I'm probably not supposed to tell you this, but at the 2012 UFC Fan Expo I overheard Gilbert Melendez tell one of the EA Sports guys that he got his 'face scan' for the new UFC game and he's beyond stoked. That may not be surprising to you since Strikeforce is a ZUFFA property, but I also know that a lot of other MMA fighters that one would never expect to get a face scan for a ZUFFA endorsed game also got their digital likeness captured. Perhaps this is what EA Sports is alluding to in their 'Inside Look' at the development of EA Sports UFC.

The marathon capture session lasted three days and the team captured over 200 fighters’ likenesses for potential use in an upcoming EA SPORTS UFC title.

The images are then sorted in a program until they can be processed later on. These processed images are used by artists who model the characters they create based on the data captured.

The EA SPORTS UFC development team was also lucky enough to receive a tour of the Ultimate Fighter Gym. They saw the fighters’ changing rooms, the lounge, the gym itself and Dana White’s office. They took photo reference of the gym to use if they needed to recreate the environment for the upcoming videogame.

Ugh, my eye is doing that weird thing where it flinches uncontrollably, so I'm going to run in the corner of my room and cry about it. In the meantime, check out the rest of EA Sports UFC Inside Look.

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+10 # Guest 2012-07-28 11:41

Sounds promising when guys like Sam Sicilia, Mike Pierce and Louis Gaudinot are confirmed for the game

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+6 # Guest 2012-07-28 11:42

I'm strokin out over here. And I ain't talking about anything to do with the head on me shoulders...

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+1 # Guest 2012-07-28 12:12

how many did the last one have. from thq?

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0 # Guest 2012-07-30 16:37

Between 150 and 160, but that number INCLUDED a lot of doubles and triples (i.e LHW Anderson Silva, MW Anderson Silva, PRIDE Anderson Silva etc).

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+5 # Guest 2012-07-28 12:17

Hopefully they mocap them all too, and fuck this generic "template" bullshit.

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+4 # hatelicks 2012-07-28 13:26

Being on the TUF set, you think maybe that's how you begin in career mode?

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+3 # Yari 2012-07-28 14:06

Its not something to be particularly excited about. 50% of those fighters would never be used.

And the other 50% will never play like they should, with those kind of numbers. Theres no way top fighters get the attention they deserve.

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0 # Guest 2012-07-29 14:08

Quoting Yari:

Its not something to be particularly excited about. 50% of those fighters would never be used.

And the other 50% will never play like they should, with those kind of numbers. Theres no way top fighters get the attention they deserve.

if you only have the top 15 fighters in the game like Undisputed the roster is outdated by the time the game comes out.

I think its great that they will put in the up and comers/prelim guys and not just the top fighters.

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+6 # Combo_Breaker 2012-07-28 15:47

All they have to worry about is getting more technical with the ground game and add more striking variety and thump to their punches that's it. And do away with the cookie cutter fighter thing. I'm sure the new engine will help with that.

But then there's always innovation, since this is an almost spiritual successor to the greatest mma game of all time ea mma; so adding things like that awesome fight card live system and Pride FC along with BAM The Ultimate Fighter as a story line or side feature...holy shi- we could be looking at the newest GMMAGOAT. I'm excited as all hell.

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