Def Jam: Icon

[Andrew Sweeney]

At all costs, please avoid this game.

I loved Vendetta, played it for a good chunk of time. Rented Icon last night and was appalled at the lack of originality, play mechanics, and... well, most everything else.

[wadew1]

Is Aki still involved with these games?
The first one was a lot of fun. Then they started to fuck around with the gameplay for some reason.

[dontEATnachos]

I downloaded the demo for this and felt bad for having disturbed so many electrons for such an uninteresting piece of software.

[Blunt]

Is Aki still involved with these games?


Nope, EA gave the franchise to EA Chicago (makers of Fight Night) with Icon.

[Greg David]

I played Fight For New York to death, and I had high hopes for this. But this "revolutionary" music-timing fight mechanic just sounds gimmicky and stupid to me. It sounds like a case of a new developer wanting to do something different just to separate themselves from the people they inherited the project from. Fuck that. I just wanted a good fighting game with cool music. Was that too much to ask?

[Russ Fischer]

I love the look.

The game is totally pants. It gets worse the more you play.