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2004 video game

Def Jam: Fight for NY

Developer(southward)	AKI Corporation EA Canada
Publisher(s)	EA Games
Producer(south)	Josh Holmes Hideyuki Iwashita Lauren Wirtzer
Developer(s)	Jorge Freitas Hiro Abe
Artist(due south)	Daryl Anselmo Hiroya Tamura
Writer(south)	Marking Sawers Douglas Barber
Platform(s)	PlayStation ii, GameCube, Xbox
Release	NA: September 21, 2004 EU: Oct 1, 2004 JP: September 24, 2005 (PS2)
Genre(due south)	Fighting
Style(southward)	Single-player, multiplayer

Def Jam: Fight for NY is a hip hop-influenced activity video game published past EA Games (unlike the original, which was published under the EA Sports BIG make). Information technology was released on September 21, 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. It is a sequel to Def Jam Vendetta and is followed by Def Jam: Icon. The game features several rappers, including Lil' Kim, Snoop Dogg, Method Human being, Redman, Fat Joe, Mobb Deep, Ice-T, Xzibit, N.O.R.E, Ludacris, Crazy Legs and Busta Rhymes, Flavor Flav, Sean Paul as well equally the voices and likeness of other celebrities, such as Henry Rollins, Christopher Approximate, Carmen Electra, Bubba Sparxxx and Kimora Lee Simmons. The only artists from the original game that did non appear in the sequel were DMX, Keith Murray, Christina Milian and Funkmaster Flex. The game was spun off into a 2006 PlayStation Portable game called Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover.

Gameplay [edit]

The gameplay is expanded from the original game, which was primarily a wrestling game. Fighters tin can cull one, two, or three of 5 fighting styles. The fighting styles are Streetfighting, Kickboxing, Martial Arts, Wrestling and Submissions.

Additionally, Def Jam Fight for NY emphasizes the utilise of the game'southward various environments and the surrounding oversupply to cause damage. Tossing the opponent confronting barriers gives fighters an opportunity to inflict massive damage to their opponent by slamming them into the wall headfirst, ramming a door or gate in their face, or using other features of the surround. The oversupply will shove a fighter back into combat if he is thrown into them or gets too close, sometimes holding a fighter and leaving them open to assault. Some spectators carry weapons, and will offer them to the fighters, or fifty-fifty attack a fighter if they are held by a nearby onlooker.

Momentum is gained by successfully performing moves, countering, and taunting the opponent. The rate at which momentum is gained is afflicted by the fighter's Charisma stat, which like other stats varies betwixt fighters. Created fighters can gear up their own charisma with a combination of clothes, tattoos, and jewelry; the more expensive, the ameliorate. A fighter with a good prepare of clothes, extensive tattoos, or laden with jewellery tin can oftentimes 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. In this state, the fighter is said to be "Blazin", and tin can pull off a Blazin' Motility, a powerful and brutal attack personalized for each graphic symbol. A created graphic symbol can learn every single Blazin' Move in the game, merely can only have upwardly to four usable at any in one case.

Though the game focuses on mixed fighting styles, the only fashion to win a fight is through Knock Out or Submission. A character can be made to submit past putting them into submission holds until the health bar of a single body part is depleted.

Knock Out is achieved through a unique health bar used in the game. Health is equanimous of 2 confined, the outset bar representing a fighter's consciousness and power to fight (Displayed as an opaque calorie-free light-green), while underneath it is the fighter'southward physical wellness bar (Displayed as a semi transparent dark green). With every hitting, a fighter's consciousness will autumn quicker than his/her physical health. However, whenever a fighter is not losing health, their consciousness meter volition recover upwardly to the maximum current physical wellness. When a fighter'southward consciousness is lowered to a very low point, the entire health bar will plough cerise. This indicates that the fighter is in danger of being knocked out. Knocking out an opponent in danger requires the use of strong hits, Blazin' Moves, and environmental moves such as slamming an opponent into the wall, or achieving a double team motion with a crowd member, or using a weapon (like a pipe, a bottle, a wooden bat, a shovel, etc.). It is possible to knock out an opponent past beating down their wellness while their physical health remains very high. As a fight wears on, physical wellness volition eventually fall low enough that when a fighter'due south consciousness recovers to the physical limit, it is withal as well depression to turn dark-green. This is sometimes known as permanent danger, significant a fighter is permanently in danger of being knocked out.

