UFC: Throwdown (full title: Ultimate Fighting Championship: Throwdown) known in Japan as UFC 2: Tapout (UFC2 ?????? UFC2 Tappuauto) on the PlayStation 2 and UFC 2 Tapout Final Spec. (UFC2 ?????? ????????? UFC2 Tappuauto Fainaru Supekku) on the GameCube is a video game of the fighting game genre released in 2002 by Opus. The game is based on the Ultimate Fighting Championship. There are five different game modes; "Career" "UFC Mode" "Arcade" "Tournament" and "Exhibition". Career mode involves creating a fighter giving him a fighting style completing a number of "skill challenges" to build up his attributes then winning five sparring matches before you can enter an eight-man tournament. After the tournament is over the player picks a new fighting style to learn and completes the same process until it has been done five times.