I Accidentally Made UFC 5 Into A Horror Game In This Underappreciated Game Mode

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Even though has now been out for over a year, I'm still playing the game and having fun with it. As one of the only good recent combat sports games that has come out (cough, I'm looking at you ), it's managed to scratch the combat-sports gaming itch that I have as both a boxing and MMA fan. With the demise of the franchise and seemingly no other development team willing to enter the arena, right now, in terms of the genre, all I have is .

And while I've explored nearly everything the game has to offer, from trying to muster enough stats for my pitiful online career to betting on every upcoming UFC event, I've, for the most part, stayed away from the tournament mode. I don't tend to play Xbox games with friends, so typically, I stick to the weekly challenges, career, and ranked online modes — but tournament mode was calling my name, and I'm happy it did because it resulted in one of the most gruesome and unintentional things I've done in the game so far.

has a tournament mode in Event Creator that's great for in-person round-robin sessions when playing the game with a group of people, but it also is generally fun to take a break from Ranked online mode and take out my frustrations on a few Legendary AI. While many might know that there is a tournament mode in, they'd probably not be alone in never touching it. After all, career and online ranked modes are typically more alluring to most.

With the right settings, tournament mode becomes abrutal examination of the strides that EA has made with the damage system. To achieve the desired effect, «Continued Damage» must be toggled on under Settings, and «Doctor Stoppages» must be turned off under Game Style. Essentially, this creates an old-school-style Kumite Iron Man tournament where the finals can see the full extent of player damage with destroyed bodies and deep facial cuts akin to a horror movie like .

Keep in mind the damage settings also apply to stamina, so by the finals of the tournament, there's a pretty high