The cover art for the upcoming UFC 2009 Undisputed video game by THQ has been revealed. Most MMA fans in the United States will get Forest Griffin as their cover boy.
March 13, 2009 – THQ and Zuffa today announced that Forrest Griffin has been tapped to appear on the worldwide cover of UFC 2009 Undisputed. Griffin is a former light heavyweight champion after winning his UFC contract on Spike TV “The Ultimate Fighter” reality show in 2005.
Canada will see a special cover that will only be available to Canucks. It features Georges St-Pierre, a Quebec native. St-Pierre is currently the welterweight champion and was recently named Canada’s Athlete of the Year for 2008.
“Forrest Griffin and Georges St-Pierre helped elevate UFC to the place we are today,” said Dana White, president, UFC. “We are confident that these two fighters’ many strengths both inside and outside the Octagon will have the same effect on UFC 2009 Undisputed as we prepare for the game’s worldwide launch on May 19.”
Both versions of UFC 2009 Undisputed will ship on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on May 19. We’ll have the GSP box art exclusively on IGN at a later date.
Personally, it looks like I’ll have to have some of my friends north of the border in Canada hook me up with a copy of the Georges St. Pierre version.
The game currently has a tentative release date of June 2, 2009.
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nice, i had a feeling they were gonna put Forrest on the cover but thats kick asss that i’ll be able to get GSP. i hope they have a cool collectors edition too, one that comes with a UFC DVD and a GSP bobble head or something.
You’d think that if they were going to put a CGI Forrest on the cover, they’d at least make him less ugly….
UFC…. AS REAL AS IT GETS!!! LOL
ok so i was reading a Q & A with the makers of the game and i found out some cool stuff. they didnt say how it’ll works with a ref stopping a fight because of things like ground and pound but they did say there will be those moments where the guy goes down in a heap (KOed) and you still pounce and give them 2 or 3 more good ones before the ref tackles you. there will be two different ways to escape submissions #1 brute strength, where you power out and if done right you both end up standing again #2 technical counter (if your grappling skill is high enough) where you would perform the same movements with the (right) stick as the guy trying to submit you and it will counter the hold and get you to a better position. there was some other cool stuff too but that was the stuff that stood out for me.
i hope this game is good its looking like its coming along good but im worried thq will **** up the ju juitsu portion of the game….. like they’ll make it way to complicated or something.
everything else looks good but they better get working on more fighters, they only have like 25 confirmed out of what thq said will be over 80
and if thq doesn’t put jason macdonald in the game i’ll snap…. im from nova scotia and that would be awesome if a fellow nova scotian is in the game