Additionally, each fighting style has a unique style to knock out opponents in danger: streetfighters can attack with a strong punch; wrestlers can perform a strong grapple; kickboxers can complete a kick-philharmonic; submission experts can force the enemy to submit with grapples; and martial artists can perform flying attacks.

Story Mode [edit]

The game's story mode follows the narrative of an unknown, thespian-created fighter, who is fighting his mode through the New York Underground. Winning matches rewards the player with cash, which tin be used in shops to purchase dress which include famous clothes lines such as Reebok, Phat Subcontract, Air Jordan, Sean John and many other wearable lines. Equally well as wearing apparel, the fighter can get haircuts, tattoos, and jewelry from Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo, every bit well as Development points, which can be used at the local gym, run by Henry Rollins, to increase the character'southward skills, or to purchase and set up new Blazin' Moves and up to two additional fighting styles.

Winning matches too unlocks clubs and the fighters defeated, as well equally their Blazin' Move, and often the jewelry they may wear. Created characters can have the jewelry of Sean Paul, Crack (Fat Joe), Xzibit, Crazy Legs, Lil' Flip, Def Jam Recordings, Roc-A-Fella Records, State Property, and many others (except for some detail signature pieces such every bit the medallions worn past Flavour Flav or alter information technology like Ghostface Killah'south Sun God Plate Gold and Diamond slice), the fighters may exist used in Battle Mode, while their moves and jewelry may be purchased and used by the player.

Characters [edit]

The game features 67 playable characters, including existent-life hip hop artists signed to Def Jam at the time, equally well as original characters.

D-Mob's Crew	Crow's Coiffure	Excursion Fighters
Capone Comp D-Mob Erick Sermon Flavor Flav Pike Ghostface Killah Henry Rollins Joe Budden Ludacris Memphis Bleek Method Homo (as Blaze) Northward.O.R.East. Redman (as Doc) Scarface Sticky Fingaz WC	Baby Chris David Banner Bless Bone Crusher Bubba Sparxxx Busta Rhymes (equally Magic) Crazy Legs Elephant Man Fam-Lay Fat Joe (every bit Crack) Havoc Water ice-T Lil' Flip Mack 10 Omar Epps (as O.E.) Prodigy Sean Paul Slick Rick Snoop Dogg (equally Crow) Trejo Warren One thousand Xzibit	John mark Bo Carmen Electra Chiang Cindy J Cruz Dan G House Jacob Jervis Kimora Lauren Lil' Kim Manny Masa Meca Nyne	Pockets Rome Santos Shaniqua Shawnna Skull Snowman Solo Starks Stingray Super Teck Fox

Story [edit]

The game takes identify immediately after Def Jam Vendetta. D-Mob (Chris Judge) is arrested by NYPD cops Starks and Jervis and placed in the back of their cop car when an SUV hits it, causing it to flip over on its dorsum. D-Mob crawls out of the wreckage and boards the SUV as Starks catches a glimpse of the doubtable earlier passing out. He later describes his appearance to Lauren. The doubtable becomes the game's protagonist, named The Hero.

At his house, Bonfire (Method Man) and Sticky Fingaz are playing video games. Praising The Hero for rescuing him, D-Mob tells Blaze and Sticky that he'south in simply the duo wants to run across him fight. After defeating House, Bonfire becomes impressed but Pasty is unimpressed. D-Mob then gives the Hero money to start fresh and begins scheduling fights for him. Wanted by the cops, Blaze gives The Hero a safehouse to stay in hiding. The Hero then begins to defeat numerous fighters, gaining notoriety later on defeating O.East. (Omar Epps). O.Due east.'s defeat impresses D-Mob's fighter Ludacris. Later The Hero defeats a fighter from The Limit, Bonfire tells him that four female fighters are interested in him (Cindy J, Kimora Lee, Lil' Kim and Shawnna). When The Hero approaches one of them, their boyfriend Nyne attacks him. Depending on who wins, the Hero can take his girlfriend or Shaniqua becomes his girlfriend. Subsequently winning a match against Ice-T, The Hero and D-Mob are greeted by Crow (Snoop Dogg), and his henchmen: Magic, Scissure, and Trejo. Warning D-Mob that Society 357 will be nether his control, Crow announces he's accepting fighters in render for more greenbacks. The announcement causes D-Mob to lose some of his clubs and several of his fighters siding with Crow, like WC.

