Supremacy MMA
Encyclopedia
Supremacy MMA is a mixed martial arts
–style (MMA) fighting
video game developed by Kung Fu Factory and published by 505 Games
. The game was released on September 23, 2011 for the PlayStation 3
and Xbox 360
game consoles. The game received generally negative reviews upon release, with criticism aimed at poor online performance and a difficult fighting system.
contrasted this competition style to that of other MMA titles such as UFC Undisputed 2010
or EA Sports MMA
which it said, "take a professional, technical approach to mixed martial arts".
As a fight progresses, competitors faces can become swollen and bruised after being punched repeatedly, and blood from the fighters begins to coat the ground. IGN
reviewer Greg Miller stated that he gasped when witnessing one of the knockout animations.
video game to allow players to fight using female fighters. The two female fighters in the game are based on the real life MMA fighters Felice Herrig and Michele Guitierrez.
The full roster includes the following fighters and their respective real world inspirations:
rating the Xbox 360 version with a score of 47 out of 100 and the PlayStation 3 version a score of 48 out of 100. Greg Miller of IGN
criticized the game stating that it suffered from animations which appear stiff, poor quality voice acting, and latency issues during online play, although he noted that even worse than these problems was the game's poor controls. While performing his review of the game, Greg Miller created a preview video showing the choppy animations, unresponsive controls, and echoing sound effects present during online matches, concluding the video stating, "I don't like this game very much." GamePro
appreciated the similarity between the fighters' depictions and their real life counterparts, but criticized the fighting system, musical soundtrack, and gratuitous violence particularly during the Mortal Kombat–style finishing moves
, which often result in broken limbs or necks and do not follow the style of typical MMA fighting.
Mixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
–style (MMA) fighting
Fighting game
Fighting game is a video game genre where the player controls an on-screen character and engages in close combat with an opponent. These characters tend to be of equal power and fight matches consisting of several rounds, which take place in an arena. Players must master techniques such as...
video game developed by Kung Fu Factory and published by 505 Games
505 Games
505 Games, formerly known as 505 Game Street, is an Italian video game publishing division of Italian company Digital Bros. group founded in 2006...
. The game was released on September 23, 2011 for the PlayStation 3
PlayStation 3
The is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
and Xbox 360
Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...
game consoles. The game received generally negative reviews upon release, with criticism aimed at poor online performance and a difficult fighting system.
Gameplay
The game takes players through an underground amateur mixed martial arts circuit as their character attempts to achieve fame within the game. GameZoneGameZone
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contrasted this competition style to that of other MMA titles such as UFC Undisputed 2010
UFC Undisputed 2010
UFC Undisputed 2010 is a mixed martial arts video game featuring Ultimate Fighting Championship properties and fighters developed by Yuke's and published by THQ. It was released on May 25, 2010, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and for the first time PlayStation Portable...
or EA Sports MMA
EA Sports MMA
EA Sports MMA is a fighting video game which was published by EA Sports and developed by EA Tiburon from 2008 to 2010. It was released for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on October 19, 2010 in North America and October 22, 2010 everywhere else....
which it said, "take a professional, technical approach to mixed martial arts".
As a fight progresses, competitors faces can become swollen and bruised after being punched repeatedly, and blood from the fighters begins to coat the ground. IGN
IGN
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reviewer Greg Miller stated that he gasped when witnessing one of the knockout animations.
Roster
Supremacy MMA is the first mixed martial artsMixed martial arts
Mixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be...
video game to allow players to fight using female fighters. The two female fighters in the game are based on the real life MMA fighters Felice Herrig and Michele Guitierrez.
The full roster includes the following fighters and their respective real world inspirations:
- St. John Ackland (Devon Schwan) – Submission WrestlingSubmission wrestlingSubmission wrestling or Combat wrestling in Japan, is a formula of competition and a general term describing the aspect of martial arts and combat sports that focus on clinch and ground fighting with the aim of obtaining a submission using submission holds...
- Dante Algearey (Jason Yorrick) – KickboxingKickboxingKickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing....
- Pre-order DLC: Shane del Rosario (Shane del RosarioShane Del RosarioShane Kalani del Rosario is an American Thai boxer and mixed martial artist currently signed to Strikeforce. He holds the distinction of being the first American to become the WBC Muay Thai World Heavyweight Champion and has earned stoppage victories in all 11 of his professional mixed martial...
) – MMAMixed martial artsMixed Martial Arts is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, karate, judo and other styles. The roots of modern mixed martial arts can be... - Michele Guitierrez (Michele GutierrezMichele GutierrezMichele "Diablita" Gutierrez is a female mixed martial artist and former professional boxer. Along with MMA fighter Felice Herrig, the two appear in the video game Supremacy MMA, the first MMA title to have female fighters.-Career:...
