On top of that, versions of characters from previous games can be played as well, meaning SOR1 Axel can fight alongside SOR3 Blaze, and these past versions still have their own full set of moves. X himself, Elle, the whip-weilding singer from Streets of Rage 2, and brand new ninja lady Rudra. Several original characters are unlockable as well, including Mr. Roo, Shiva & Ash return as unlockable characters, this time featuring fully fleshed out movesets that make them much more viable to play. Even Adam, who hasn’t been seen since the original game, makes a return appearance with a brand new set of kickboxing based moves. The roster features every character who’s made a playable appearance in previous games. There’s also new SOR3- style cutscenes between stages, which mostly consists of the main characters interrogating the people they just beat up to figure out where to go next. The third game isn’t entirely recreated, but most of its areas and setpieces make a reappearance.
The first two games are fully represented. At some point they must have relented, however, as several patches were since released that fixed bugs and further refined the game’s content.Īs the name implies, Streets of Rage Remake is less of a new game than it is a blend of the original three games.
After eighl years of development, a small group known as Bombergames finally released their tribute to the series, a testament to their hard work and their love of the franchise…just to have Sega send a cease and desist order to kill it only a few days later. Eventually, a few dedicated fans got together and made their own sequel. Playing the game I have courteously taken some screen shots playing as one of the new added playable characters, which now happens to be my favourite - Shiva.There were several attempts to create a 3D Streets of Rage (including one by Ancient, who worked on Streets of Rage 2), but Sega of Japan couldn’t understand the appeal of the series, as it was mostly popular with overseas gamers. 34 unlockable features, including editors, artworks, cheats etc. MISC CONTENT - High degree of customization through options for the combat system and other variables Many of the ones in v4 have been replaced with new ones. 66 REMIXES - Remixes from most of the saga soundtrack. Selected enemies from the SMS / GG versions All of the SOR3 / BKIII enemies with their full movesets, including both censored/uncensored versions except for Break All of the SOR2 enemies with their full move sets All of the special moves from SOR3 available for all of the characters versions 112 STAGES - All of the stages have been slightly remastered, with bigger resolution, new effects and new layers. So I recently came across Streets of Rage Remake v5, and it is the single most amazing stand-alone game I have ever played that is based on the engine of Streets of Rage 1,2 and 3. The console from my childhood was a Sega Megadrive and naturally those games are top priority, and also easy to hack, make modifications or even make your own stand-alone game.
Most of you might know and most might not, that I am a very retro gamer, I love picking up games from my childhood and spending hours at a time playing them, they have always been the greatest of games and I certainly prefer them to the games nowadays.Īnyway, recently I had the urge to play Streets of Rage, as it is very high in my list of nostalgic and favourite games of all time, when I feel the need to revisit an old game, I tend to go hunting for different versions of said game and various hacks to see what great ideas people have came up with using the base engines of these games.