The first thing that you tend to notice when looking at the rather diverse line-up is that it is comprised of mostly people who are not affiliated with the Def Jam Label. A few Hollywood actors make appearances as characters in the story mode, including actor Anthony Anderson, who does an excellent job as playing the main villain Troy Dollar. The game includes Big Boi, The Game, Ghostface Killah, Lil Jon, Ludacris, Method Man, Mike Jones, Paul Wall, Redman, T.I., just to name a few. This edition of the Def Jam franchise defiantly aims to please with its very diverse array of playable and non-playable characters. With Def Jam: Icon, EA has definitely tarnished the platinum album just a bit. It took all the pluses from the first incarnation and added more great things to go along. Fight for New York added a deeper story mode and different fighting techniques. With the sequel they bumped the volume up to 11. Developed with the help of Aki, who is famous for their WWE games? It seamlessly blended the two worlds of Hip-Hop and underground fighting. So it is we come to the Def Jam series.Īs I said above the first Def Jam, was great. From Russia with Love had all the things to make it great but somehow just ended up being mediocre. Everything or Nothing was a great example of James Bond done right. Now we come to their latest Opus, Def Jam Icon.Īs I have said in the past and as you will hear me say in the upcoming podcast, what is it about EA and taking a giant leap forward in game innovation and then taking two giant leaps back?!? For instance SSX3 was a great game, SSX On Tour-.not so much. Surprisingly this vinegar and water mixture actually worked out. It had all the music and stylings of Hip-Hop, with the fighting mechanics of a wrestling game. Very poor lip-syncing in the cutscenes, sometimes the character's mouth doesn't move at all when they speak.Few years back Def Jam came out of nowhere with its first came Def Jam Vendetta.Very poor hair and chain physics, in which the hair ends up glitching for a bit and the chains around a character's neck clipping right through a character's torso.As your character always gets harassed by two detectives Wheatly and Greer in which are rehashes of Jervis and Starks from that previous game. Lackluster story, in which is somewhat rehashed from Def Jam Fight For NY: The Takeover.There was no excuse that the roster had to be slimmed down, since Icon was on more powerful hardware, unlike the previous instalment. In Def Jam: Fight for NY, that game had 67 playable characters.In which many of the original characters from the other two games didn't return. Very small roster, it only has 29 playable characters.As for character customization, there are less stuff to choose from.Your character only has one voice choice for this game, which is a major downgrade from Def Jam: Fight for NY which allowed you to choose between six different voice choices.
As for Blazin moves, they got removed from the game. In Icon, they can taunt to set off explosions to the world around them. The fighting system for the game is revamped, but into making the game way less realistic unlike the other two games.Which is mainly the cause of the game not being as good as the two previous games. The development of the game was given to a different development studio named EA Chicago instead of AKI Corporation who developed the previous two games.
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