EA has slowly been rolling out information on the upcoming EA Sports UFC. The MMA fighting game is starting to shape up to be something that could be a nice tide-over throughout the slow summer software drought, especially for the next-gen consoles.

Before getting into the whole grappling spiel, there's something definitely worth discussing: the reaction animations and graphics.

Fighting games are only as immersive as the characters' reactions, and EA Sports UFC puts an impeccable amount of focus on the strikes and the way the fighters react to those strikes.

Also, there are a lot of small nuances in the character model animations, where you see the muscular reactions - that kind of detail just really screams realism and helps propel the game above the standard fighting game outing that we've been fed over the past couple of years.

And the graphics are just amazing. The graphics for the EA Sports UFC game looks undoubtedly better than any fighting game to date and you can even say that it looks better than some PC games when it comes to realism.

Over on Good Game Bro they have an extensive preview of the game's early career mode, but unfortunately we don't find out if a practice like Judo can be used to completely discombobulate and incapacitate an opponent like in the early UFC tournaments.

Hopefully we'll get to see how some of the other practices play and interact with each other in future video releases. I would also love to see how a full-on boxer can operate in EA Sports UFC, because if you could keep and maintain your footing, how devastating can you be as a boxer? I would love to try that out.

You can look for EA Sports UFC to launch on the Xbox One and the PlayStation in June 17, 2014.