MMA fans love to watch the action on TV but cannot join in on the action. The UFC video games provide a much-needed avenue for fans to become pound-for-pound best fighters. EA Sports™ UFC® 5 game currently serves the fanbase in that aspect. Now, color commentator Jon Anik revealed the next EA Sports UFC® 6 installment might be hitting the shelves of fight nerds soon!
EA Sports UFC® 5 had a revamped damage system, alongside custom cutscenes and realistic combat renders. It was as close as people got to feeling themselves in that scintillating KO serving feeling. EA Sports UFC 6 is just around the corner with a potential 2025 release date. Jon Anik teased that he had already started voiceovers.
So, the video game is insane. So, EA Sports UFC 3 was the last game I did with [Joe] Rogan; I didn’t do any voicing with him in studio, I did 92 hours solo…Then, Daniel Cormier took over for EA Sports UFC 4. We did 80 hours…But it’s a lot of repetition, …it was like, ‘She weighed in at 115 pounds, her opponent weighed in at 115 pounds.’ But we’re onto EA Sports UFC 6…
Jon Anik on the @SDAWGMMATALK Podcast, ‘Special Guest: UFC COMMENTATOR JON ANIK’ [EPISODE 33]
There were many initial bugs in sluggish progress. However, since then, UFC® 5 has outshone expectations. It also promotes perpetuity royalty-based payments for merch sold under the UFC Promotional Guidelines Compliance program’s payout tiers and cover-athlete promotions. The game also adds fight week downloadables, skins, and so on.
Jon Anik dropped news on @SDAWGSMMATALK Podcast today that they’ve started recording voice overs for EA Sports UFC 6 🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/A6IXHSnR2I
— Jordain 🏴 (@McDainMMA) October 9, 2024
This year’s Noche Pay-per-view, UFC 304, and others saw custom kits added as skins. Legacy skin packs were also available, as usual. EA Sports™ UFC® 6 will expectedly have even better customization and outfitting mechanics for fight weeks. Realizing what Anik had just said, SDAWGSMMATALK exclaimed as he broke the news on UFC® 6. Anik even gave a brief insight about recording for the sensational games.
UFC® 5 was a haven for fight nerds with stat building, matchmaking fighters in prime, playing what-if scenarios, donning legacy skins, and so on. The fun of more realistic gameplay damage and scenarios employs an ESRB Mature (M) rating but makes it thoroughly enjoyable. UFC® 5 had immense collections of KO/doctor stoppage cutscenes, along with fight transitions.
One constant part that has provided value to fighting scenarios in-game is the commentary. While some of the veteran voiceover recordings are from telecasts, the 46-year-old has done pretty live ones as well for consoles. Joe Rogan and Daniel Cormier have joined Jon Anik as the pay-per-view commentary trinity for games. Anik describes what it is like to record it all.
Some of the content that is in-game they can mime from a UFC telecast. So, they can actually get the real calls. Sometimes, we’ll have a video in front of us that we are talking to, whether it’s a specific cut sequence or specific strikes…so, we’ll not be watching actual UFC fights, but actually in-video game content, so people actually playing against each other, so they can isolate a specific sequence. Sometimes, we’ll be watching actual footage, and I might have to call Conor McGregor’s knockout of Jose Aldo…
Jon Anik further said
The micsman said sometimes, while recalibrating the hye around old KOs, he has to be careful not actually to throw his voice. Hence, sometimes, he even has to do homework, watch specific sequences and finishers, or even people playing to comment on it. Case in point, some sequences do garner special reactions.
These little parcels make up for such a big gaming experience, and by his bombshell drop, UFC® 6 is already a step closer! The upcoming installment already has quite a wishlist on the forums and is garnering attention. However, there is no release date yet. When it does come out, the next UFC video game installment will surely kick up quite a storm.
