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With an absolutely bonkers story mode (how they got all of the personalities involved to sign off on the insane events of the story is beyond my understanding – but money talks, which EA understands better than almost any other video game company, even today), a huge roster of fighters and fighting styles, along with tons of licensed in-game merchandise to unlock, Def Jam: Fight for NY might seem a little out of place on the list of Best PS2 Fighting Games.īut it’s actually a strong, perhaps underrated contender and these days, it’s a fascinating window into hip hop and celebrity culture just a few years after the turn of the millennium. Capcom vs SNK 2: Mark of the Millennium 2001 (2001)įrom fighting game companies taking each other on in video game form, we head to New York – where real world recording artists duke it out in almost wrestling-style bouts for supremacy.įeaturing not just real life rappers and other musicians (along with a few non-musical celebrities for good measure), Def Jam: Fight for NY was the sequel to the well-received Def Jam: Vendetta. Online play completed the very generous package of features and modes in Mortal Kombat: Deception, which most definitely earned its place on the list of the best PS2 fighting games.
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The series had also moved away from arcades too, with the fifth game in the series – Deadly Alliance, the precursor to Deception – being the first to be developed for consoles only.ĭeception was full of the diverse characters, elaborate combos, gory finishing moves and dark humour that the series was known for – and, just like the previous game, also featured a campaign (Konquest mode) and generous mini-games, all of which could almost have been released as full games in their own right (with the mini-games this time around comprising the Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo-esque Puzzle Kombat and the surprisingly compelling chess-based game, Chess Kombat). When Mortal Kombat: Deception was published, twelve years on from the original game, the controversy had long since died down – and the series had moved on from the dated digitised graphics, using 3D polygonal models for its, um, Kombatants instead.
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FINISH HIM! Mortal Kombat arrived in the arcades in early 90s and proved to be an almost immediate sensation, with its digitised graphics of real actors performing their moves and headline-grabbing, controversy-courting, deliberately over-the-top gore.Īlongside Sega CD game Night Trap, Mortal Kombat was the catalyst for the formation of the ESRB in America, the organisation which sets the advisory age ratings for video games.