Def Jam Vendetta took the fighting engine AKI had perfected in its wrestling games and combined it with a cast of rappers and hip-hop figures from Def Jam Recordings - DMX, Method Man, Redman, Ludacris - thrown into an underground street-fighting tournament, with a combat system that rewarded rhythm and reading the opponent over combo memorization. It earned its own place within the PS2-era fighting genre thanks to that uncommon mix of hip-hop culture and technical wrestling mechanics, and it's still remembered as one of the console's best music-licensed games.
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