Def Jam: Fight for NY is a hip hop-influenced 3D action video game published by EA Games (unlike the original, which was published under the EA Sports BIG brand). It was released on September 21, 2004 for PlayStation 2, Xbox, and GameCube. It is a sequel to Def Jam Vendetta and is followed by Def Jam: Icon. Find all our Def Jam: Fight for NY Questions and Answers for PlayStation 2. The FAQ for Def Jam: Fight for NY plus great forums and game help. Fight for NY 's story mode takes you through the ranks, and pits you against tougher and tougher fighters. You start off in D-Mobb's crew as a nobody, and will have to work your way up, fighting off people from other crews, including D-Mobb's rival, Crow. PlayStation 2 Def Jam: Fight for NY. Players: 4 Simultaneous: Year: 2004: File size: 1.67 GB: SLUS-21004. Shop Def Jam: Fight for NY (Game Guide) PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube at Best Buy. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up. Price Match Guarantee.

Story Mode

YOU FIGHTING STYLE | SPENDING DEV POINTS | FIGHT STRATEGIES

The story mode of Def Jam FIGHT for NY is the heart of the game, and it's a rough and constant battle to the top of the underground world. You'll have to exercise all of the strategies and tactics detailed in the earlier portions of this guide to make it through.

Of course, pure fighting talent won't pave the road to success without a bit more specific knowledge of the story mode. Below are all the tips you'll need to fight your way through this grueling nightmare, including strategies on competing in free-for-all battles, and helpful suggestions for spending your development points most wisely.

YOUR FIGHTING STYLE

Immediately after picking your character's visual style, you're left to make a decision that will affect the rest of your thug life—you choose the fighting style that will be your core. Though four of the five styles definitely have their advantages (the fifth, martial arts, is just about worthless), not all are best to start out with.

To start out your underground fighting career, choosing the street fighter style will make your first fights easier than with any other style. The versatility and power in a street fighter's haymaker punch will make early fights a breeze, and will let you quickly build up enough dev points to power up your character and learn other styles.

If street fighting isn't your thing, the next best style to start with is wrestling. Wrestlers have the power early on to wear down opponents, though because they're not as versatile as street fighters you'll have to hope that your opponents don't use too many reversals.

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As you earn more dev points and want to expand your fighting styles, it's important to add a style that will increase your versatility. The best combination of styles is street fighting and kickboxing—if you can master those styles, you'll have the tools to beat any opponent in the game.

For more details on the strengths and weaknesses of each fighting style, check out the Fighting Styles portion of our guide.

SPENDING DEV POINTS

As you fight your way through the story mode, you'll earn fighter development points that you can spend to increase the strength of your character. There are three basics ways you can spend your development points—to train your skills, learn new fighting styles, or learn new blaze moves—and it's important to know which will give you a better chance of dominating in the fighting ring.

Train Your Skills
The absolute best way to spend your dev points is to train your skills, boosting your stats in areas such as speed, upper body strength (punch attacks), lower body strength (kicks), etc. As you progress through the game's story, your opponents become increasingly strong in all areas and the only way to match them is to boost your own stats.

Before bothering with other ways to spend your dev points, train your skills. When you've built up your stats so high that it starts costing a lot of dev points to go any further, then you can start worrying about the other, less-consequential things.

Learn New Styles
It's very important to diversify your fighting tactics in Def Jam FIGHT for NY—become too predictable, and your opponents will be able to reverse every attempt you make to go for KOs. Luckily, adding fighting styles to your repertoire doesn't cost a lot of dev points.

After you've boosted your stats with the first few thousand dev points you get, splurge and purchase a new fighting style. Depending on the style you chose at the beginning of the story mode, you should pick a complementary style to broaden your list of skills.

You can learn a total of three different styles (including the style you originally picked when creating your character), though it's really only important to learn two. Picking a third style can definitely help your fighting, but should be reserved for late in the story mode (50% complete or later) to maximize effectiveness. Check the table below for advice in picking new styles.

...In other words, don't pick martial arts for anything.

Learn New Moves
The third way to spend your development points is to buy new blaze attacks, and while it's definitely cool to have variety of attacks with which to pummel your foes, it doesn't actually help your chance at beating the game. Every blaze attack deals the same damage as the others, which makes having more than blaze attack, technically, useless.

Since you won't benefit from having more than one blaze attack, there's no reason to waste your dev points here unless you're not worried about the rest of your stats.

FIGHT STRATEGIES

Throughout your fighting career, you'll participate in a number of different challenges that will test all of your skills. For some strategies on these different events, read below.

