Consoles winning the fight over PCs

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The International Fighting Championship: Throwdown combines boxing and martial arts in an attempt to beat your opponent.

Ultimate Fighting Championship: Throwdown http://www.ufcvideogame.com/
Developer: Crave Entertainment http://www.cravegames.com/
Publisher Ubi Soft Entertainment http://www.ubisoft.com

If there is one area of gaming that a console outperforms its PC cousins, it is in fighting games.

Not since the heyday of the Commodore 64 have kung-fu fighting games been popular on home computers.

Consoles, with their couch approach to gaming, are to get everyone on the couch in front of a TV and kick the crap out of each other over a couple of beers.

Ultimate Fighting Championship is the perfect scenario to further the console’s domain.

Based on a pay TV show that has until recently been shown in Australia, competitors use mixed martial arts to beat each other senseless.

It has all of the spectacle of World Championship Wrestling but none of the choreography and pre-planned outcomes.

It rates as one of the most violent fighting games around — there are no unrealistic special spells or magic moves, it is just bone-crunching kicking, punching and throwing on a canvas mat.

This will no doubt become an in-barracks lunch hour favourite when Jerry gets too much.

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