Now THIS is STREET FIGHTING! | MAX PLAYS: Def Jam: Fight for NY - Part 1 

Now THIS is really a certified hood classic!

The grappling system along with the crowd interactivity was so fresh and unique for the time. Not alot of fighters have really used that concept ever again.

2:47:19 Max: "GET THAT SHIT OUTTA HERE, THIS IS MINE NOW" The music: "Get outta here with that shit, man." Max: "YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I SAID" That shit got me crying every time man

Watching Max get bodied by Cruz only to beat Sean Paul on the first time was infuriating, awe inspiring, and hilarious.

First off whoever told Max to go martial arts first in style did him a major disservice lol, obviously a beginner lol, always go street fighter, wrestling, or kickboxing first, unless your advance, but the progression since picking up street fighter as a second style Max has learned a lot in the arena, glad to see him enjoy this diamond class of a game 🙌

THIS GAME WAS MY WHOLE CHILDHOOD! It's amazing to see you play it. It's ridiculously good!

This game had so much content and is the definition of the 2000's bling era. Despite being a licensing hell because a lot of the playable rappers did not get payed for it. Plus almost all of the roster would nowadays be put behind a paywall which is the sad truth about fighting games. You even could have friends come over and have him use his memory card to have his CaC fight against yours. Sure the story mode could get a bit dragged out at the 2nd half of the story with fighting at the same venues or slightly modified versions of them but it wasn't as noticable when the fighting itself is so satisfying. This game had everything. Supers, stage finishers, a ridiculously large roster where literally everyone who appeared in the game one way or another is playable, a solid 2000's soundtrack list, and a shit ton of costumizable options for your CaC. Man I miss this game. This and Vendetta were fun to play with. Icon ruined and killed the franchise unfortunately. I even still remember the rumors back then of a new FFNY version with extra characters like 50 Cent, Eminem, 2Pac and Biggie.

Man, I’m so happy to be able to re-live this game through Max playing it for the first time and now realizing that Chris Judge went from D-Mob to Kratos

55:44 it’s kind of insane how well “My Town My City” works for this game

Been playing this game for more than a decade, when it comes to FFNY, my go to style is Submissions (or Wrestling) because using one of these two styles enables you to do a Strong front grapple and switch to a Rear grapple, since the game punishes you if you're using the same moves more than twice in a row, these two styles allows you for an easy access to more variety. The other 3 styles don't let you do that, and if you pick Sub or Wrestling as the 2nd or 3rd style, you cannot do that still, they have to be one of your 1st style. The pros and cons to each style is that : - Martial Arts : You can give faster strikes and it's easier to counter your opponent BUT you're much weaker in terms of damage and sometimes the style disable other styles to have some KO moves. - Street Fighting : Well obviously the power of your punching moves are stronger but you're a little too predictable. - Kickboxing : A great style to combo your opponent BUT the game will often penalize you for using it, meaning less money. It's probably the best fighting style of them all. - Wrestling : Access to easy rear grapples BUT you're a little one sided as your best option is always to grapple. - Submissions : Weakening a limb means less damage from the opponent BUT it's an extremely slow (as in you cannot win fast with it) and boring style to some players. My go to combinations are mostly (IN THE WRITTEN ORDER): - *Submissions* (it's the most basic one but the Sleeper hold is a very broken submission in the early game). - *Kickboxing* (It's the beginning style but it's litterally the ONLY Kickboxing style that lets you use the Kickboxing's punch combo as the strong grapple, as all other additional styles will automatically be assigned to the punch moves). - *Submissions + Kickboxing* (The submissions are quite effective with it and it makes your win condition much faster, there's a very good Submission moves with it). - *Wrestling + Kickboxing* (You can KO someone so fast with it as it combines the most useful combo of the Kickboxing with the heavy moves of Wrestling that can KO opponents). - *Submissions + Wrestling* (If you switch the order of these two styles you have a different set of moves and submissions to use, it's the style that fits a pure wrestling game style as well as a pure Def Jam Vendetta gameplay).

2:32:24 Max’s reaction is priceless, lmfao. We all reacted like this when we lost to him back in the day.

"I need a weapon! I need a weapon!!!" Said Max in a stage with two bottles on the speakers, and three dudes holding pipes... lmao loved every minute of this.

I particularly like how the Martial Arts style's stance is a homage to Ryu's stance

Even if they can't make a game exactly like this, due to licensing, I'd love to see a game that has similar mechanics. From the combining of styles to form your own, a well done story, and a large cast, with fun supers and Damn good customization. Loved this game back in that day.

3:38:29 had me cracking up hard. They were in sync twice😆

My favorite thing about this game is watching people go "...what, there's more?!?" Also, the fact that it's maybe the funnest fighting game ever

The streets been waitin for this one, Max!!

