Def Jam: Fight for NY
Developer(s): Aki Corp.
Publisher(s): EA Games (US, JP), Electronic Arts (EU, US)
Genre: Action, Fighting
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 83/100
Game description: Def Jam Fight for NY takes the battle for hip-hop domination into the fighting ring. More than 35 hip-hop artists and personalities--including Busta Rhymes, Carmen Electra, Lil' Kim, Ludacris, Method Man, Redman, Sean Paul, Slick Rick, and Snoop Dogg--face off in brutal wrestling matches. In the ring and on the streets, you'll join the battle as a New York City street fighter. The game challenges you to develop your own fighting style and seize control of the hip-hop underworld.
The gameplay is expanded from the original game, which was primarily a wrestling game. Fighters can choose one, two, or three of five fighting styles.
The game's story mode follows the narrative of an unknown fighter, created by the player, who is fighting his way through the New York Underground. Winning matches rewards the player with cash, which can be used in shops to buy clothes which include famous clothes lines such as Reebok, Phat Farm, Air Jordan, and even rapper Sean Comb's clothes line, Sean John and many other clothes lines. As well as clothes, the fighter can get haircuts, tattoos, and jewelry from Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo, as well as Development points, which can be used at the local gym, run by Henry Rollins, to increase the character's skills, or to purchase and set up new Blazin' Moves and up to two additional fighting styles.
Test configurations on Windows:
Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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Region | OS | CPU/GPU | Revision | Graphics | Sound/Pad | ||
PAL-M (?) | ? |
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0.9.6 | GSdx 1.1.5 |
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crashes into the load screen to the ingame | 88.77.83.110 |
PAL | ? |
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r3113 | GSdx r3068 0.1.16 |
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Works surprisingly good with newest beta. | Sev7en77 |
NTSC-U | Windows 10 |
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1.6.0 | GSdx 1.20 |
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60 FPS Most times. Some very minor framerate drops depending on what attacks or actions are happening on screen. Must have MVT-U disabled otherwise game will crash at startup. Completed game at custom res of 1920x1080 and 2x AA | F0rmald3hyde |
Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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Region | OS | CPU/GPU | Revision | Graphics | Sound/Pad | ||
NTSC-U | Fedora 29 |
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1.4.0 | libGSdx-1.0.0 | SPU2-X 2.0.0 | Crashes with MTVU speedhack - disable it. VU Cycle Stealing improves performance. 4-player matches were too taxing for my 2010 CPU to get above 50 FPS. | Deimos94 |
Trivia
- Original names: デフジャム・ファイト・フォー・NY (SLPM-65907) & (SLPM-66463) & (SLPM-55078), 데프잼: 파이트 포 뉴욕 (SLKA-25230)
Known Issues
Crashing on startup with MTVU enabled
- Status: Fixed
- Type: Major
- Description: The game will freeze the emulator on startup with MTVU
- Workaround: Update to the latest nightly version of PCSX2.
Bad lighting
- Status: Active
- Type: Minor
- Description: The game's lighting is somewhat squared and pops out of characters.
- Workaround: Use skipdraw to remove post-processing layers 1-17.