", just two points shy of "universal acclaim", while the PlayStation version received "mixed" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, where both console versions were ported and published by Capcom on January 25, 2001, Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40 for the former console version, and 24 out of 40 for the latter one.
Dan Morris reviewed the Dreamcast version of the game for Next Generation, rating it five stars out of five, and stated that "No-holds barred fighting gets a world-class Dreamcast translation, with gameplay that's both lifelike and exciting."
Daniel Erickson reviewed the PlayStation version of the game for Next Generation, rating it two stars out of five, and stated that "Hardcore Ultimate Fighting fans should pick up a Dreamcast."