Edgar writes: "In this article, we take a look at Def Jam: Fight for NY after its 15 years on the market and how it redefined storytelling in the fighting genre."
Def Jam: Fight for New York is a revered PlayStation 2 title among Hip-hop and fighting game fans alike. Create your own street tough fighter and hit the fight clubs of New York to take on iconic music artists for control of the city.
The amount of content this game has is crazy. No DLC or micro transactions. Deep fighting mechanics and people are still hosting tournaments on YouTube. Top 5 fighting games of all time.
I'd love to see it get a quality follow-up or at least a re-release though the licensing of the music and the rappers themselves is no doubt a nightmare now.
The Def Jam game series has been laying dormant for over a decade at this point, but could we ever see a revival of some kind?
Whut
Fight for New York was awesome.
Icon was pretty bad, but I'll give them some benefit because they tried to do something new. A direct sequel to FFNY would be grand, though in the era of microtransactions and EA being who they are now, one should tread carefully about that fantasy.
I hear you, but the rappers nowadays are completely lame and corny when compared to the rappers from FFNY.
I rather take a remake from the game than a sequel.
You'll get no disagreement from me there.
For some reason, I hadn't considered that there would be modern rappers. Christ.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be mad if they added more Wutang members so I can "torture" Tekashi69. :D
we definitely need it to return, but nothing like Icon since that was trash. The mechanics of Def Jam fight for NY and Vendetta was still great til this day.
I hope so. Just go back to the Fight for New York style, and forget Icon ever happened.
Man I used to really love DJ Fight for NY and DJ Icon back in the day. I hope someone (not EA) can revive this franchise.
Icon sucks, I admit. But I used to love the DJ games so much that I was willing to accept any game thrown in my way.
Do you remember the Def Jam-licensed hip hop video game franchise released by EA Games? Def Jam Vendetta? Def Jam: Fight for NY? Def Jam: Icon? Well, the studio seems to be teasing the fourth entry by tweeting that a "special announcement" will be coming soon.
It won’t be the same, these rappers nowadays are corny as f$&k and they won’t hold the same weight as the rappers in the first two games.....Icon was trash.
Too true. I don't even think Def Jam has any artist now in days that would be worth playing as, and I'd rather not play as any of these clowns calling themselves artist today.
I'd definitely prefer a remake of the original games than a new one with all these rappers of today.
It would be cool if we can see Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly battling it out in the game, if Def Jam can somehow license those two into the game.
This seems like nothing but talk. I don't even think EA has the rights to make Def Jam games anymore. The last Def Jam Game was a sing a long game by Konami.
Def Jam: Fight for NY was badass. Played the shit out of that one. Icon was trash.
Just do a full remake of F4NY
The first two games were good. Since they were developed by AKI Corp.
The third game was made by EA Chicago, who made such a bad fighting game that EA abandoned their studio. Activision then bought the studio and they were renamed to Robomodo. They then proceeded to make 4 garbage Tony Hawk games in a row, and then shut down.
If there's another game, and its not made by AKI Corp., then move on.
I.had no idea they were also robomodo it all makes sense.
Still Def jam icon was passable I thought frustrating and unresponsive at times though it could have been worse and then konami made Def jam sing star
With the pretty much same rester with some new rappers like j.cole and kendrick.. and 69 just so I can beat his ass couple of times. Up to date graphics or the style of ICON and gameplay of fight for NY and we have a winner. But none of that will happen..
I miss this game. It had that N64 wrestling game feel that I love.
This game is the reason I pull out my PS2 every now and then. I got a multitap and
3 extra controllers just so I could play 4 player Free-for-all with friends.
A remaster would be awesome but copyrights with the music, voice actors and all the branded clothes etc would probably make it difficult
It's going for $200 on Amazon smh