I'm usually good at conveying images with text, but this is a concept best explained with visual proof. The way fighters flop to the mat after eating the clinching blows generates "oohs" and squeals. If you've never heard that word before, it's because I just made it up. When a guy or girl (yes, the women's weight classes are included in KO mode, but they can't fight the men) gets dropped, their crumpling bodies hit the canvas in a manner that is best described as: "cartoolistic." Lastly, but most important in this particularly satisfying guilty pleasure, is the rag-doll effect. Again, this adds to the drama and effect of each knockout. One or two shots draw blood and induce swelling on the mugs of the fighters on the business end of punches and kicks. The facial damage is accelerated in KO mode, just like the damage that comes from each strike. Zooming in and out, speeding up or slowing down the KO would've made the aftermath all the more gratifying. To nitpick, it would've been nice to have the option to control the replays. It makes the devastation and evasion all the more spectacular. You can usually see exactly how strikes landed and missed their targets. The first part of this trifecta is best appreciated during the slow-motion replays of your knockout. You might be thinking: "what makes these knockouts so cool?" The answer to that is: the physics engine, facial damage and rag-doll effect. The recreations of fighters in the latest version have only built on the foundation established back in 2014. The renders in the original already held that crown in my book. Believe me, that's not an overstatement or an example of someone who's a prisoner of the moment. To put it plain, EA Sports UFC 2 has the best player models in the history of sports video games. The game's entire 250-plus fighter roster is available to use in KO Mode and each is rendered with extraordinary detail. However, for cheap thrills that'll keep you saying: "one more fight," the KO Mode is the feature that is likely to resonate with a larger audience. All of those feature offer a more realistic take on the sport. The game has other features, including: Ultimate Team, a career mode, online championships, an awesome event creation option (which I'll examine more closely in later posts) and exhibition matches.