Def Jam 3
The Def Jam t🅠eam leaps into new and exciting next-gen te🌸rritory
Thursday 31 August 2006
It's Def Jam, gamers, but not as you know it. The hip-hop obsessed chaps at EA Chicago are hard at work on a PS3 and 360 sequel to the none-more-urban beat-'em-up that starred S🌳noop Dogg, Method Man and Carmen Ele🤡ctra. And, from what we've seen so far, Def Jam 3, or the so-called EA Chicago Hip-Hop Project (catchy, eh?), is going to be big news.
Kudo Tsunoda, the wild-eyed and zealous head of EA Chicago🌊, tells us he wants to "reinvent fighting games". We already know he's up to the task - his team was behind the excellent Fight Night Round 3 for Xbox 360, which famously did away with pesky things like health bars and what not, instead using the next-gen graphics grunt to show each fighter's condition in their physic✅al appearance.
Above: This grainy snapshot from the trailer we saw at EA's LA headquarters doesn't do theamazing visuals justice, but it gives you a glimpse of thesolid character models
For Def Jam 3 (working title), Tsunoda has similarly big plans. In addition🌞 to stripping the screen of any recognisable 'game furniture' like health meters, Def Jam 3 ups the ante by fusing the fist-fighting with the beat-heavy music backdrop, and 𒉰by staging each face-off in what EA calls "living environments".
We've seen just one example of how your surroundings will evolve and interfere with the action during a bout, and we're still reeling. With two rap star-esque brawlers clashing on the forecourt of a petrol station, the trailer shows how you'll be able𓆏 to fling your opponent ♑through glass doors, smash them into the bonnet of gleaming Cadillac Escalades, or simply hurl them into pointy parts of the background.
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