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 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 (as Blaze)
 N.O.R.E.
 Redman (as Doc)
 Shawnna
 Scarface
 Sticky Fingaz
 WC Baby Chris
 David Banner
 Bless
 Bone Crusher
 Bubba Sparxxx
 Busta Rhymes (as Magic)
 Carmen Electra
 Crazy Legs
 Elephant Man
 Fam-Lay
 Fat Joe (as Crack)
 Havoc
 Ice-T
 Lil' Kim
 Lil' Flip
 Mack 10
 Omar Epps (as O.E.)
 Prodigy
 Sean Paul
 Slick Rick
 Snoop Dogg (as Crow)
 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.

References

Other websites
Official website (Archive)

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