This game couldve been better, but they didnt add anything to the series. In fact, they took out some game modes.
Since the Def Jam series is known for good street fighting games, EA chicago decided to change it a bit, more towards fighting for music artists and for personal purposes more than just clubs and making money from them. Icon also brings us a new feature, never used before. Known as the DJ controls, you are able to make the level "explode" and try to throw your opponent into the hazardous, exploding, environment by simply rotating the left and right analog sticks. The health bar has also been removed, so characters can only take a surtain amount of damage. Weapons have also been removed, unfortumately. And the characters in the game went more towards commercial rappers such as E-40, instead of underground rappers such as Xzibit, since the previous games were more towards the underground culture of rap.
The mutiplayer in this game wasnt as good as we hoped but thats ok, since theres not many features you can put into online play.
Icon takes out a lot of cool features that were in the previous games and attempts to make better content such as the DJ controls, but doesnt take it much further, unfortunately. Maybe sticking it to the previous styles and adding more wouldve been better.