![]() ![]() All the old team are here, present and correct a carefully choreographed mix of enemy types conspiring to take you down. There are leather-clad electric whip ladies to deal with, high-kicking Thai fighters, fire-breathing fat boys, robots, cops, gun-toting gangsters and everything else in-between. R and Y Signal enemies – still wearing their signature skull emblazoned parkas – attempt to slide into you from a distance while Donovan types arrive onscreen wielding metal pipes and bats and are uniformly excellent at punching you out of the sky should you attempt to attack them from the air. Short and stocky biker-helmeted goons headbutt-charge in your direction as denim-clad thugs wielding knives hang back at the edges of fights waiting for just the right moment to move in quickly for a stab. ![]() ![]() Captured on Nintendo Switch (Docked)Īll of the classic Streets of Rage thug-types have returned here too and with their signature moves intact familiar foes who haven't switched up their tactics in the quarter of a century since they last hit the scene. Oh, and in case you were wondering, we've compared the Switch version directly with the PlayStation 4 edition, and the game runs identically on both machines (and runs in at the same, silky-smooth 60fps in docked or portable modes) – port specialist Seaven Studio has done a superb job here. The neon signs of arcades and tattoo parlours – newly liberated from their pixelated pasts – now flicker, buzz and reflect off pools of water, steam drifts up and out of sewers surrounded by overfull trash bags and grimy graffiti – Wood Oak doing its very best seedy '80s NYC impression – as groups of enemies you'll instantly remember from the original games rush in from all sides of the screen, making a beeline for your ever-ready fists and feet.įrom this opening on the gritty streets of the city, through toxic neon sewers, the top of a speeding train, a great glass elevator shooting to the top of an enemy's lair, grungy biker bars, wrestling rings and gaudy modern art galleries, this is a game that looks fantastic from beginning to end, with each and every location, enemy and playable character dripping in hand-crafted detail. It's up to returning heroes Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter – alongside newcomers Cherry Hunter and Floyd Iraia – to take to the mean streets in search of answers while dishing out a relentless beating to everyone who stands in their way.Īs soon as you jump into the action here you can tell you're in safe hands Lizardcube's intricate and wonderfully detailed hand-drawn visuals bringing the familiar environs of the game's opening chapter to sumptuous life. Picking up ten years after the events of the third game which saw Mr X and his crime syndicate defeated, a new threat has emerged in Wood Oak in the form of X's children, the Y Twins, and their shadowy criminal empire. Captured on Nintendo Switch (Handheld/Undocked) Streets of Rage 4 is a beautifully-crafted return to a beloved franchise a direct continuation, celebration and revitalisation of the classic side-scrolling beat-em-up series that manages to stay entirely true to its roots while refreshing and improving almost every aspect of its gameplay, resulting in the very best Streets of Rage to date. It may be twenty-six years since Streets of Rage 3 released back in the spring of 1994, but jumping into this brand new chapter in the series, a joint venture between Lizardcube – makers of the excellent Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap – Dotemu and Guard Crush Games, it genuinely feels as though very little time has passed since we were last kicking and punching our way through the thug-infested streets of Wood Oak City.
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