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Def Jam: Fight for NY is the sequel of Def Jam Vendetta, a hip hop-influenced 3D fighting game released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. The game features several rappers, including Method Man, Snoop Dogg, and Busta Rhymes, as well as the voices and likeness of other actors and celebrities, among them actor Omar Epps, punk rocker Henry Rollins, and Kimora Lee Simmons.

Gameplay

The gameplay is expanded from the original game, which was primarily a wrestling game. Fighters can choose from up to five styles, and many fighters have more than one.

  • Styles
    • Street Fighting Blazin' Move: Street Sweeper
    • Kickboxing Blazin' Move: Foot for Breakfast
    • Martial Arts Blazin' Move: Art of Pain
    • Wrestling Blazin' Move: Springboard
    • Submissions Blazin' Move: Snap N' Crackle

The game emphasizes strikes (punches and kicks) more, as well as proper use of the arena's environment and the surrounding crowd. Tossing the opponent against the wall (or other barriers/obstacles) gives fighters the opportunity to inflict massive damage to their opponent by tossing or slamming them into the wall headfirst, or using other features of the environment, such as slamming a door or gate on their head.

The crowd will shove a fighter back into combat if he is thrown into them or gets too close, and will sometimes hold a fighter, leaving them open to attack. Some spectators carry weapons, and will offer them to a fighter with enough momentum, or even attack a fighter if the guy next to them holds him.

Momentum is gained by successfully performing moves (repeated moves gain less momentum), countering, and taunting the opponent. The rate at which momentum is gained is effected by the fighter's Charisma, which is set for most fighters. Created fighters can set their own charisma with a combination of clothes, tattoos, and jewelry; the more expensive, the better. A fighter with a good set of clothes, extensive tattoos, or laden with bling can often fill their momentum meter in just a few moves.

When the momentum meter is full, a fighter can activate it, which results in a Blazin' Taunt (a dramatic shout of rage and a graphical fire effect on the meter). In this state, the fighter is said to be "Blazin", and can pull off a Blazin' Move, a powerful and brutal attack personalized for each character. A created character can learn every single Blazin' Move in the game, but can only have up to four usable at any one time.

With the focus taken from wrestling, the only way to win a fight is through Knock Out or Submission. A character can be made to submit by putting them into submission holds until the health bar of a single body part (legs, arms, etc...) is depleted. A character can be knocked out in many ways, but cannot be knocked out until their life meter is flashing red:

  • Haymaker Punch (Street Fighting).
  • Strike Combo (Kickboxing).
  • Flying Attack (Martial Arts).
  • Slam (Wrestling).
  • Slammed against a wall or other obstacle.
  • Struck with a weapon.
  • Double teamed by the opponent and a spectator.
  • Hit by a Blazin' Move.
  • Some stages have special ways of defeating opponents, such as throwing them into the path of a moving train.

Story Mode

Follows the narrative of a created character fighting his way through the New York Underground. Winning matches rewards the player with cash, which can be used in different shops to buy clothes, haircuts, tattoos, and jewelry (from Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo), as well as Development points, which can be used at the local gym (run by Rollins) to increase your fighter's skills, or to purchase and set up new Blazin' Moves and up to two additional fighting styles.

Winning matches also unlocks the fighters you defeat, as well as their Blazin' Move, and often the jewelry they may wear. You can have the jewelery of Sean Paul, Crack (Fat Joe), Xzibit, Crazy Legs, Lil' Flip, Def Jam Records, Rockafella Records, State Property, and many others (except for some particular signature pieces such as the medallions worn by Ghostface Killah and Flava Flav), the fighters may be used in Battle Mode, while their moves and jewelry may be purchased and used by the player.

Battle Mode

Battle Mode is the versus mode of the game, allowing up to four players to fight at once. It has several sub-modes:

  • One on One - A single match between two fighters.
  • Team Match - A two on two brawl that ends only when both fighters on a team are knocked out or submit.
  • Free For All - A match between three or four fighters, where it's every man or woman for themselves.
  • Cage Match - No crowd interference, but the cage itself can be used to attack the opponent.
  • Ring Out Match - The wooden barriers lining the ring can eventually be broken, and the match is won by throwing the opponent through the resulting gap.
  • Inferno Match - A battle in a burning building. Contact with the ring of fire damages fighters immediately. In addition, bits of flaming debris will sometimes fall from the ceiling.
  • Demolition Match - Two SUVs form part of the arena, and fighters can use each other to mess them up. The match can end by totaling the opponent's car, (Player 1 - Black Cadillac Escalade) (Player 2/CPU - Green Hummer).
  • Subway Match - Fight in a Subway terminal. At regular intervals, a train will roll past. Fighters can be thrown or knocked off the platform, and into the path of the train, if you time it correctly. Naturally, throwing your opponent into the path of a moving train takes them out of the fight immediately, no matter how much health they have.
  • Window Match - Three large windows line one side of the arena, and a four-story drop awaits the person slammed through one of them.

