They were the team responsible for WWF No Mercy and WrestleMania 2000, widely regarded as the best wrestling games ever made. Now known as syn Sophia, AKI were the undisputed lords of the wrestling game genre, having worked on licensed wrestling games for both WCW and WWE (then known as WWF). While we’re not going to go into the history of the actual Def Jam recording label, the background of the game series begins with the AKI Corporation in the mid to late 90s. Today, we’re wondering if we’ll ever see a new Def Jam game, and if it’ll actually be any good. Like the majority of games we feature in these retrospective articles though, Def Jam disappeared not too long after it first broke out, leading to a lot of fans begging for the series to make a comeback in some way. It’s a weird concept, sure, but one that managed to spawn three full games and a PSP port. Oh, and also Danny Trejo, Henry Rollins and Christopher Judge pre-Kratos playing the gangster D-Mob. Gamers or even just hip hop fans from the early to mid-2000s will no doubt harbour some kind of nostalgia for the Def Jam series, the half fighting game, half wrestling game that featured many of-the-era rap artists beating the snot out of each other.
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