The record label appears to be stoking fan excitement over a new game in a few not so subtle tweets.
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.
It's been two decades since Def Jam Vendetta came out and it's just wild that we've had so little new Def Jam since.
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?
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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.
As long as it's more like Fight for NY and less like Icon. Hopefully they bring back AKI Corporation to develop it
Please, make it like Fight for NY.
Like Vendetta with Asmik Aki/ No Mercy engine please
It all comes down to developer, and while EA Toronto did a great job with FFNY, I'm pretty sure they don't want anything more to do with the Def Jam series. Which is why we got Def Jam Icon from EA Chicago, and the guy behind the Xbox Kinect.
Fight for NY was an awesome game!! Even for a fighting game it had great replay ability. Sunk some serious hours into that game.