THQ taps out UFC 2009 details

It's been well over a year since THQ announced its plans to make Ultimate Fighting Championship games, but the only details known about the publisher's first entry into the Octagon were that it would arrive on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in the spring of 2009. Today the publisher revealed a few more specifics about the game, including the full title and first features.

When it arrives next year, UFC 2009 Undisputed will feature more than 80 licensed fighters pulled from all five of the league's weight classes. For players who can't find the perfect combatant in that roster, THQ is including a create-a-fighter option as well as a career mode to help take a rookie scrub all the way to the UFC Hall of Fame.

The game's visuals won't be limited to two fighters squaring off in a cage, as THQ is promising to surround the fighters with trainers, commentators, announcers, refs, and ring girls, to name a few. Finally UFC 2009 will also support downloadable content, though what form that will take has yet to be revealed.

While THQ remains cagey on who is developing the UFC's return to consoles, it has confirmed to GameSpot that Russia studio G5 is creating the mobile-phone version of the game. The same group is also working on mobile adaptations of upcoming THQ titles Red Faction 3 and Saints Row 2.