Def Jam: Fight for NY

***Def Jam: Fight for NY*** is a fighting video game. It was published by EA Games and was developed by both AKI Corporation and EA Canada.

It was released on September 21, 2004 in North America, October 1, 2004 in Europe, and February 24, 2005 in Japan. It was released for the GameCube, PlayStation 2, and Xbox.

In the game, the player creates a character. The character saves D-Mob (Chris Judge) from being arrested and joins his crew. The player then must win fights in the New York Underground to earn reputation. The player meets D-Mob's rival Crow (Snoop Dogg), who is trying to ruin D-Mob's business. After winning a few fights, the player and D-Mob's crew party in a limo but crash it after members of Crow's gang try to do a drive-by shooting. D-Mob gets injured and arrested. The player then is forced to turn against D-Mob's crew after Crow kidnaps his girlfriend and tells him to get his nightclubs back or he would kill her. After his former D-Mob crew member Blaze (Method Man) is taken to a scrapyard and beaten up, Crow tells the player to murder him. The player refuses and fights back against Crow's crew with Blaze. The two then rush to save the player's girlfriend and fight Crow. After fighting Crow in his office, the player kills him by throwing him out a window.

It is a sequel to the 2003 game _Def Jam Vendetta_. A PSP port titled _Def Jam Fight for NY: The Takeover_ was released alongside _Fight for NY_. A sequel titled _Def Jam: Icon_ would be released on March 6, 2007.

## Fighters

Many of the fighters in the game are well known rappers who were signed to the Def Jam label at that time. Some characters are also made just for the game.

||D-Mob's Crew||Crow's Crew|colspan="4"|Circuit Fighters|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|* Capone * Comp * D-Mob * Erick Sermon * Flavor Flav * Freeway * Ghostface Killah * Henry Rollins * Joe Budden * Kimora Lee Simmons * Ludacris * Memphis Bleek * Method Man <small>(as Blaze)</small> * N.O.R.E. * Redman <small>(as Doc)</small> * Shawnna * Scarface * Sticky Fingaz * WC|* Baby Chris * David Banner * Bless * Bone Crusher * Bubba Sparxxx * Busta Rhymes <small>(as Magic)</small> * Carmen Electra * Crazy Legs * Elephant Man * Fam-Lay * Fat Joe <small>(as Crack)</small> * Havoc * Ice-T * Lil' Kim * Lil' Flip * Mack 10 * Omar Epps <small>(as O.E.)</small> * Prodigy * Sean Paul * Slick Rick * Snoop Dogg <small>(as Crow)</small> * Trejo * Warren G * Xzibit|* Bo * Chiang * Cindy J * Cruz * Dan G * House * Jacob * Jervis * Lauren * Manny * Masa * Meca * Nyne|* Pockets * Rome * Santos * Shaniqua * Skull * Snowman * Solo * Starks * Stingray * Super * Teck * Trick|||

## Reception

The game was given very positive reviews by game critics. Critics said that they liked that the game improved on all of the problems with the last game. They also liked the game's graphics, gameplay, soundtrack, in-game environments, and controls. However, some said that there were some framerate issues.

It was named Best GameCube Game of September 2004 by GameSpot and was nominated for Fighting Game of the Year at the 8th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards.

## Other websites

- Official website (Archive)

## Infobox (video game)

- **title**: Def Jam: Fight for NY
- **developer**: Syn Sophia, AKI Corporation
EA Vancouver, EA Canada
- **publisher**: EA Games
- **producer**: Josh Holmes
Hideyuki Iwashita
Lauren Wirtzer
- **programmer**: Jorge Freitas
Hiro Abe
- **artist**: Daryl Anselmo
Hiroya Tamura
- **writer**: Mark Sawers
Douglas Barber
- **platforms**: GameCube
PlayStation 2
Xbox (console), Xbox
- **genre**: Fighting game, Fighting
- **modes**: Single-player video game, Single-player, Multiplayer game, multiplayer