Within a few minutes of playing, you should be snapping up the enemies with devastating hits, combinations, and grapples. You can’t customize the settings in any way, and while that is a bit annoying for those of us who would rather use the digital over the analog disc to move the character, it’s easy to adapt to. Unlike the recently released Tekken: Dark Resurrection, the control scheme of the game fits perfectly well with the PSP configuration.

Create-A-Fighter: Build your own street-ready fighter and outfit him with thousands of pieces of unlockable licensed gear, tattoos, and bling from the jeweler to the stars, Jacob the Jeweler.įor anyone looking for a solid brawler that doesn’t require re-learning how to use the PSP, Def Jam is it.

40 of the Biggest Names in Hip Hop: Featuring the hottest names in hip hop from Def Jam and beyond including Busta Rhymes, Fat Joe, Flava Flav, Freeway, Ghostface, Ice T, Joe Budden, Kimora Lee Simmons, Lil’ Kim, Ludacris, Method Man, Redman, Sean Paul, Slick Rick, Snoop Dogg, Xzibit and many more.

WirelssBattle: Choose from 60 online characters and 24 venues- including four PSP exclusives- and take on friends and enemies in a wireles 1-on-1 Death Match to prove your stuff on the streets.

Dozens of Weapons Up the Ante: Shatter bottles on your opponent’s head and inflict repeated beatings using wrenches, 2×4’s and more.

Venue-specific “sticky points” allow you to set up the big takedown with style.

Interactive Enviornments: From the destructible enviornmental objects to rowdy specatators who like to get involved in the action, the venues themselves are the ultimate weapons.

New Venues: Four new venues include Black Alley, a tense grotto-style enviornment for street fighting and dead making, and the Barge, where you can throw enemies into the water to win.

Five Brutal Fighting Styles: Featuring street fighting, kickboxing, martial arts, wrestling and submission fighting- throw down with the technique that fits your style.

Humiliate other fighters by throwing dirt into their faces, continue hitting them as they fall down, then mount and pound them senseless so they can never get back up. Does it suffer the PS2 to PSP curse, or does it manage to rise above it console bretheren? So now there is a new version on the PSP, Def Jam: Fight for New York: The Takeover. It dazzled gamers with great graphics, a decent story, and easy to access gameplay.

The current-gen versions of Def Jam were solid fighting games that told the story of an up-and-coming fighter as he rose through the ranks of an underground fighting league. Its uses a liscense that should even logically fit in a fighting game, and yet it does. It’s not quite a fighting game, its not quiet a wrestling game, yet the game somehow manages to be both at the same time. The Def Jam series has managed to carve out a niche of its own.

Def jam fight for ny: the takeover