Game Idea: Rap Jam vol. 2!!
Remember Rap Jam? The 16-bit basketball game that featured rappers instead of people who were actually good at basketball? The game was subtitled "vol. 1", suggesting that other volumes were on the way. They never came, but with my new idea, the time is now....
The cornerstone of the Rap Jam series is featuring well known rappers excelling with superhuman ability in circumstances which they don't have any actual real-life professional aptitude for. But now that basketball has been done, where to go? The next logical step: fighting games.
The game would be fully polygonal, because as all game publishers know, that guarantees big sales. Players would choose tag teams of rappers. Here's a few:
Team 1:
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The original rap super group returns - it's Chuck D and Flava Flav, of Public Enemy fame! Flava's clock can be wielded as a deadly weapon, and he can use his beer-filled baby bottle to regain health, drunken style!
Team 2:
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The indomitable vanilla Ice, and...
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Snow! Together, they make the tag team supreme. Whether taking down fools with Vanilla's "Word to your mutha" super, or Snow's "MeNoSayDaddyMeSnowMeI'mGonnaBlame" hyper-combo, these two will prove they're as black as any other white man out there. And who doesn't want to be Vanilla Ice? Or at least beat him up with...
Team 3:
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...the guy who's about to punch their lights out, Ice Cube! With his zombie-gangsta homeboy:
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Str8 off tha streetz of muthaphukkin' Compton (his words, not mine) and back from the grave, it's Eazy-E! Their tag-team combos are deadly - the "Dope Man" has Eazy stun his opponent by having them snort a gigantic bag of crack, while 'Cube nails 'em with tha bop-gun. Dang! But just to show you I haven't forgotten the other member of NWA anybody can still name, here's...
Team 4:
http://www.dr-dre.com/images/pics/misc/11.jpg
Str8 out of pretending they went to jail, it's Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre! Snoop's "Doggy style" fatality must be seen to be believed! But even they will have a hard time with the all singing, all dancing -
Team 5:
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It's Hammer Time! But even though Hammer's gone soft since turning to Jesus and cocaine, if opponents get past him, his partner will make them "feel his vibrations" -
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It's the for-some-reason-always-in-his-underwear star of the Funky Bunch, Marky Mark! His moves...suck. What did you expect?
The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world where early-nineties rap, buried in a time capsule, is the only music to have survived. The rappers are hailed as musical heroes, but in this savage new world they must battle to earn the title "King of Fighting Rappers"! When players select their characters, they say their catch-phrases - Flava screams "YEAAAAHHHH BOOYYEEEE!!" at the top of his lungs, while Eazy tells 'em "you ain't nuthin' but a dirty-ass ho, you muthafuckin' skank-ass loose-pussy bitch!"
As you can see, the possibilities for this concept are endless - I haven't even brought up Kriss Kross, Maestro Fresh-Wes, Rob Base and DJ Easy Rock, or that one guy from C & C Music Factory. But since this is a project still in the early stages, anybody have any other ideas for Rap Jam vol. 2: Dream Rap Never Ends?