) – Kickboxing - Yuki Hashimoto (Steve Kim) – KarateKarateis a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...
- Tomo Hayabusa (Fernando Chien) – JudoJudois a modern martial art and combat sport created in Japan in 1882 by Jigoro Kano. Its most prominent feature is its competitive element, where the object is to either throw or takedown one's opponent to the ground, immobilize or otherwise subdue one's opponent with a grappling maneuver, or force an...
- Felice Herrig (Felice HerrigFelice HerrigFelice Nicole Herrig is an American kickboxer, Muay Thai fighter, and mixed martial artist. Born in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, she began her career practicing kickboxing and Muay Thai before transitioning to MMA in 2009...
) – Muay ThaiMuay ThaiMuay Thai is a combat sport from Thailand that uses stand-up striking along with various clinching techniques. It is similar to other Indochinese kickboxing systems, namely pradal serey from Cambodia, tomoi from Malaysia, lethwei from Myanmar and muay Lao from Laos... - Ilya Klimenko (Nikolai Ruabtsev) – WrestlingWrestlingWrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
- Jerome Le Banner (Jerome Le BannerJérôme Le BannerJérôme "Geronimo" Le Banner , is a French kickboxer and K-1 superstar, famous for his aggressive fighting style and knockout power....
) – KickboxingKickboxingKickboxing refers to a group of martial arts and stand-up combat sports based on kicking and punching, historically developed from karate, Muay Thai and western boxing.... - Unlockable: Pierre Matiss (Joe Schilling) – SavateSavateSavate , also known as boxe française, French boxing, French kickboxing or French footfighting, is a French martial art which uses the hands and feet as weapons combining elements of western boxing with graceful kicking techniques. Only foot kicks are allowed unlike some systems such as Muay...
- Unlockable: Mariano Mendosa (Mariano Mendosa) – BoxingBoxingBoxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
- Jens Pulver (Jens PulverJens PulverJens Johnnie Pulver is an American mixed martial artist . He was the first Ultimate Fighting Championship lightweight champion and was a coach on the The Ultimate Fighter 5 reality show, which aired on Spike TV. He was formerly signed as a featherweight with World Extreme Cagefighting , which is...
) – Boxing - Pre-order DLC: Bao Quach (Bao QuachBao QuachBao Quach is a Vietnamese-American featherweight professional mixed martial artist who has fought for Bellator, Affliction, EliteXC, Strikeforce, World Extreme Cagefighting, King of the Cage, ICON Sport and Shooto promotions. Bao has defeated the likes of Chris David, Cole Escovedo, and Doug Evans...
) – Muay Thai - Demian Reis (Giva Santana) – Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- Jack Saxon (Brent CooperBrent CooperBrent "The Disciple" Cooper is a professional boxer. He is also a devout Christian and works as a personal trainer. The vast majority of his professional fights have been contested in Nashville.-Boxing career:...
) – MMA - Malaipet Sitarvut (Malaipet Sitarvut) – Muay Thai
Development
Supremacy MMA was announced on June 11, 2010, and the publishers stated it would be shown that year at E3 2010. The game was originally slated for a June 2011 release but was not released until September 23, 2011.Reception
The game received generally negative reviews upon release with review aggregator MetacriticMetacritic
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rating the Xbox 360 version with a score of 47 out of 100 and the PlayStation 3 version a score of 48 out of 100. Greg Miller of IGN
IGN
IGN is an entertainment website that focuses on video games, films, music and other media. IGN's main website comprises several specialty sites or "channels", each occupying a subdomain and covering a specific area of entertainment...
criticized the game stating that it suffered from animations which appear stiff, poor quality voice acting, and latency issues during online play, although he noted that even worse than these problems was the game's poor controls. While performing his review of the game, Greg Miller created a preview video showing the choppy animations, unresponsive controls, and echoing sound effects present during online matches, concluding the video stating, "I don't like this game very much." GamePro
GamePro
GamePro Media was a United States gaming media company publishing online and print content on the video game industry, video game hardware, and video game software developed for a video game console , a computer, and/or a mobile device . GamePro Media properties include GamePro magazine and...
appreciated the similarity between the fighters' depictions and their real life counterparts, but criticized the fighting system, musical soundtrack, and gratuitous violence particularly during the Mortal Kombat–style finishing moves
Fatality (Mortal Kombat)
In the Mortal Kombat series of fighting games, a Fatality is a finishing move that can be used against one's defeated opponent at the end of the final match, after the boss character says "Finish Him/Her." The Fatalities are usually lethal, featuring a brutal and morbid execution of the defenseless...
, which often result in broken limbs or necks and do not follow the style of typical MMA fighting.