This game in modern times will be a Microtransaction hell hole with some NFT crap from Snoop Dog. What an amazing game.

The funny thing is the PSP version has improved mechanics like ground take downs for some ground and pound. That was awesome.

28:30 the best back and forth ever 😂

Max’s character looking like when mom says we have Guile at home. So damned good

1. for anybody who’s never played this game and wants to give it a try, first off emulation is your best bet unless you want to pay 150-200$, or know somebody that has the game already. 2. when you play this game, DO NOT MASH BUTTONS. it’s not a street fighter/mortal Kombat style fighting game. it’s a fighting game with wrestling game controls. (grapple button, one punch button, one kick button, a run button, and L1/L is your modifier.) 3. for your first time, DON’T PLAY ON HARD, and DON’T choose martial arts as your first fighting style or you’ll most likely give up quickly. STREETFIGHTING, is the easiest style to use (it’s also the best speed running style). (Look at number 4 if hard mode doesn’t intimidate you.) 4. if you want to make the best character statistically possible, choose Martial Arts, Streetfighting, & Kickboxing, in that order. 5. YES, JEWELRY makes a difference, the more expensive your jewelry is the faster your “blazin” (finisher) meter fills up. 6. getting “perfect” matches & getting more points by doing more moves, gives you more money to spend, so make the matches LAST, don’t end them quickly. try to use your blazin 4-5 times in EVERY MATCH. 7. USE THE ENVIRONMENT, using the crowd is a good thing but DON’T try to use the crowd as a way to end the match. USE THE WALLS/CAGE. 8. THANK YOU MAX, for showcasing one of the greatest games of all time, (my second favorite).

It's embarrassing how fighting games that used 3D models from the PS2 era still have better facial animation than the overwhelming majority of fighting games today that use 3D models.

How the hell we don't have games like these nowadays? We come so far in the tech side, and still this game is way more fun to play than most of games nowadays!

Sean Paul fight was too funny. Chat: "Sean Paul is gonna wreck you! Everyone had problems with this fight" * Sean Paul kicks Max, then taunts like he's hot shit. * * Max proceeds to beat the living crap out of Paul with no additional damage * Max: "Problem fight, huh?"

this is my Favorite game of all time and i'm just happy you're putting eyes on it for potential new fans to enjoy. i'm in my 30s now not a lot of younger folks know about this game

I'm like 20 minutes into this and I'm surprised Max didn't realize his character's stance was an actual shoto's (Ryu's) 😂

"No Foreplay" is Lauren's finishing move. Lauren's the sketch artist at the beginning.

Not only is this a hood classic, BUT the character creation is mad under rated, the need to give it the REESPEKKT it deserves

His interactions with the merchants is hilarious especially at SUS 🤣

To break down the hip hop scene of this time, Def Jam was as a record label THE big dog in town. The Wal Mart of the market. Yea there were others (Roc A Fella, Bad Boy, Universal, Cash Money, No Limit, and so many others to name) but Def Jam was the biggest. They also have branches of their label so they have a hand in a lot of artists and labels and such. Russel Simmons was the head of it and Kimora ( who is in this game) is his lady.

Man I was dying through a lot of this. Hysterically funny.

LMAO THE LIL KIM VS CARMEN ENDING WHERE THEY DID THE SAME INVINCIBLE MOVES AT THE SAME TIME AND MAX SCREAMED HAD ME DYING.

The PS2/Gamecube/Xbox era had some of the greatest games of all time that have aged like wine. I've bee playing many PS2 games recently and I'm surprised by how well so many of them hold up to this day. Some were even more fun and had more content than modern games.

This game was my childhood lol. I cant count how many replays i have done on this game as a kid, Its the one game i regret losing track of due to it being such a rare find now a days to find a copy.

Watching max be awakened to his inner hood ninja was an absolute treat

One of the best fighting games ever made. Easily THE best wrestling game ever made. The Anarchy Reigns soundtrack works really well with this too.

This was one of my favorite, underrated gems of that year (2004). Story mode is basically the classic hip hop/turf war tale that features prominent hip hop/rap artists of the day in respective roles and fighting for D-Mob (Actor that is known for Kratos and Lee) and Crow (essentially a ruthless don version of Snopp Dogg) and you fight for D-Mob and Blaze (Method Man). This gets dark and brutal real fast (ranging from Subway Fun, to win you have to stun a person on a track at the right moment to get mutilated by an oncoming train or the climatic penthouse window battle where you have to knock the living shit out of the opponent into a window that breaks and spells their death) and playing it again, I found for newcomers, you have to go hard, fast, utilize the environment effectively, use the modifier to pull off different moves, and use the blaze mode for either a massive damage hit or if done right, KO. Matches can last either 30 seconds or a few minutes depending on how tough the opponent is. Glad people are discovering this one of a kind gem that you couldn't even make nowadays.

