From IGN.com: "We like where they're going with this."
That's the first thing that came to mind when the guys from EA Chicago, namely Fight Night's Kudo Tsunoda, showed off his team's next big project, Def Jam: Icon. Though it's still early in production, Icon takes an approach to the fighting genre that we've never seen before... or more specifically, heard.
Developed from the ground up using bits and pieces of the Fight Night engine, Icon does away with Aki's old influence and mechanics to create something new. EA Chicago is big on using the analog sticks, after all, so most of the game's control stems from the idea of using those. But before we get into that, let's talk a bit about Def Jam's most unique feature -- its treatment of music and how it relates to the in-match action.
You see, rather than just use the musical score as a supplement to the foreground it actually influences every aspect of the contest. As hip-hop blares over the speakers, a built-in equalizer detects its beats and rhythms, which then forces the entire environment to move along with it. And when we say "entire environment," we mean it. In the demo we were given, for example, recording artists Big Boi and Ludacris were throwing down to the backdrop of a gas station in the middle of a sprawling urban city. But as the music thumped over our 7.1 system, the buildings, cars, people, and every other object bounced along in tempo..."
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.
looks interesting at best !!!
i am not too interested in this game (just too many other games coming out @ this point that i want).
but i would like to comment that Fight Night's Kudo Tsunoda is the only guy @ EA that is not going half a$$, imo.
And this topic is about three months old cause the video has been demostrated.