It's hard to deny the appeal of a fighting game with this much street cred. Featuring no less than forty celebrities packed into the game, a fighting feel that's unique and all its own, and a serious dedication to game length, Def Jam: Fight For NY is a great game. With the only serious flaws being an interface that impedes versus play, and a learning curve the likes of which I've never seen before, this title excels even in spite of its shortcomings.
The most robust gameplay mode is that of the single player campaign, where you make a custom fighter, pick his primary fighting style, and then outfit him with tight threads and a serious amount of bling. You'll be trained by none other than Henry Rollins, and schooled in the ways of hardcore street fighting. Each fighter you make can be customized with literally hundreds of unlockable items, from all manner of bling to a complete wardrobe and set of full body tattoos. Most definitely, the ability to customize your game avatar is one of the more impressive elements in this game, and it even has a game impact, as your use of bling determines how much the crowd likes your fight, letting you get powerful finishing moves off more often. Additionally, the single player campaign is quite long, which it needs to be, because the interface isn't tweaked correctly to satisfy hardcore multiplayer.
- The Def Jam video game series is one of the most famous for its cult following, and these masses of fans have made it clear that they want a new game on PlayStation 4 and other modern consoles.
- Def Jam: Rapstar came out back in 2010, but it was an actual rapping game which required complete shamelessness, a lack of self-awareness and a microphone. Fans of the series may want to keep an.
On the other side of the fence, this game has a really worthwhile fight engine that only suffers from two major problems. First, the controls aren't quite sloppy, but if the countering and blocking system were a bit tighter, it'd be significantly easier. Second, and this somewhat exists because of the first, this game has a ridiculous learning curve, one that took me several hours to get adjusted to. Until such a time as you can keep the momentum of a fight in your favor, and learn to deal with opponents that block and grapple effectively, you'll encounter frustration after frustration. Not an endearing trait in my book.
Game Def Jam - could be a excellent fighting game wherever the sport tells U.S. As players should be variety one fighter within the world, during this game we tend to ar asked to make a personality that later we will play it within the next step. We tend to fight during this game move to maneuver from place to position another one, this can be what makes this game isn't boring, besides this game conjointly encompasses a terribly nice graphics. Warranted deh friend not going nyesel transfer.
A custom soundtrack and some truly righteous graphics finish this title's impressive pedigree of features. If you can deal with controls that aren't optimal, and take some getting used to, you may like this title. Remember that this isn't Def Jam: Vendetta, and doesn't suffer its problems, but in fact has a set of its very own. That said, I had a great deal of fun with this game, and I'd recommend it to anyone.
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Overall rating: 9
Def Jam Recordings has been asking its social media followers what they want from a new game, leading some to believe a new Def Jam Vendetta sequel might be in the works.On Twitter, the record label first asked fans which modern star they'd like to see on the cover of a hypothetical new Def Jam Vendetta, before following that up by asking which city they'd like to see as a setting, in the style of sequel Fight for NY:New Def Jam Game Ps4
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— Def Jam Recordings (@defjam) June 29, 2018The Def Jam series began with Vendetta in 2003, followed by Fight for NY in 2004, and Def Jam Icon in 2007. Each game differed somewhat, with the common thread being that real-life hip-hop stars would be pitted against each other in fights.
As pointed out by GameInformer, any potential new game would be unlikely to come from Vendetta and Fight for NY developer Aki, which has since renamed itself Syn Sophia and pivoted out of wrestling games to make Nintendo's Style Savvy series.
Vendetta in particular is something of a cult classic, so it'd certainly be a popular move if Def Jam dipped its toe into video games again. Back in 2003, we said it 'represents both the culture and the clash to the highest degree', awarding it an 8.9 review.Joe Skrebels is IGN's UK News Editor, and he wants a Kendrick Lamar Kung Fu Kenny game. Follow him on Twitter.