Ice T Is Right, We Do Need To Reboot Def Jam
Ice T is a gamer. For years he has tweeted about his favourite titles, argued with toxic idiots online, and has even shown up in an E3 conference or two to spread the good word. He’s also an actor, musician and artist with a storied history in several pieces of media, and that includes Def Jam: Fight For NY.
Released for the PS2, Xbox, and Nintendo GameCube back in 2004, Fight For NY was a fighter that leveraged the record label’s huge catalogue of talent while throwing them into an absurdly over-the-top yarn filled with exaggerated personalities and extreme violence. It wasn’t the best game ever made, but was so unique in its aesthetic approach that thousands have fond memories of kicking the shit out of fools as Flava Flav and Xzibit.
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Ice T recently took to Twitter and expressed his desire for a Def Jam: Fight For NY reboot, and judging by the unparalleled reaction, everyone’s right there with him. We have been for years, with the game frequently coming up in conversation whenever potential revivals and forgotten classics are uttered in the slightest. It’s excellent, thanks to its sprawling cast who aren’t afraid to indulge in an utterly absurd premise that felt achingly of its time.
The Def Jam roster isn’t what it used to be, and many of the established names fans would expect to see return in a potential remaster or sequel might be wound up in an avalanche of likeness and copyright issues that no publisher is willing to sift through. Electronic Arts published the original game, and it doesn’t seem like its cup of tea in 2022 unless it can morph it into a live service or some form of ongoing multiplayer juggernaut.
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