This game has the best character customization in the industry. The amount of options of how to customize a particular article of clothing is spectacular. Though the fashion might be dated the mechanics of this system beats it's modem day counter parts.

Everybody picks the dumb martial arts style and they never learn to knok out using flying or aerial takedowns, this game was a product of it's time and it was so freaking good to take your memory card to a friend's house and do tourneys, great chilhood times, also yeah the jeancos were the thing to wear, everybody was Fred Durst wanna be back in the day.

Max this story mode is awesome as you're essentially playing as a CaC underground fighter in what could be described as a awesome gripping crime drama.

Max is a man of culture, the amount of anarchy reigns music that played during the fights was great

I played the absolute crap out of this in my teen years. The memories…

Hearing Kratos call me a little Bitch and bashing me for playing video games is hysterical

This game was a straight banger back in the day. I borrowed it from one of my friends and played the absolute shit out of it. Spent a lot of late nights with this one. I hope there's a spiritual successor to this someday.

Max : this is kinda fucking sick Entire gaming community: now you know why we all want another Def jam game or a remaster of Fight for NY

I played this is in highschool. Had a fun time watching and getting nostalgia bumps. I wish they would add this to the PS4 Now or something.

aw man just watching this makes me want to play this game again. Was so fun. Best wrestling game to this very day imo. I know copyright issues stop it from coming back (along with Def Jam Icon failing miserably) but it'd be awesome to see some sort of spiritual successor to this.

Max, reversal-ing a throw is just done by doing a strike. And "crowd-interaction kills" are done by hitting an enemy into the crowd where they're slumped over, and then grappling them.

4:20 “before the method man song completely takes down my channel “ LOL

Just realized from watching the opening credits, the kratos is the voice actor for d-mob

I remember trying to get Dmobs fighting stance. His was so intimidating from the first game

I don't get it, and it's not isolated to this game. Why, when you have a winning formula in a game, why would you not do that again? Def jam was awesome, but im also looking at you netherrealm Conquest, street fighter world tour, dynasty warriors 5 xl, etc

3:38:29 That's the first time I've seen that in this game, that was amazing. So damn cool!

this game is incredible, and it had a lot of advanced gameplay options like parrys and counters

Hey Max! It is Joey Bag O' Donuts here! (The dude that was helping you learn how to play the game better when you were live streaming the game) I was so happy to see the 1st part of the def jam ffny video series posted! This was such a blast when you were streaming the game! Was really fun helping teaching you the game and seeing you enjoy this for the first time and it was also a lot of fun helping educate everyone in the chat too! I am really hyped for the CEO tourney coming up next week! Maybe some time me and you can play the game together if you would ever like? (I could be your tag team partner in a yo video games lol) ;) Anyways, this was an awesome time when it happened and I am loving reliving it through the vid and can't wait for the rest! :D

One of the things I loved in the Tekken entries was Tekken Force/Scenario Campaign mode. With SFVI’s World Tour mode, I hope they incorporate the beat ‘em up / Def Jam style fights in that mode.

I want more fighting games like this in the future.

God I love this game. I've replayed it over and over and over mixing different fighting styles, and trying to recreate my favorite rappers and rock stars.

This is my favorite fighting game of all time. One of my top 5 favorite games of all time. This game is truly exceptional and unique. That choose your girlfriend though, damn. I also like that you went from Heihachi to Guile in just one change.

This game was insane and honestly should be appreciated for helping push MMA when it was still “underground” and only barely starting to push towards the mainstream. They never named the moves really but to have armbars, heel hooks, and other submissions in this game is insane to me considering the time.

A thing I do at the Foundation is get my stamina/special meter up with taunts. Once it starts to slow down I grab the weapon on the subwoofer & then taunt a few more times before starting the fight. A faster way to build up the meter would be to grab that weapon 1st then taunt. Your opponent will stand there & watch you, you must move toward them to start the fight. More good advice - In the FFAs of 4 or 3, it's sometimes best to let 2 opponents fight each other. You can recover health & taunt to gain back stamina/special meter. Street Fighters are good for making lots of money, that is once you get good enough to play around with your opponent. Once I learned how to do this, I kept on beating my opponent, adding up the points (even as they kept on being low), & then once I was done I'd have thousands of dollars to my name.

this was cool AF to watch on stream , an old game that is a gem.

This game was honestly incredible, and I'm not even a hip hop fan. My favourite style was street fighter, nothing more satisfying than knocking someone out with a massive haymaker.

I remember expecting Ice-T to come out as an undercover cop in this game. But he barely had any parts in the story. It would make sense though, Law and order SVU, New Jack city and the clothes he wears in the game are definitely Fed attire

The character creation part was way too funny.

