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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45725

Electronic Arts sent out

a press release announcing that DEF JAM: ICON, an upcoming fighting game for the PS3 and Xbox 360. DEF JAM: ICON is scheduled to ship in March 2007.

uot;Music is the cornerstone of hip-hop culture so we wanted to incorporate music and rhythm into the actual gameplay mechanics,

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yhancik · Posted: Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:00 pm Post subject:

is it me or the objects in the environment seems to break in a VERRRRY weird way ?

look carefully at the screenshots

djRom · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:45 am Post subject:

I agree. Pics 1 and 3...The cars whats up with that?

The Outlaw · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 2:34 am Post subject:

yup, the car looked as if someone had used Cut and Paste feature to piece together the car.

yhancik · Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:56 am Post subject:

maybe that revolutionary fighting game is modernist in its spirit, thus using and displaying the specificities of its medium Wink

it's a videogame, a world of polygonal 3D
so instead of falling into the classical mimesis where stuff would try to act like real things, they act like 3D polygonal stuff
and that's why you can break them in such an unrealistic way

anyway realism is so 18th century, really

(or maybe they just messed up with their environments)

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

I guessed that it is some sort of "Powerslice" move where a bolt of blue lightning comes from their fists and shit gets chopped up.

No one is stupid enough to make things just break like that, even older games are capable of being more realistic. I think there is something more to it Smile