Def Jam Icon

by Electronic Arts

Product Features

• Beats trigger interactive hazards around you as your environment comes alive -- from exploding gas pumps to spinning helicopter propellers, taking advantage of your surroundings is just as important as your toe-to-toe fighting skills
• Use the analog sticks like turntables to add beats, switch songs, and make music your weapon
• Throw down blistering attacks and brutal combos with the next-gestural street fighting system
• Build an empire and live the life of a music mogul by signing artists, managing their careers, and releasing their hit songs
• Upload any song to create an endless soundtrack that drives the core fighting mechanics

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000MAFXU0
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches ; 4 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: March 6, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,389 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #61 in Video Games > PlayStation 3 > Action > Fighting
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PLAYSTATION 3

Amazon.com

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.

FEATURES

• Musically Charged Combat—Beats trigger interactive hazards around you as your environment comes alive and reacts to the music. From exploding gas pumps to spinning helicopter propellers, taking advantage of your surroundings is just as important as your toe-to-toe fighting skills. Become one with the beats to rule the streets.
• DJ Controls—Use the analog sticks like turntables to add beats, switch songs, and make music your weapon. Throw down blistering attacks and brutal combos with the next-gestural street fighting system.
• Fight to Your Own Beat—Battle to your own music or against the music of a friend. Upload any song to create an endless soundtrack that animates the environment and drives the core fighting mechanics. Prove once and for all who’s music’s king in the first authentic video rap battle.
• Become a Hip Hop Icon—From the writers of 24 and Training Day, build an empire and live the life of a music mogul by signing artists, managing their careers, and releasing their hit songs. Do whatever it takes to become an ICON in the world of hip hop. But beware—you never know who is watching you.
• Hip Hop’s Best—Fight with or against the biggest stars in hip hop. Artists like Ludacris, T.I., Paul Wall, The Game, Big Boi, and more are all instrumental in your building a record label and becoming a hip hop ICON.

Product Description

Incorporating hip-hop culture into every aspect of the game, Def Jam: Icon delivers the intensity of a no-holds-barred street fight but with style and rhythm. Players can live out the life of a hip hop mogul, going from rags to riches. Music will effect how players fight in each venue and environmental interactions and hazards will become a key strategy to staying alive.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Superficially fun, June 29, 2008

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Inspector Gadget "Go Go Gadget Reviews" (On the trail of Doctor Claw) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Def Jam Icon (Video Game)

Def Jam Icon is one of the shallowest games I've played in years and is highly repetitive and boring.

You get to create what your character looks like but you have to be male and you must be some shade of black/mixed. This character then goes through the trials and tribulations of becoming a big-shot music producer and you fight your way through all the confrontations in between.

Sounds like it might make a good game but it's VERY linear and pretty much every decision you make in the management half of the game has little or no effect on anything. How good would it be to download your own tunes onto the PS3 and mix them into new tracks for the game? Tough, you can't.

There are about 10 different environments to fight in but they all get rather tiresome after the millionth battle and there are never any really cool moments when you interact with the crumbling area. Def Jam Icon is all flash and no substance I'm afraid, I actually liked Def Jam Fight for NY a lot better.

Graphics B
Sound B
Gameplay C
Lasting Appeal D-

1.0 out of 5 stars Just a silly game, December 10, 2011

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Peter D "pdesil" (Florence, KY) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Def Jam Icon (Video Game)

I can not take this game seriously. Its too funny the way the environments move with the music. Its hilarious I just find it unbelievable that EA would put out a game this bad the controls suck so bad the computer always has the upper hand. If you can find this game for 99 cents and you don't have a coke machine close by to better spend this money its a good item to make your game collection look more full. It can be just like mine a decoration

1.0 out of 5 stars HA, July 23, 2011

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DJamez - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Def Jam Icon (Video Game)

my son likes this game....why i have no idea. lol i got it used for 6 or 7 bucks so no big loss , and i know the games old now. i just cant believe how def jam went from fight for ny , vendetta to .........this? the musics good. the fighting, controls, the build your own label story i mean TERRIBLE . ALMOST LAUGHABLE.

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