UFC 6 AI is designed in a way that rewards playing without a brain.

I have been playing the UFC 6 games since UFC 4 and am used to how the AI likes to play. On UFC 5 i could easily handle the Pro AI and on this game i have gotten to the point where i have to choke to lose to the Hard AI. That being said, it still takes a ton of effort to not make mistakes and capitalize on every small opening you get. At that point, it still does not feel like a very balanced experience since the feeling of the AI reacting frame perfect for like 2 minutes (where u just don’t fight it and run away) and then becoming a tomato can does not feel like a genuine experience. It feels like i’m waiting out cycles in an RPG.

This is only if I try to fight normally of course. 

I finally tried the UFC 6 campaign today on Hard (The normal one not the Chris Carter one. I doubt i will ever open that tab tbh.) and i found the first fight absolutely BRUTAL. My opponent was dodging everything, checking every kick, landing much faster and harder than me. Even if i blocked he almost instantly broke my guard or hit some impossible body/head combo. I tried this fight 5 times and was in disbelief at how hard they made this, especially considering I know that I can beat this level of AI normally. That’s when i said “screw it” and threw nothing but a rear head kick over and over. This resulted with me winning by KO in less than a minute. I have since tried just being an idiot and whatever the first thing land is, spam it. Since then, I have found the game much easier and can even beat the better CPUs. This is not a good feeling, it feels lame as **bleep** to be honest, knowing that another person online can easily just do this to me as well and the game itself doesn’t know how to handle it. I don’t code, I can’t say how to fix it, but I know that how this game feels to play is not what you wanted people to experience.

There are lots of positives. I love the new striking and ground animations and the game looks great. However, these don’t matter if the game is not fun to actually play.