Fight For NY: Def Jam

Fight For NY Def Jam
For those unfamiliar with the Def Jam games, the original released nearly a year ago was in fact the GameCube's best fighting game for a short period, which makes sense as EA teamed up with AKI Corp, the Developer behind arguably the best wrestling game ever made, WWF No Mercy on the N64.

However, Def Jam being a game where you play as the various rappers in the Industry and making them beat each other up without the use of Glock 9mms or their "back up" makes it sounds a little odd, however we assure you it was a good game to be sure, with great gameplay.

That was Vendetta, of course, we are now more worried with how Fight For NY is going. First off, let it be known there are over forty of your favourite rappers and celebrities to beat each other up with and the game doesn't stoop to celebrity death match levels to pull it off, thankfully. Among them are Busta Rhymes, Sean Paul, Snoop Dogg, Ghostface Killah, Method Man, Ludacris, Lil' Kim, Ice T, Redman, as well as celebrities Carmen Electra and Danny Trejo (a personal favourite of mine). However, all this would mean nothing if the gameplay was not up to much, but even with less wrestling connections, it still squares up to the challenge.

Using AKI's traditional wrestling engine, watering it down slightly from Vendetta, it is the standard fare: a grapple button, a strike button and one