In spring 2009, Peter Moore, president of Electronic Arts Sports, expressed his doubts about the future of combat sports in video games. “The boxing seems to me unfortunately belong to the past combat, and Combat Libre gives me the impression that the future of the fight. We will see where people’s attention and that is something we monitor closely .
Two months later, qu’UFC 2009 THQ came out, Electronic Arts officially announced his label Mixed Martial Arts at E3 in Los Angeles. The reform of the jab is running.
The Mixed Martial Arts or Combat Libre is a combat sport that multidisciplinary back out further than anyone imagined. After spending three years in Japan, the engineer Edward William Barton-Wright returned to London in 1898 to surround themselves with teachers and to found a school of a new art of self defense.
His method named “Bartitsu” embodied learning judo, jujutsu, the slipper, cane, of boxing. Although the school closed in 1902 because of student, Conan Doyle had already made his famous concept in 1901 in The Empty House of Return of Sherlock Holmes, as Holmes explained his defeat Moriarty in Switzerland with his knowledge “Baritsu.
The pioneering idea of Barton-Wright fell into disuse and learning several disciplines remained for athletes a way to diversify their range of shots. With the Pride Fighting Championship and Ultimate Fighting Championship as developers saw an opportunity to organize fights between practitioners of different schools.
In 1993, the UFC built in Las Vegas his Octagon Mesh in which fighters opposed to very violent. The show is censored, critics speak of spectacle with disgust, the UFC is likened to a rat race out of control.
Meanwhile, in 1997, Pride was created in Japan, became the expansion of Japanese wrestling very violent, imposing some ridiculous rules. No elbow or head strike ban in the back of the skull. Meetings do not end as a KO, a decision of an arbitrator or abandoned outright or making submission, armbar type.
The promoters of the UFC must realize that their popular show and insert regulations increasingly clear that the approach of traditional combat sports, whether in the duration of rounds or mistakes listed. Decisions on points, the importance of the referee, it restores a vocation sports.
The anti-doping tests, the weight classes and the supervision of an athletic commission complete regularization of the UFC. In 2007, UFC seal its success and bought the rights to Pride to assimilate and become the leader of the genre.
A redesign of the organization led by a result of the consolidation phenomenon of cross-training, is the mastery of several disciplines to dominate but also standing on the ground. The wrestlers learned attacks boxers, kick boxers were preparing for the worst with the ju-jitsu.
The initiative of Barton-Wright made a brilliant return, both in terms of the theory of the spectacle. The total combat, or martial earning a surprising popularity in the United States.
The enthusiasm of spectators was meant to open the attraction of other combat sports. In a context where even boxing is in decline, publishers of video game feel to change their tune.
In the videogame field, boxing has had a low profile since the 80s. Punch Out the adjustments of Rocky, she wanted oriented arcade, then gradually turned to the simulation lorsqu’Electronic Arts has taken the discipline in hand with the same care for his game of American Football.
Fight Night Round 4 released this month was to achieve years of game design-hazardous, optimize and liquefy a sport that had only awkward portages. It does this by bringing the lightness and the strategic direction of boxing with an engine that operates more chiseled better physical interactions. The last Fight Night EA has also released a few weeks of Punch Out Wii. In photorealism of Fight Night opposes style cartoon from Punch Out game and its design-focused on rhythm and observation.
Punch Out Wii takes the system out of Punch Out on NES, forgetting completely the innovations of the Super Punch Out for Super Nintendo. From this follows a simplistic arcade accessibility quickly shows its limits when the Wii interface can translate reactivity with body movements. The gameplay becomes tedious at first difficult opponents and the player returns to a conventional joystick maneuverability.
In contradiction, Fight Night a research where visual realism Punch Out tent complete physical immersion. Balance Board and Wiimote should give an impression of boxing more concrete than Fight Night Round 4, but his physical limitations and game-design unsuitable complete the experience before it can reach maturity.
Boxing seems to have reached the current limits of gameplay and graphic detail. The nature of sport also implies a limit of content, which is confined to a single discipline. It is here that the Free Combat may become a possible future fighting games.
The martial arts has not waited for his time trying to break into video games. In late 2000, invited himself Ultimate Fighting Championship Game Boy and PlayStation 1 to seduce an audience that thought off. Choosing a platform to the public too young, a very poor implementation and poor reputation of TV shows contributed to a commercial failure for the UFC. Five other games was prolific with the same indifference until 2004.
Sensing a sector to revitalize, THQ, which had already succeeded in revitalizing the American games of catch, signed an agreement with the UFC in 2007. This partnership begat UFC 2009 Undisputed, currently regarded as the first game truly faithful and technically successful in the Fight Free.
Despite some weaknesses ergonomics and handling unlikely for beginners when it comes to ground fighting, UFC 2009 is the return of Mixed Martial Arts, and upgrade with boxing.
No wonder then that the Mixed Martial Arts have been several months since the concern of Electronic Arts. In February this year, we got confirmation of an MA in development at EA Tiburon. A month later, Peter Moore made this statement important enough for THQ himself reuses in its promotional campaign for UFC 2009.
It’s finally at the Electronic Entertainment Expo is Los Angeles in May that Peter Moore revealed the new label MMA-Fight-Free EA Sports.
Chairman of the Section of EA Sports, Peter Moore reflected in marketer first. The Mixed Martial Arts, now have a credible sports have evolved from a niche to a mass market. Boxing has a strong brand image, but never experienced explosive accession faced by MMA.
There is an opportunity to seize and Electronic Arts have already husked says UFC 2009 to learn at their own development.
The interest for the video game Fight Free at the expense of boxing is incidentally the English translation of new expectations and desires in our society of the spectacle. Boxing has changed since the beginning of the century, in its promotion, but not in form, knowing its heyday in the seventies. It is the sport of legends who acquired the title of “Noble Art” over the years.
Unfortunately, the public grew tired of the nobility. It became compulsive violence and MMA meet this appetite. The lure of combat boundless quickly clashed with the ambitions of developers, who have had to introduce rules to broadcast their games circus elsewhere than on a single cable channel in the second half of the evening.
Miss the market pay-per-view, losing ground to catch that radical, free fight it is refused and eventually finds himself politically correct though still incredibly bloody.
Boxing is thus found offside, and by extension beyond video games. The potential for entertainment Fight Free offers more alternatives, possibility of extreme views that boxing can offer. With an audience of gamers who get tired more quickly, instant gratification, the action without barriers has become an obligation.
The people returned to his Roman cycle, seeking a catharsis that can erase the images of war and crisis. He wants to play and because of the blood sweat no longer suffices.
The Mixed Martial Arts won the fight by judges decision. Champion leaves with the belt of all marketing classes, but nothing says it will retain if the boxing would one day be his comeback.
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