This will forever be my favorite video game. The first couple of memories I can remember are this game on the original Xbox

Come to think of it, I think the other fighting styles had easy access moves that result in a KO once they land in the danger zone. "Martial Arts" is technically starting off with Hard Mode.

8 Mile: Revengeance

Certified nostalgia! Max steps into the hood!

They need to make a sequel to this. This time with a better character creation mode. One that allows you to do more than pick your fighting style. Where you can customize your character's moveset.

Def Jam: Fight for New York is such an underappreciated fighting game, great to see Max reminding everyone what a brilliant fun bada@$ game this is. Why ea never made another fighting game like this I'll never know. Oh wait that's right I do know why ea never made another fantastic fighting game like this, because they're ea after all.

My favorite game of all time. I still play it to this day.

Man that leg parry around 1:30:09 looked really good. Its the little things that just makes me say “damn that’s nice”

Man chat made it hard for him starting with martial arts... Street fighting and kickboxing instant knockout potential is so useful

Thanks for checking out this classic max, lots of parents probably werent happy about this game lmao but this was a huge part of my childhood and honestly probably one of the first "fighting" games I ever played of my own volition. The single player was revolutionary for the time

This game is still alot of fun. I remember it was so much trash talking back and forth with friends playing this. I wished at it's height in popularity. It would have had a small tournament in the old Evo days.

Every other version aside from the Gamecube version let's you change the voice of your character. Such an amazing classic. Ice-T is an insane difficulty spike for sure.

When I got it in my youth, I knew almost no onr of those. American rap wasnt that big in my coutry so I vaguely knew maybe Snoop Dog and Ice-T... Ad wasnt a fan of rap music. Game still blew my mind and was my favorite for a loooong time. Amazing arena interactivily, lots of movesets, ability to levelup and customise your character tied into storyline, crazy stulish. I still dream of games like that. But never again I met such a masterpiece.

just to correct the intro, Def Jam didn’t have every big rapper in the early 2000s, they did have huge names though. The reason there’s so many rappers from other labels in this game is cuz the first game was huge so it was seen as exposure for the rapper/label to be in the sequel. Def Jam Vendetta was mostly all Def Jam rappers but FNY expanded out of DJ.

I played this game when i was a child, I remember thinking this game was impossibly difficult, even on easy, years later, replaying it, realized that i never spent 1 dev point.

One of the best games of all time! No Cap!

I thought I was just going to play this in the background to give the view, but this game actually looks amazing. Seeing the learning process into eventually taking down the tougher opponents has been a ride.

This game is so entertaining

@1:09:30 I just about died of laughter. The stars aligned

Holy crap that Art!!! Plus being a huge fan of this game for a long time I'm so happy to see other people try it out and absolutely give it a chance, and pretty much enjoy it as much as I did maybe even more👌🏾

It's funny, I'm just replaying this now and you posted it. Perfect timing lol! This game was such a huge part of my childhood. Glad to see it being rediscovered and given more appreciation. Can't wait to see more!

I watched the stream and seeing this again is just awesome. Max's reaction on everything in the story is hilarious. Back when you had to play the game to gain progress instead of using your credit card like every damn game today.

It’s honestly gonna be impossible for a company to make this game again. From voice acting, to all hip hop clothing brands, to the soundtrack. They even had Jacob branded jewelry. It’s freaking nuts. But here’s to wishing

IT'S FINALLY HERE!!! Def Jam Fight For New York is cemented in gaming history for Max and i'm 100% here for it!! Thank you Max for giving this game it's spotlight and opportunity❤️❤️😭🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

Max: “he’s low as shit dude” His opponent: “alright, time to be ridiculous”

Snoop is OP af in this game.

The even crazier thing is AKI would go on to become syn Sophia and make the Style Savvy and PriPara game. Absolutely wildest trajectory of a game developer.

The transition of Max and Ice-Ts relationship: Starting: I HATE HIM! I Hate him!!! Ending Ice-T, THE HERO!!!

"What would Hood Max do?" is not the timeline i thought i would live in.

This is an outright hilarious playthrough. The game is great, the story is funny, and the reaction to everything being so early 2000s is amazing. I cannot wait for part 2. Seriously. This is great stuff, Max.

OH a core memory this game is 😭 I'm so glad Max is playing it. Man this was a great 4 hours

Aww man, I get why the mute but this game had some awesome music. I can still remembering walking out to fight fat joe with the intro to “take a look at my life”. That ah*t was so legendary lol

I ran one of the arcades Max visited many years ago. The mention of Hiachi in the diaper at the end of TEKKEN 4 brought me back with some laughs. Good $#!+ on the laughs of that memory.

I'm sure watching Max obliterate Sean Paul serves as catharsis by proxy for some viewers who remember getting laid out by him back in the day.