Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7739 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-03-23
• Rating: To Be Announced
• Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Manufacturer's Description
In collaboration with urban lifestyle powerhouse Def Jam Interactive, EA Chicago - the team behind the critically acclaimed EA SPORTS Fight Night series - is integrating hip hop culture and gaming like never before. With the hottest music seamlessly infused into the world around you, the game's environments pulsate, crumble, and explode to life with every bone-jarring beat. Time your attacks to the driving bass and use falling debris and exposed environmental hazards to pound your rivals.

Featuring an all-new single-player story, the game takes you deep into the life of a high-rolling hip hop mogul to build a record label, discover new superstars, and become a hip hop icon.

Infusing hip-hop music, culture and lifestyle into the gameplay, EA Chicago and Def Jam Interactive continue to push the boundaries of game development bringing unique and innovative content to the next generation of gaming, changing the way fighting games are played.

Customer Reviews

Stylish but no substance
Def Jam ICON is fun in short bursts. But ultimately, it's a shallow, sluggish fighting game which can frustrate immensely.
The fairly deep fighting system of earlier Def Jam games has been replaced by more OTT grappling. This makes ICON more fun to pick up and play, but is much easier to master.

More effort has been made with the single player mode than previously. The Build a Label mode gives the option to release records and sign artists like Ludacris and T.I. As the game progresses, the needs of your chosen artists have to be catered for, although this involves nothing more than saying Yes or No to something. Shops and jewellery stores offer limited levels of customisation and the fighting environments are imaginative and well designed. The scratch ability also links the music and the action imaginatively.

Yet like most EA games, ICON is highly polished, but lacks any real depth.

Meh.....
I loved Def Jam: Fight For NY, it had everything; good graphics, BLAZIN moves, weapons, environmental attacks, good grapples and a great story. This however has only two of these features; Great Graphics (every fighter being fully rendered with every detail possible) and a good story. I've looked forward too this game since Fight For NY came out!! but i am dissapointed. It has no blazin moves, weapons, environmental attacks and the only grapples are small little tackedowns that dont really give u an advantage.

To me, i think this game will fun at first, but when you get bored of just throwing an opponent into something when there is a bass hit in the song... there will be nothing left to satisfy you..

I hope that the next Def Jam (if there is one) will be made by the spectacular EA (not EA Chicago) and it can get back to fighting's incredible underground roots.

Def Jam, Slightly dissapointed.
Unlike Def Jam: Fight for NY there are no weapons, also the game is trying to be too realistic were as in Fight for New York It was a very fun game which I could play on end. Overall ICON has amazing graphics and was merged Hip-Hop and fighting well. But its 'fighting' and not wrestling.