How are you gonna create a great game like def jam fight for ny, but when you hit next gen, you take out eveything that made people like the def jam series in the first place. where is the blazin special? what about the interactive crowd handing you weapons and holding your opponet for you to really damage them? nooooo they want to make a ghetto fight night basically with buildings and gas stations that have built in sub woofers. im sorry if you do like this game, but you cannot say its better than def jam 1 or 2 and thats a fact! i hope, NO I PRAY that EA games goes back to the original roots of the def jam franchise and create a great next gen game, if you agree or disagree with what im saying please reply, thanks in advance for reading.

Agree

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Bring Def Jam FFNY to BC!

fully agree.. its a good game... but ... they took almost all the fighting joy and put in simplicity.... there was so much variation and har bashes on the previous.. when u grab him and shoves his head in a speaker then stomp it! so nice feeling.... they just made every throw so ugly! combos and hard his are okey.. but its not enough to make it last for very long.. when i played fight for new york.. i just played played played.. new characters combining styles experimenting.. ALL OF IT IS GONE!!! *cry*

 

And why is becouse the team behind fight night made the combat part... ...............

*sad*

110% agree. they murdered the def jam game franchise, imo. the fighting in this game makes me wanna break my controller sometimes.

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"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

yeah. i was really disappointed when i played it. i was looking forward to playing a game with a great engine like the previous installments, but this game just blows.

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I don't know Butchie instead.

i agree also. FNY was def. a better fighting game. but the thing i like about icon is the music and how the enviroment interact with it. if they could put that in a def jam more like NY then it would be the best.

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That's right monkey, play my head.

Made me laugh when u called it a ghetto fight night lol but it sums it up well.

I just bought this game last night and had a quick go. Started getting into it. I ain't played previous def jam games so can't really compare.

Are the older xbox versions compatible with the 360?

Original def jam games were extremely violent, where this on has went far to much for the fight night feel.... ghetto fight night for sure... Im dissapointed its not what I expected, but sayin that im glad I bought it... its still a decent game with cool stuff in it, just went to far from the originals.

Nope they not BC last time I checked (month or two ago).

Who said it was supposed to be like fight for new york? Perhaps they're trying to evolve?

 mefflecakes wrote:

Who said it was supposed to be like fight for new york? Perhaps they're trying to evolve?

Well, they failed.

And to the other guy, Def Jam FFNY isn't Backwards Compatible yet.

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Bring Def Jam FFNY to BC!

I've never played another one of the def jam games but I'm happy with a "ghetto fight night"

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Go Cards!

who agrees that using the right analog stick for attack moves is a joke and should never be used in fighting games. for some reason it seems it responds slower trying to move it in the right direction and doesnt always perform the move you wanted.

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"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

i agree

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HIBERNIAN F©

this seems to be the worst fighting game I've ever played and possiby EA's biggest let-down to date , I may never even RENT an EA game again.

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 RARA CUZZ wrote:

who agrees that using the right analog stick for attack moves is a joke and should never be used in fighting games. for some reason it seems it responds slower trying to move it in the right direction and doesnt always perform the move you wanted.

 

I agree man, I hated the original controls to FN round 3 too and I always changed em. But your kinda stuck with it on this game, I've got used to it now tho.

doesnt it always seem like the computer always knows what move your gonna make and always seems to know when to block high or low and grab you when your trying to block his attacks? i must be bad at this game becuse i just cant get the controls down, and if i do win, i win by a hair.

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"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

How can you say it's sad. I think it's better than fight for ny.

 Agent Smith z wrote:

How can you say it's sad. I think it's better than fight for ny.

YOU!!  GET out right NOW!!!  Don't you ever say that again you hear me!?

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Bring Def Jam FFNY to BC!

Been playing this on a free rental for a couple of days and I gotta agree it's a letdown. It's got visual style, love the exploding environments and all but the AI is cheap as *** and the core fighting mechanics suck. I was having fun with it at first, but it just gets more and more awkward and frustrating over time.

 RARA CUZZ wrote:

110% agree. they murdered the def jam game franchise, imo. the fighting in this game makes me wanna break my controller sometimes.

same here bro.. i was playin today and the lack of control over my character made me wanna throw my controller through the screen. ive never said this before.. but a video game ruined my entire day

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HellBound

I liked having more grappling moves and blazin' moves.  Just seems like you could do more in FFNY, like making your character stronger, add moves, etc.  This one is boring after you know how to play.  I'm going to get rid of it post haste.  Waste of money, IMO.

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Formerly Dyuhrea

Its alrite, the story mode sucks, u just have to fight everyone for no reason. "paul wall is going to talk to lil jon, go throw him into the speakers and blow him away"- never makes any sense. Multiplayer is alright, im quite gd at the game, probably on the day i was the better button basher anyways.......

i totally agree, i got icon two days ago started playing it and i was like this is soo different and to be honest i got really annoyed with the gameplay. i love fight for new york but this is just terrible, its not even four player which annoys me even more! im sorry but this game has disappointed me soo much! they have well and truly wrecked the def jam series.

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"America, America, America, I charge you with the crime of ***, murder, and assault." - Tupac Shakur

how do  you hit somebody in a certain direction? it seems the computer is able to hit you in any direction he chooses and it always seems to be towards hazards. it gets annoying because the book doesnt really explain the moves really. the ai sometimes seems impossible to beat because they always know where to block or when to grab and when to kick high or low. 

 

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"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

For the first time in a good while, I bought a game without reading reviews, basing my judgement on the fantastic predecessor FFNY.

I was wrong. What a waste of my money.

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People are strange,
When you're a stranger

 SneakyGoblin wrote:

For the first time in a good while, I bought a game without reading reviews, basing my judgement on the fantastic predecessor FFNY.

I was wrong. What a waste of my money.

Agreed what a waste of money

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"America, America, America, I charge you with the crime of ***, murder, and assault." - Tupac Shakur

All i had 2 do was play the demo of it and figured it that it sucks...i only rented it cuz i had a free rental lol...the gameplay sucks the story mode is pathetic, u fight people for no reason and the story mode didnt get good til the end when u can change ur appearance but it went downhill once i saw that right after i beat the cop i had 2 fight him again...yall wasting ur money by buying it when yall can jus rent it...this game is worth renting, I turned the game back in once i beated the story mode 

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 xDishNShoot24x wrote:

All i had 2 do was play the demo of it and figured it that it sucks...i only rented it cuz i had a free rental lol...the gameplay sucks the story mode is pathetic, u fight people for no reason and the story mode didnt get good til the end when u can change ur appearance but it went downhill once i saw that right after i beat the cop i had 2 fight him again...yall wasting ur money by buying it when yall can jus rent it...this game is worth renting, I turned the game back in once i beated the story mode 

frickin A

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"America, America, America, I charge you with the crime of ***, murder, and assault." - Tupac Shakur

 RARA CUZZ wrote:

how do  you hit somebody in a certain direction?

 

That's what directional attacks are for, using the right analogue stick forces the opponent in the direction you move it. For example, moving the stick right and up will do a high attack forcing your opponent to the right. Moving the stick left then down will do a low attack forcing the oppenent left. If you press back then forward on the stick, it will do a low attack forcing your opponent backwards. The key to this game is understanding how all the controls work and using them efficiently in a fight.
I agree that the game does have a lot of flaws, but I presonally think it's still one of the best fighting games to date. I enjoyed FFNY and can understand why people don't like ICON because it's so different. I'm enjoying the game and I'm happy that I bought it.

Peace out

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Peace out

i rented tis game and took it back not even ten min later. complete waste of a game