One-on-One Battles
Roughly 80% of your battles will be one-on-one fights under normal conditions. These fights are obviously the most straight-forward, and will make the best test of your fighting skills.

The best mode of play is to fight hard and aggressively. Your opponents have no problem playing the waiting game with you, and will almost always wait for you to make the first moves. Stay on the offensive, and don't let up with your bombardment of attacks. It's easiest to get the upper hand early in the fight, which should also earn you a blaze attack. After nailing your opponent with the blaze attack, quickly rush up to them while they're dizzy on the floor, and execute your final KO attack to win the match.

Free for Alls
Occasionally, you'll be invited to participate in a free for all tournament. Each round pits four fighters against each other at the same time, and the last man standing wins the fight.

The best way to play these fights is to wait 'em out. In just about every fight, you can run to the corner, hang out, and watch the other three combatants pummel each other. Wait for them to KO each other, leaving only one already-beaten soldier left to challenge you. From there, just fight it like you would any normal one-on-one match—since your opponent should already be heavily wounded, you'll have an easy fight.

The one downfall to this strategy is that you won't earn as much money from performing cool moves. However, you'll have such a greater chance of winning that the lacking cash will be forgotten when you easily win the event.

Team Matches
When you get to fighting with a partner, taking on two opponents, the most important thing to ensure is that you never get left having to take on two opponents by yourself.

When the fight starts, pick an opponent to focus on and pound him! You can almost always leave your ally to himself without having to worry, letting you focus on the other. Be aggressive like you would with any one-on-one match and try to KO him before your teammate gets into trouble.

And even though your teammate is usually okay on his own, it's still important to pay attention to his health bar to make sure he doesn't get crushed. If you see your teammate in danger, quickly run to his rescue, grapple his opponent from behind, and work to give your teammate the upper hand. When your ally is back on his feet, resume your focus on one opponent, and try to keep your battle separate from your teammate's.

When you get down to just one opponent, team-up with your partner in a relentless beating. If your partner activates a blaze attack, lay off the opponent and let your teammate get in for the grapple.

Demolition Matches
On just one occasion, you'll battle against Magic in a parking lot featuring both of your expensive rides. And while the one-on-one battle will play out as usual for the most part, there is one interesting and new aspect at play: your cars! You can get your KO as per usual, or you can win the fight by completely demolishing your opponent's ride.

To damage your opponent's car, perform environmental grappling attacks that slam them into his vehicle (his is on the right, yours on the left). Mess up multiple parts of their car to total the car, and win the fight before forcing the KO. You'll have to watch out, though—he can win the fight the same way. Do your best to keep the fight on his side of the parking lot to make sure that your ride is safe. Your opponent is much less likely to perform any environmental grapple attacks if the only object is his own ride—and even if he does slam you against his car, he's only working himself closer to a loss.

It's hard to deny the appeal of a fighting game with this much street cred. Featuring no less than forty celebrities packed into the game, a fighting feel that's unique and all its own, and a serious dedication to game length, Def Jam: Fight For NY is a great game. With the only serious flaws being an interface that impedes versus play, and a learning curve the likes of which I've never seen before, this title excels even in spite of its shortcomings.

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The most robust gameplay mode is that of the single player campaign, where you make a custom fighter, pick his primary fighting style, and then outfit him with tight threads and a serious amount of bling. You'll be trained by none other than Henry Rollins, and schooled in the ways of hardcore street fighting. Each fighter you make can be customized with literally hundreds of unlockable items, from all manner of bling to a complete wardrobe and set of full body tattoos. Most definitely, the ability to customize your game avatar is one of the more impressive elements in this game, and it even has a game impact, as your use of bling determines how much the crowd likes your fight, letting you get powerful finishing moves off more often. Additionally, the single player campaign is quite long, which it needs to be, because the interface isn't tweaked correctly to satisfy hardcore multiplayer.

On the other side of the fence, this game has a really worthwhile fight engine that only suffers from two major problems. First, the controls aren't quite sloppy, but if the countering and blocking system were a bit tighter, it'd be significantly easier. Second, and this somewhat exists because of the first, this game has a ridiculous learning curve, one that took me several hours to get adjusted to. Until such a time as you can keep the momentum of a fight in your favor, and learn to deal with opponents that block and grapple effectively, you'll encounter frustration after frustration. Not an endearing trait in my book.

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A custom soundtrack and some truly righteous graphics finish this title's impressive pedigree of features. If you can deal with controls that aren't optimal, and take some getting used to, you may like this title. Remember that this isn't Def Jam: Vendetta, and doesn't suffer its problems, but in fact has a set of its very own. That said, I had a great deal of fun with this game, and I'd recommend it to anyone.