An inside look into EA Sports UFC 2 with series director Brian Hayes

Among the hardest things about rebooting a video game license as big as the UFC's is building a new foundation from the ground-up. Developer EA Canada experienced that hurdle last year. The team, led by executive producer and creative director Brian Hayes, had no choice but to scrap the gameplay and design elements that had been exhaustively molded over three previous generations of games by now-defunct publisher THQ, and begin anew on the latest generation of consoles under a new franchise umbr