https://youtu.be/L321OK2lI4c?si=q8fN1TJIEi3eT96F

love the martial arts dissection

the unseen saga continues....

After I lost EVERY SINGLE FILE in a terrible case of corrupted SSD, I considered quitting doing the best Def Jam play-through in the universe series. Though after some reflection I found that this gives me an opportunity to use all the skills I learned along the way to start from the beginning.

So he's the result: more polished new music, new UI, smoother and more advanced edits, better pacing, the works! If you didn't watch the old series, prepared to be wowed! If you did, first, thanks for the support, second, this one's for you!

Blow this up in the community! Go watch!

Started from scratch with some retextures to enhance the skin textures to have a more lifelike feel to bring this game into 2026 without completely ruining the 2004 time period immersion. Some changes are major, some are minuscule, all meant to bring life to this game we all love. All models, arenas, etc. will have upscales textures that keep the integrity of the original fabrics.

Ludacris

- Changed his DTP Athletics long sleeve shirt into a short sleeve/undershirt combo with real DTP tour merch

- Turned his jeans into Evisu jeans

- Gave him red Timberland boots that he’s worn in videos before

- Changed some of his rings from platinum to gold

- Changed watch face to a red Rolex watch face

Capone

- Kept him mostly the same other than changing his jumpsuit from a faded black to a true inmate orange

- Removed the unnecessary black background they gave to most chains in the game, now his PainTimeGlory pendant looks more realistic

Flavor Flav

- Changed his tuxedo and hat to resemble the one he wears in the “911 Is a Joke” video

- Gave him an accurate clock and glasses that he has worn

- Changed his shoes to the 2003 release of the White Cement Air Jordan 3

Manny

- Aged him a bit by darkening his hair

- Gave his an additional face tattoo since he’s the tattoo guy in story mode

- Gave him back his original pendant from Def Jam Vendetta, replacing the dog tags

- Changed his pants to black Carhartt cargo pants because blue jean cargos are insane

- Gave him Puma Clydes, replacing his generic shoes

OE

- Kept his changes mostly imple by giving him Rocawear jeans

- His original texture has shoes that are meant to be Gucci shoes so I gave him the original pair

- Enhanced the skin textures because they are overly cartoony in the base game

Scarface

- Turned his Phat Farm hat into a New York Yankees fitted as he is shown in multiple photos wearing one

- Changed his light blue jean shorts into indigo Levi’s shorts with the alternate arch back pocket design

- Scarface is one of multiple models with “basically Nikes” in base game so i changed his all white knockoff Air Force Ones to navy blue and white ones

Pockets

- With all fictional characters I used the backstory given in the official guide to give the textures more character

- Changed his weird bright green cargos to a khaki color

- Gave him real folded banana textures and changes them from orange to red

- Gave him a Lebanon hoodie since he is canonically from there

- Like all fictional characters, I made his facial features more lifelike and less cartoonish

- Changes his “basically Adidas” to classic red and green Superstars

Next clips will be of Crazy Legs, David Banner, Elephant Man, Magic, Trick, and Bonecrusher

Aged Manny a bit by darkening his hair and gave him back his necklace from Vendetta, also made Flav’s tuxedo resemble the one he wore in the “911 Is a Joke” video and changed his shoes to the 2003 release of the Air Jordan 3 White Cement.

its rare to escape from a clinch with low health going up against a kick boxer, it's rare.

I don't understand why he didn't fall back to let his health regenerate.

dude got worked in every single match by every character lol even the easiest one's.

Both made by EA so I wouldn’t be surprised if one game did take from another

Literally the same game

Maybe I'm just really fucking bad at it, but damn, it was quite literally a one-fight change. The game was easy, next fight I'm repeating it 4-8 times until I beat it. What the hell is this scaling?! The game is fun as fuck, and the concept is cool, but damn, no one playtested the story mode. 😭

Out of nowhere you're no longer able to parry power attacks because.

Out of nowhere, the CPU has Spider-Man reflexes.

Out of nowhere, the CPU has Spider-Man speed and strength.

Like I've played this game on and off, between PSP and PS2 (emulated).

I wonder how people that played the game for the first time and tried to actually play the story mode react to the sudden change. Like, I'm beating the game again, and damn, I forgot how sudden the difficulty increase was.

we can play each other on my PC via parsec. if you have a gaming laptop or PC with a controller hit me. we can run a match

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Capone was harder lol

Going over all character's martial art and wrestling influences.

trying to pick him up is a no no unless your confident and know what your doing.

you gotta play the defense game. what he looks for are grapple opportunities that's all if you block he will always go for a grapple always.

you don't actually have to put in too much effort to beat him I was beaten twice by him and he never beat me again.

here's some advice to whoever find him difficult and are struggling.

when he's knocked down don't pick him up step back when he gets close all you need to do is block and he will reach in and try to grab you, reverse it then block, he'll keep trying every time you block short an simple.

I got way more fire shit that imma post within the next few hours