Remix! When Hip-Hop and Video Games Collide

Def Jam: Icon

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Instead of feeling like a jacked-up wrestling game, “Icon” takes something like “Street Fighter” and fuses it with something like “PaRappa the Rapper.” In other words, you beat people up in rhythm with the soundtrack. An interesting idea to be sure, but the execution was muddled and confusing. And yet, it’s not the franchise’s nadir.

 

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