![]() Snoop Dogg, for instance, is called as such because he is a man who looks like a dog. In reality, rappers essentially play caricatures of themselves. ![]() ![]() Instead, the music genre’s themes of excess and the pursuit of monetary gain are the focal point, as are the larger-than-life personalities of the stars themselves. It’s a roster of multi-millionaires playing themselves, but if they decided to supplement their bank-rolling careers with cash-in-hand work as part-time murderers.Ĭonsidering that this is a fighting game featuring rappers, very little rapping is done in Fight for NY. Taking predecessor Def Jam Vendetta‘s rapper wrestling but moving it into the world of underground fighting, AKI Corporation (previously responsible for the beloved WWF No Mercy) and its now-defunct collaborator EA Chicago created an alternate universe in which the likes of Ghostface Killah, Fat Joe, and everyone’s favorite jolly car dealer Xzibit are bare-knuckle fighters duking it out for survival in a crime-ridden city. There aren’t stats or figures to back this up, but rest assured that if you ever find yourself in conversation with someone who happened to play AKI Corporation’s arena fighter, they will tell you that one of the greatest tragedies in this world is that we never saw the release of a Fight for NY 2.įight for NY absolutely shouldn’t work. Anecdotal evidence suggests that out of every game released in the early 2000s, Def Jam: Fight for NY is the one that most desperately deserves a sequel.
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