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.
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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.
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.
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.
Overall rating: 9
And Def Jam have announced the in-game soundtrack for Def Jam Figh For NY, the sequel to the successful Def Jam Vendetta.The soundtrack will feature a mixture of no less than 28 hot new tracks plus old-school hits not only from the Def Jam stable, but also culled from other prominent hip-hop labels. 'Music is the heart and soul of the Def Jam universe, and authenticity was an absolute must for,' said Steve Schnur, Worldwide Executive of Music and Audio at EA. 'Every track in Def Jam FIGHT For NY was hand-picked by Def Jam and EA to correspond to pivotal moments in the storyline and to intensify the gameplay experience.' The in-game soundtrack for Def Jam FIGHT For NY includes: 'America's Most' - Method Man, Redman 'Anything Goes' - C-N-N 'Are we Cuttin' - Pastor Troy 'Bust' - 'Comp' - Comp 'Flipside' - 'Get into it' - Comp 'Get it now' - Bless 'Let's Get Dirty' - Redman 'Let's G' - Shawnna 'Lil' Bro' - Ric-A-Che 'Make It Hurt' - 'Mama Said Knock You Out' - 'Man Up' - Sticky Fingaz 'Mother Mother' - Xzibit 'Move!' - 'Nuff Respect' - Big Daddy Kane 'O.G. Original Gangster' - 'PistolGrip-Pump' - Volume 10 'Pop Off' - 'Poppa Large' - Ultramagnetic MC's 'See about ya' - Beezle feat. Bonecrusher 'Sieze the Day' - Bless 'Take a Look at My Life' - Fat Joe 'Walk With Me' - 'We Gon Hit Em' - Deuce, Dub and the Junkyard Gang 'What's Happenin' - Method Man 'Yes Sir' - C-N-N.