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Unusual twist of hip-hop and wrestling, but it works!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: October 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

A year after the out-of-the-blue sucess of Def Jam Vendetta, EA Games releases, Def Jam Fight For NY, with similiar results. Def Jam Fight For NY is an excellent wrestling game with tons of replay value, and a cool hip-hop influenced storyline to boot.

Notice how I referred to the game as a "wrestling" game? Unlike the game suggests, Def Jam Fight For NY is predominantly a WRESTLING game. The fighting system is based upon performing grapples and simple strikes, and performing combos and special moves. With so many moves to choose from and unlock, the fighting system is suprisingly deep, but the fights get just a bit repetitive after a while.

Def Jam Fight For NY story mode begins when D-Mob is being taken away by the boys in blue, when suddenly, a mysterious car topples the police cruiser and allows D-Mob to escape. The driver of the mysterious car, as you soon learn, is you, and you then create the appearance of your character using a police composite sketch, a pretty clever way to create your character. D-Mob then asks you to join their force of fighters to try and take over the whole fighting circuit of the city.

There are over 40 Def Jam labelmates appearing in the game, all appearing fighters in the game. Snoop Dogg, the Top Dogg (naturally) of the opposing gang, with Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe and many others on his side, while your crew consists of the likes of Method Man, Redman and a few others. As the story progresses and you win fights, you can earn cash to spend on new clothes for your character, supplied by urban name-brands like Sean John, State Property, Joker, Enyce, and Ecko to name a few, new hairstyles for you character, tattoos, shoes, and many other accessories for you character to rock, and of course, there are many others to unlock as you progress through the story.

The story mode is long and deep, with a compelling story complete with story twists, and takes a lengthy 8 hours of play to complete. Of course, once you beat the story mode, you'll be coming back for more. As usual, there are many hip-hop tunes included in the game, courtesy of Def Jam of course, and multiplayer action is also included. Fans of wrestling, wrestling games, or hip-hop would find this game very appealing.

Blazin'

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

BLAZING UP THE CHARTS...
Well, Def Jam Vendetta is back, but, this time, it's "The Fight for New York"... This game has it all... A great storymode, an awesome multiplayer mode, and more options than you'll know what to do with...
You can create your own character and guide him through different levels/events that will score you money/experience points/girlfriends/etc... You can use your money/experience points to unlock new characters/levels, bling bling ; ), secret moves, etc. This game is very deep, and it will keep you busy for a while, trying to unlock everything... The difficulty level is adjustable, so, you will not get bored fighting at the same level... The control is great, the player models are seamless, and the levels are well laid out... I highly recommend this game for anyone who is a fan of wrestling/fighting games/or just the hip hop industry in general. (so you can fight as your favorite entertainer)

WHOOP DAT A**

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: February 01, 2005
Author: Amazon User

1st i have to say that i didnt think i was going to like this game much....BOY,WAS I WRONG!! i definitely fell in love with this game after spending 1 hour "building" my player (skin color,face shape,eye color, body/height,ect). i also liked the story line which really hyped me up to play this even more. the controls take a bit of practice to get used to, after dat, its all good!! the moves are dope, the music is dope,ect!if you need to lets out some pent-up aggression.....THIS IS THE BEST WAY OF DOING IT!!

UNBELIEVABLE

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 08, 2006
Author: Amazon User

this is one of tha best games i ever played. its so addicting!!
when i first brought it home i just thought i would try it out to see what its like for a couple minutes and tha next thing i kno its like 3 hours later. for tha story, u gotta create a character first, then go to different fights to earn money for clothes, jewelry, tattoos, etc. they got a pretty good selection also. u also earn points to either improve your skills or learn a new technique so u can do certain things u couldnt do before. u even get to chose a gf... a good selection there too. just tha story alone is great and definitly worth tha money u pay for tha game.

an besides that theres also just an arcade-type mode which is also great. there are many different rappers u can chose from, having a pretty good selection with rappers such as capone, joe budden, scarface, sticky fingaz, xzibit, prodigy, havoc, nore....

altogether, i highly recommend this game to anybody.

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: September 23, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've just gotten this game and it is awesome. what the most cool thing about it is you're not in the ring. you can choose to be in a train station, burning warehouse, ect. Right now my favorite fighters are ludacris, bubba sparxxx, and proffesional break dancer crazy legs. i recommend it to all people who like fighting games!

mike

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: October 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game u will ever play it has a whole bunch of your favroite charters

Looks Phat

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: June 28, 2004
Author: Amazon User

this game looks phat man. they have tons of new rappers in it including bubba sparxxx,snoop dogg,busta ryhmes,xzibit and freeway. they also have rappers from the first one like ludacris, method,and redman. i hope they have DMX back(he is my favorite rapper.) even though he's had trouble with def jam lately. they have close to 40 rapppers in this game, while the first one had i think only 12. in this one they have a rapper as the bad guy (snoop dogg) instead of the first one where they had a made up bad guy(d-mob). i know i'm gonna get this when it comes out!

Fye as hell

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: June 15, 2004
Author: Amazon User

You know what im saying,the game gone be fye as hell,cause meth gone be on there busta gone be on the sean paul? ooo it gone be off the hook yall betta go cop dat.ANd ya know something,imma go get it my damn self,AND I GONE BE THE KANG!!

My son is upset

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 8
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game was sold to me saying it was in good condition, but when we put the game in it says the game disc can not be read.So my son can not even play the game.

Limited appeal

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 13
Date: October 19, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Once you finish Def Jam: Fight for NY there's not much reason to go back to it. But as a VS game it's one of the best. I'm so sick and tired of utterly endless Tekken/MK/Soul Calibre/etc variations with effects and moves that are far too fantastical. Def Jam gives us real, bloody, bone-crunching action with characters we know and recognize from real life. For those of you who like this simple form of gameplay I urge you to get this game above all.

The Pros:

Amazing graphics.
Simply GREAT music.
Grim satisfaction in breaking an opponents bones.
Cool finishing moves and slo-mo shots.
Involving cut-scenes.
Gorgeous girls.
Henry Rollins.

The Cons:

Incredibly linear story progression.
Far too many long loading times.
Massive range of clothing that differs little.
Same for tattoos.
And jewelery.
Weapons too difficult to pick up (if you stand over it and hit the pick-up button your character will often foolishly grab at a non-nearby opponent instead of the weapon).
Poor crowd animation.
No opportunity to customize player name, resulting in bland text when other fighters have cool fonts and logos.
Repetitive gameplay.
Playing areas are not big enough.
Could have been gorier.
No reason given for main characters motivations/involvement.

It took me just over a week to finish this game. And once it's over there's no point in going on unless your playing head to head with a pal. But at that point you're likely to be so advanced in your stats you'll make easy work of them.

Rent this game.

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