Returning to The Limit and Babylon to defeat Crow's fighters, Carmen Electra takes find of The Hero. When the one approaches the other, the girlfriend becomes jealous and engages Electra to a fight. The winner becomes The Hero's girlfriend with mixed results. At a coming together with D-Mob, Bonfire, Ludacris, N.O.R.E., The Hero, and Sticky, they agree to fight Crow'due south fighters to win dorsum their clubs. D-Mob and then arranges a match for Blaze to go up against Crack, but Blaze loses. Defeating many of Crow's fighters, The Hero and so defeats WC at The Red Room. Celebrating their victory, Crow proposes a winner-have-all friction match betwixt Crack and D-Mob's "best man". D-Mob accepts and picks The Hero. Infuriated he wasn't chosen, Sticky storms off and later joins Crow. The Hero defeats Cleft at Club Murder, Crow, along with Cleft, WC and Prodigy, leaves the loonshit angrily equally The Hero, Blaze, and D-Mob gloat in his limousine. As D-Mob gives The Hero a pendant and welcomes him into the family, Crow'south gang attempt a drive-past shooting, causing the cars to crash, and brand their escape into the 125th Street Subway Station. Equally D-Mob and Bonfire remain in the wreckage, The Hero chases down the trio as Magic and Viscid, boards a subway which leaves the station. Trejo is out of bullets and gets in a fight with The Hero; with Trejo potentially being thrown in front end of a train. Returning to the limo, The Hero tries to go D-Mob out of the wreckage simply D-Mob tells him and Blaze to leave as he is also injured and the cops arrive at the scene.

Blaze takes D-Mob'south identify and tells The Hero to go on fighting Crow's fighters to win more than clubs as Doc, waking up, joins in. Along with Ludacris, the trio takes control of the Terror Dome, the Syn Energy Power Plant, 7th Sky, Hunt'southward Point Scrap Yard, and the Foundation. Arriving at the Chopshop, a team tournament sponsored by The Source is existence held where the winning team wins a big amount of money and a customized Cadillac Escalade. Afterward Magic approaches The Hero'due south girlfriend, he enters the tournament and picks either Ice-T or O.E. as his partner. Reaching the concluding circular, the team faces Magic and the partner The Hero didn't choose as his partner and defeats them. The Hero continues to rack upwards wins and chips abroad at Crow's empire. Throughout the story, Crow threatens The Hero to exit his clubs alone while also trying to both become The Hero to join his side and/or threatens him, but fails; at ane point sending Magic to threaten The Hero in a parking lot later on a cage fight at the Gauntlet. Crow, with some help from Viscid and Magic, resorts to kidnapping The Hero's girlfriend and forcing him to retake all the clubs he has earned for D-Mob's side, an apparent betrayal that angers D-Mob's coiffure. Crow warns The Hero that if he tells anyone the existent reason for his alter of sides, his girlfriend will die.

With the final club won in a fight against Doc, before which a distraught Bonfire angrily takes D-Mob's pendant from The Hero, Crow claims to have i concluding task for the player. The scene is moved to an empty scrapyard, where the actor finds Blaze brutally beaten by Magic, the final task being to terminate him off. The Hero refuses, and knocks out WC. He and Blaze then beat up Fissure and Magic. Interrogating them, the Hero finds out where his girlfriend is beingness held, and that Crow never planned on letting her live. He and Blaze rush over to an abased factory, where Sticky is about to prepare the unabridged building on fire. The Hero fights Gummy and leaves him to die in the burning building. After he wins the fight, he can be seen taking his girlfriend out of the building before it collapses. She remains unconscious every bit The Hero tries to shake her awake, and enrages The Hero enough to face up Crow.