Story

The game's story picks up immediately after the first game. D-Mob, the underworld boss from the first game, has just been arrested, when the car transporting him gets broadsided by an SUV. The SUV's driver (you) rescues D-Mob from police custody and drives off. The player then helps D-Mob hold on to his territory, various nightclubs, and the underground fighting circut that gathers there, from a rival boss named Crow (Snoop Dogg).

Unlike the four pre-set characters from Vendetta, the player is allowed to create his own character, in a sequence where the cops who lost D-Mob are asked to describe the player to a police sketch artist. The player can also choose between several voice types as well, unlike the hero(es) of Vendetta, who were silent through all the cutscenes.

At first, two of D-Mob's lieutenants, Blaze (Method Man) and Sticky Fingaz, are doubtful of the player's skills. The player then selects from five fighting styles, and sets out to prove himself. As he fights, the player begins challenging and taking clubs from Crow, who begins to grow increasingly upset with your victories.

During the game, the player can gain a girlfriend (after fighting for her), and later, she ends up in a catfight with Carmen Electra over him. The player can then choose to keep his current girl, or switch to Electra (a good idea, if you lost the first match).

Soon after, D-Mob arranges a match against the legendary Ice-T to prove yourself to the rest of his crew.

Eventually, he and D-Mob arrange a match against Crack (Fat Joe), one of Crow's best fighters. The player wins, but as he, Blaze, and D-Mob are celebrating in their limo, a car drives alongside, and gunfire erupts from the window. D-Mob and Blaze are injured, and Sticky, who participated in the attack, is revealed to have joined up with Crow. After a fight against Trejo, the player returns to the limo, where D-Mob orders him and Blaze to escape from the rapidly-approaching police.

D-Mob is arrested, and Blaze takes over in his stead, using the player and Blaze's friend Doc (Redman, who until now had been sleeping the whole time) to take all of Crow's clubs in retaliation. During this time, the player fights in a team tournament, and must choose between two fighters whose respect he earned early in his career: Ice-T and O.E. (Omar Epps). The fighter he passes over then joins forces with Magic (Busta Rhymes), Crow's right-hand man.

Crow continually tries to get the player to join forces with him, but fails. Finally, he resorts to kidnapping the player's girlfriend and forcing him to retake all the clubs, one by one, an apparent betrayal that angers the rest of D-Mob's crew. Crow warns the player that if he tells anyone the real reason for his change of sides (to keep his girlfriend alive), Crow will kill her anyway.

With the last club won in a fight against Doc (in which Blaze takes D-Mob's Pendent from him), Crow claims to have one final task for the player. The scene is moved to an empty scrapyard, where the player finds Blaze brutally beaten, the final task being to finish him off. The player refuses, and knocks out WC. He and Blaze then battle Crack and Magic.

After the fight, the player learns where his girlfriend is being held, and that Crow never planned on letting her live. He and Blaze rush over to an abandoned factory, where Sticky is about to set the entire building on fire. The player fights him in the burning building, but his girlfriend is badly injured from exposure to the smoke and heat.

The player and Blaze confront Crow at his headquarters, backed up by Crack and WC, whose respect they earned, and the rest of D-Mob's crew, whom Blaze had cleared the player's good name with. As a rumble breaks out with Crow's gang, the player rushes to face Crow in a final showdown. After a brief stand off involving a gun, Crow stabs you in the back with a dagger. After the battle, Crow is thrown through the window and to his death. Blaze gives the player back D-Mob's Pendant for restoring order to the code, and they escape as the police arrive.

Cast

Awards

E3 2004 Game Critics Awards: Best Fighting Game

External links

2004 computer and video games | 2005 computer and video games | Versus fighting games | PlayStation 2 games | GameCube games | Xbox games | Cancelled Game Boy Advance games

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