From Joystiq.com : -- "Beyond the aesthetically pleasing environments is little more than a clunky, stand-up fighter that makes War Gods look like Virtua Fighter. Harking back to the early days of the 3D fighter, Icon is like watching two well-fed hobos fighting over some booze and then something explodes. Even the fighters themselves can't keep pace with the hectic, ever changing world around them. With such a lack of moves to perform, it's not like there's anything to hold them back. Like the era of fighting games it resonates, Icon is something we'd rather forget."
The Def Jam game series has been laying dormant for over a decade at this point, but could we ever see a revival of some kind?
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Fight for New York was awesome.
Icon was pretty bad, but I'll give them some benefit because they tried to do something new. A direct sequel to FFNY would be grand, though in the era of microtransactions and EA being who they are now, one should tread carefully about that fantasy.
I hear you, but the rappers nowadays are completely lame and corny when compared to the rappers from FFNY.
I rather take a remake from the game than a sequel.
You'll get no disagreement from me there.
For some reason, I hadn't considered that there would be modern rappers. Christ.
On the other hand, I wouldn't be mad if they added more Wutang members so I can "torture" Tekashi69. :D
we definitely need it to return, but nothing like Icon since that was trash. The mechanics of Def Jam fight for NY and Vendetta was still great til this day.
I hope so. Just go back to the Fight for New York style, and forget Icon ever happened.
Man I used to really love DJ Fight for NY and DJ Icon back in the day. I hope someone (not EA) can revive this franchise.
Icon sucks, I admit. But I used to love the DJ games so much that I was willing to accept any game thrown in my way.
Do you remember the Def Jam-licensed hip hop video game franchise released by EA Games? Def Jam Vendetta? Def Jam: Fight for NY? Def Jam: Icon? Well, the studio seems to be teasing the fourth entry by tweeting that a "special announcement" will be coming soon.
It won’t be the same, these rappers nowadays are corny as f$&k and they won’t hold the same weight as the rappers in the first two games.....Icon was trash.
Too true. I don't even think Def Jam has any artist now in days that would be worth playing as, and I'd rather not play as any of these clowns calling themselves artist today.
I'd definitely prefer a remake of the original games than a new one with all these rappers of today.
It would be cool if we can see Eminem and Machine Gun Kelly battling it out in the game, if Def Jam can somehow license those two into the game.
This seems like nothing but talk. I don't even think EA has the rights to make Def Jam games anymore. The last Def Jam Game was a sing a long game by Konami.
Def Jam: Fight for NY was badass. Played the shit out of that one. Icon was trash.
Just do a full remake of F4NY
The first two games were good. Since they were developed by AKI Corp.
The third game was made by EA Chicago, who made such a bad fighting game that EA abandoned their studio. Activision then bought the studio and they were renamed to Robomodo. They then proceeded to make 4 garbage Tony Hawk games in a row, and then shut down.
If there's another game, and its not made by AKI Corp., then move on.
I.had no idea they were also robomodo it all makes sense.
Still Def jam icon was passable I thought frustrating and unresponsive at times though it could have been worse and then konami made Def jam sing star
With the pretty much same rester with some new rappers like j.cole and kendrick.. and 69 just so I can beat his ass couple of times. Up to date graphics or the style of ICON and gameplay of fight for NY and we have a winner. But none of that will happen..
The record label appears to be stoking fan excitement over a new game in a few not so subtle tweets.
As long as it's more like Fight for NY and less like Icon. Hopefully they bring back AKI Corporation to develop it
Replies(2)Actually, just remake FFNY...
EA has lost its touch way back when...
Anything new would be pretty much crap full of MT...
Fight for NY was fantastic. Loved that game religiously.
Vendetta started a good thing, but DMX was more broken than Crow in Fight for NY (Snoop Dogg).
It all comes down to developer, and while EA Toronto did a great job with FFNY, I'm pretty sure they don't want anything more to do with the Def Jam series. Which is why we got Def Jam Icon from EA Chicago, and the guy behind the Xbox Kinect.
Fight for NY was an awesome game!! Even for a fighting game it had great replay ability. Sunk some serious hours into that game.
I was just jumping on the site this morning specifically to trash Def Jam Icon. The first game was a blast! Me and my friends played it for hours, non-stop... this newer version is a pile of trash. The demo has already been deleted.
Come on EA - use your imaginations to create NEW franchises, don't break things that aren't broken. 'Fight Night: Round 4 *** With Turntable Rewind'
Elecrtronic A$$holes! They need to dissapear. Hell I would play E.T. on the Atari before I played a game by them!
wow atleast I'm not the only one I never played the first game but I decided to try this out and I thought it was a joke from EA, it's soo lame, it's not even fun, and they don't even tell you how to play until AFTER you just played and than it hardly says anything. Fuc* you EA!
AKI are responsible for the best fighting engine bar none. The original Def Jam game used it & that's why it was as fun! The biggest ball dropper for this new mediocre game isn't the fact it's a clunker, it's that the controls have been horribly mapped & there doesn't seem to be a way (at least not in the demo) to end the fight! Incredibly dissapointing...
Aki used it for fight for NY and that game was better than Vendatta by far. Once they got rid of AKI i knew this sh1t was a wrap.
Pure Trash.