A perfect show of a good series, gone terrible.
The gameplay of this game is completely different then it's prequel, which is not a good thing at all. The fighting system has completely slowed down, with slow punches and poor kicks. Unlike it's prequels, the character's in Icon don't seem to have different roles in combat. They all seem to fight very similarly with a very small difference. The first two installments of the Def Jam series however, were quite different. Each character had a unique fighting style, whether street-fighting or wrestling or many more, which were completely un-alike. It was this element that greatly signified the Def Jam games to be good as they were now, but Icon greatly dissapointed.
The graphics are quite good though, but it seems to be the only thing that is quite an improvement from it's predecessors. Other then that, this game will only dissapoint.
In conclusion, the graphics are quite neat, but what's the point if there isn't any proper gameplay to back it all up?