All these styles are translated through what is, in essence, the same basic gameplay engine Vendetta used, but with a much, much higher emphasis on learning the styles and moves of your opponents. Essentially, each of the fighters in Fight for NY draws his or her individual move set from one to three of the game's five fighting styles, including kickboxing, street fighting, martial arts, wrestling, and submissions. While last year's Vendetta may have been solely a wrestling game in the eyes of most, Fight for NY takes the Aki engine and tweaks it quite a bit, speeding up the pace of the action and putting more focus on unique fighting styles than the standard strikes and grapples of old. Now Playing: Def Jam: Fight for NY Video Review Many of the top names in hip-hop have returned yet again to beat one another to a bloody pulp in Def Jam: Fight for NY.īy clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
No doubt, this is a more brutal, bloody, and foul-mouthed effort than last year's game, but this emphasis on mature content is backed up by great gameplay and an incredible atmosphere, effectively trumping Vendetta in every way that matters and making for a game that should appeal to hip-hop fans and fighting-game players alike. More hip-hop stars, more fighting styles, a much deeper story mode, and a big, fat M rating are the name of game in Fight for NY. Unsurprisingly, EA Games has followed up the success of Vendetta with a sequel, Def Jam: Fight for NY. But, somehow, the game not only worked, it worked extremely well, managing to create one of the most unique grapplers of this console generation. EA's seemingly unholy marriage of Aki Corporation's highly regarded wrestling-game engine with a hip-hop-themed street-fighting game featuring some of the rap business' top talent seemed like, at best, an oddball combination. For 125 Street Station, your enemy will be thrown into the path of the train and get run over.When Def Jam Vendetta hit store shelves last year, it could not have been called anything but an out-of-left-field success. For The Barge, it will do the same thing except your enemy will be thrown into the Hudson River. For The Office, when you perform a Blazing environmental move, a cinematic view of you throwing your enemy out of the window will happen. In order to perform this move your enemy must be in the danger zone, then perform a Blazing taunt at one of those places. In places such as The Office, The Barge, and 125 Street Station, you can perform a Blazing environmental move. Then, choose the "Cheats" selection and enter one of the following codes to unlock the corrsponding song:Īfter Hours by Nyne: LOYALTY Anything Goes by C-N-N: MILITAIN Blindside by Baxter: CHOPPER Bust by Outkast: BIGBOI Comp by Comp: CHOCOCITY Dragon House by Chiang: AKIRA Get it Now by Bless: PLATINUMB Koto by Chiang: GHOSTSHELL Lil Bro by Ric-A-Che: GONBETRUBL Man Up by Sticky Fingaz: KIRKJONES Move! by Public Enemy: RESPECT Original Gangster by Ice T: POWER Poppa Large by Ultramagnetic MC's: ULTRAMAG Then, choose the "Cheats" selection and enter one of the following codes to get the corrsponding number of reward points:ġ00 points: BULLETPROOF 100 points: CROOKLYN 100 points: DASTREETS 100 points: DUCKETS 100 points: GETSTUFF 100 points: GOUNDRGRND 100 points: NEWJACK 100 points: REALSTUFF 100 points: THEEMCEE 100 points: THESOURCE 200 points: DRAGONHOUSE 200 points: REAL STYLE 200 points: SUPER FREAK 300 points: NEWYORKCITĪt the main menu, select the "Extras" option.
At the main menu, select the "Extras" option.