In both, I saw wieldable swordfish, ferocious environmental hazards, old school encounters taking place in the bizarre HR Giger room of Streets of Rage 2’s amusement park level, boss fights against bizarre combinations of established bosses, evil clones of player characters, and much more. There’s also a weekly challenge, which is a set sequence of rooms and encounters the devs create themselves. As you might expect, it randomizes the stages and overall setups as the difficulty ramps up. Inside the mode itself - which is canonically a simulation created by Streets of Rage 3 playable cyborg Dr. What we get is a tactical and tense game mode that really challenges the player to use every single morsel of a character’s arsenal to dive as deep as possible. (remember Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games also work on this joint) tore a page right out of Fanbyte 2020 Game of the Year Hades - introducing distinct stages and post-level powerups to the mix. While that formula is roughly intact, Dotemu et al. “Survival Mode” calls to mind a fairly simple formula of endless waves of enemies with item and weapon scarcity ramping up as the difficulty does. If those additions aren’t blowing your socks off by name alone, let me stop you there: the new Streets of Rage 4 survival mode, on its own, might be my game of 2021 so far. X Nightmare DLC, the best beat-em-up of the past decade gets even better with new weapons, balance tweaks, playable characters, a proper training mode, and a survival mode. It’s not rare for me to be wrong, granted, but I certainly didn’t expect Streets of Rage 4 to be in my top 10 games of the year. I thought surely, all these years later and without much of the team that made the original trilogy so slick, so cool, and so catchy, developer/publisher Dotemu and company wouldn’t be able to recapture the magic. So for now, Streets of Rage 4 will release for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch this Spring at a cost of £22.49/$24.99 USD.Streets of Rage 4 arrived in 2020 to test the limits of my games industry prognostication instincts. To get a taste of all the nostalgic sentiment you can expect, you can check out the new gameplay trailer below.Įarlier in the week, a release date leaked for Streets of Rage 4, which the publisher has claimed is incorrect. However, that is not all, because you’ll be able to switch between the music of Streets of Rage 4, as well as the soundtrack of the original trilogy on the fly. I thought with five characters already announced would be it and I would be happy with that, however, publisher DotEmu have announced that a further 12 more characters will be unlockable through the game and each of those characters are all from the previous three games in the series, taking the total to 17 playable characters.Īmong the 12 unlockable characters are Eddie “ Skate” Hunter, Max “ Thunder” Hatchet and Dr. Streets of Rage 4 mixes awesome hand-drawn visuals with gameplay of the iconic series (which still holds up today) and “ expanded combat abilities”.įamiliar faces from the series return with the likes of Adam Hunter, Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding, who join the new faces of Cherry Hunter and Floyd Iraia. Streets of Rage 4, the revitalised series from developers Lizardcube, who are responsible for Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap remake has already made this retro Sega Mega Drive classic an exciting prospect.
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