Def Jam: Fight for New York OWNS your white ass

This is really, really good. It's definitely the most fun fighting game I've ever played, and the game that "Fight Club" prays it will be when it is released. Listing all of the fighters would be way too tough, but how about I list a few such as...

DANNY F'N TREJO


Something for the ladies.

Man did they ever do a good job with this guy's face.

Flava Flav and Erick Sermon are in it as well, which makes old school fans of hip hop, like myself, happy. I don't proclaim to be "gangsta" or whatever shit like that, but this game makes me want to load on the bling and get tons of tattoos. The insane amount of music is great too. Normally I'd hate on some of the conceprts of the game, such as needing to give Jacob the Jewler a bunch of scratch becasue you need jewelery to build up your charisma, but it's just a seamless part of this game, like going Dark Side in Knights of the Old Republic. Also, I really enjoyed making Omar Epps tap out. The game really needed M.O.P, just so "Ante Up" could have been on the soundtrack. That might be my biggest criticism. Anyway, it's on all three platforms, so GET IT NOW.
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I was watching Triple H versus Shelton Benjamin from RAW last night, trying to reconcile what I swear are memories of Shelton having fairly groovy offense as a tag heel with the match in front of me, where it looked like his left arm was dead and all could think of to do was PUNCH PUNCH PUNCH. And Jim Ross talking about his NCAA amateur cred while he's PUNCH PUNCH PUNCHing created even more cognitive dissonance. Where did all of his nifty transitions go? Wrestlers are so much less interesting as faces.
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Yeah, that's all for today, really. Again, FIGHT FOR NEW YORK. NOW.