The Hero and Blaze confront Crow at his headquarters, backed up by Crack and WC, whose respect they earned, and the residue of D-Mob's coiffure, whom Blaze had cleared The Hero's practiced name with. Every bit a rumble breaks out with the crews, The Hero rushes to Crow's penthouse in a final confrontation. After a cursory stand up off involving a gun, given to The Hero by a repentant Magic, he decides that Crow is not worth killing. However, an enraged Crow attacks him with a knife hidden in his cane, the ensuing fight results in The Hero throwing Crow out a window, plummeting to his death. Having cleared his reputation and overthrown Crow, The Hero then takes a minute to reflect as Blaze gives him back his pendant.

GameCube version [edit]

There are features exclusive to PS2 and Xbox that are missing from the GameCube version. The player is restricted to having ane voice for the principal character - as opposed to the six found in other versions. Eight of the 28 available music tracks are missing. The GameCube's hardware lacks the light mistiness effect that permeates on the characters and arenas. Furthermore, sure three or iv player arenas have reduced crowds due to the minidisc space limitations.^[i]

Development [edit]

Josh Holmes, the producer from EA Canada wanted to improve on the already well received Def Jam Vendetta. The research they've done shows that veteran gamers were familiar with the game control system yet new players were intimidated by the complexity that's been used since WCW vs. nWo: Earth Tour that beginning appeared on the N64. The team decided to simplify the controls and brand them more intuitive: "Nosotros found that straight 1-on-i fighting tended to become stale over time, no matter how polished the fighting engine was". The team added secondary elements like crowds, weapons and interactive environments for the player to employ as a weapon. Lastly, Holmes went on to say that individual players prefer to utilise their own tactics, and then unlike classes has been implemented in unique ways to attain a KO: "The overall focus of the fighting organization is fun, over-the-top action rather than a simulation of technical fighting".

Besides the create-a-fighter mode, a feature lacking in Def Jam Vendetta, has been incorporated into the sequel as a part of the Story Mode. Holmes explains that with other successful fighting games, the convention of a sequel is to add complexity to the control system, multiplayer focus to the exclusion of all else, shallow single thespian, express character customization and having a gameplay that'south skewed towards the hardcore gamer: "Probably the near common that's typical in fighting games like the first game is that it's empty and devoid of people. Inevitably, there'south nothing going on except it's just you and your opponent. So they turned the concept on its caput by filling the gap to brand the fighting game more interactive and less anticipated in order to keep it fresh and accessible for beginners and veterans alike".^[two] ^[3] ^[4] ^[5]

Reception [edit]

The game received largely positive reviews. GameSpot and IGN gave it a score of 8.7 out of 10 and GameSpy and X-Play gave information technology a score of 4 out of 5.^[27] GameSpot 's Alex Navarro praised the game for improving nearly every aspect from its predecessor, including the new fighting styles, character creation, and interaction with weapons and environments. Criticism generally befell on the game'due south camera view and frame charge per unit issues that are establish in all panel versions. Additionally reviewers mentioned that the game is laden with a lot of profanity, though it works within the context of the game. Aside from the frame rate, reviewers praised the game'south graphics, with both IGN and GameSpot calling them "impressive".^[12] GameSpot afterwards named it the best GameCube game of September 2004.^[28] It received runner-up positions in GameSpot's 2004 "Best Fighting Game" and "Best Licensed Music" award categories across all platforms.^[29]

Maxim gave it a score of eight out of ten and said: "Should the lyrically challenged feel left out, y'all tin create your own brawler outfitted in water ice courtesy of glory bling supplier Jacob the Jeweler. Better to look adept than to—ow—feel good".^[21] The Sydney Morning Herald besides gave the game 4 stars out of five and said that "the fact that information technology'south got the deepest story ever seen in a fighter simply adds to the realistic feel of the brutal combat within".^[22]

References [edit]

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External links [edit]

Official website
Def Jam: Fight for NY at MobyGames