Each style is a drastically different gameplay experience from the others. Players that have never played an AKI wrestling title, opting instead to stick with the far inferior WWE titles, will be pleasantly surprised by the depth and ease of this engine. There are five different fighting styles to initially choose from: Kick-Boxing, Street-Fighting, Martial Arts, Wrestling, and Submission, each with their own move sets and finishing moves. Takeovers plot boils down to you against them and only serves to advance your character to the next fight, which for many is just fine.Īfter all, when you have a combat engine that feels this good, what need is there for a story? The strongest and most responsive wrestling engine in the industry, developed by AKI, really flexes its muscle and provides a unique street-brawl/wrestling game thats still tops after so many years.

Some of the coolest scenes in Fight for New York have been carried over, but they dont feel like they fit as well as they did the first time around. The plot does finally come around to something a little more plausible and entertaining, but it doesnt match its console brother at all. Nothing says the police like a Lugz boot to the face of the local undercover law enforcement. Not only is the scenario ludicrous, but the cop is easily one of the easiest fights to deal with. The only entertaining bit of these scenes occur when the cops show up and you have to beat them in a fight. Hey, go get that fool for pushing mix-tapes at our club or Yo, that guy tagged our homeboys ride are pretty typical of what you will be dealing with. The only noticeable changes to the storyline, at least as far as presentation is concerned, is the lack of voice-acting in a huge majority of the story clips and the increased presence of the police.Īll of the story clips during the first half or so of the game involve going to a venue and beating down some guy in retribution for something he did. Gamers get to create a fighter and move up the food-chain in a local street gang, representing his colors by pummeling rival gang-members. Fight for New York, its sequel, upped the ante considerably by morphing the game into a street-fighter/wrestler with five different fighting styles and the ability to customize your wrestler in many ways.ĭef Jam Fight for New York: The Takeover is essentially the same game as the console Fight for New York. Developed by the same team that did the excellent WCW wrestling titles on the N64, Def Jam was arguably the best wrestling title of its day. Rappers getting into the ring and settling the differences seemed like an iffy idea for a game at first, but she handled like a dream. I can remember the trip that I took to the local videogame shop to check out what was new and seeing Def Jam Vendetta for the first time.

Def jam fight for ny: the takeover