![]() These are incentives to prolong the game’s longevity and it should take a while to unlock everything. Reaching certain milestones will unlock retro costumes and extras for the game, and there’s also an online leaderboard for you to see how your efforts rank. Completing levels with better grades and with different characters will earn you more points. If you’re sick of embarrassing your best friend, whilst he cries next to you, then there’s always Online Mode for you to pick a fight worldwide.Īcross your multiple playthroughs of the game you’ll earn lots of points that will contribute to your lifetime score. Finally, there’s a PVP, Battle Mode that will see gamers use the in-game characters to fight against each other. Again, your life is precious here and the bosses do take some considerable work to put down. ![]() Only the true sadists or hunters of trophies and achievements will revel in the devilish brutality or maybe I’m still a bit too wrinkle-free to appreciate the arcade era.Īdditionally, there’s a Boss Rush Mode that is quite literally a conveyor belt of the game’s bosses, being churned out one after another. Story Mode aside, there’s Arcade Mode, which is nostalgia-driven, and it will certainly test your patience and concentration. There is a chapter select so that you can go back and try to better your performances, although if you want to do a level on a higher difficulty you’ll have to have already finished it on that difficulty first. So there is some leeway if you just want to finish the game and you’re not bothered about score. These options mean you can replay the chapter as normal, replay it with an extra life (at the cost of your score), replay it with two extra lives and so on. If you do inevitably die, then there are new “game over” options. In particular, a level set in a prison that I enjoyed quite a lot! But it’s still a solid, fun set of levels nonetheless.įor a frame of reference, I completed the game on Hard difficulty on my first time around – there are 5 difficulties in total – and it was sufficiently difficult. I would’ve liked another two or three extra stages if I’m being totally honest, as I just feel there was so much creativity here that a bit more gameplay wouldn’t have gone amiss. Naturally the length of your road will vary depending on what difficulty level you play on and how often you die. Furthermore, the game can be played with up to 4-players locally. Each chapter can be completed in roughly 5-15 minutes and could give you a grand playtime of about 2-4 hours. The Story Mode consists of 12 chapters that slowly escalate in terms of difficulty. Now we get into the nitty, gritty, meat of the meal!įirstly, the game offers a lot of content – although it may not appear that way initially. Gameplay – Puts Up A Great Fightīlaze fighting Plenty Of Meat On The Bone The story is a cut-and-dried affair about good vs evil and there’s not enough of one to really critique. They don’t overstay their welcome as the developers understand what their game is about. The narrative is illustrated through comic book-style storyboards that appear during chapters. The Y family are trying to take over the city using mind-controlling music, which is influencing the weak minds of the city’s most recognized evil-doers.This sets about the return of previous characters, and bosses, as their brainwashed heads believe they must stop our retired cops from intervening with the Y family’s plans. They all have slight differences in their stats ranging from strength to speed – so choose wisely. They are joined by newcomers Cherry Hunter (Adam’s daughter) and Lloyd Iraia. The series’ hero, Axel Stone, is reunited with Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter. Set years after the events of Streets of Rage 3, a grizzled Axel, and his team, are now tasked with stopping Mr and Mrs Y. The previous three entries have centered around the prevention of evil villain Mr.X (no relation to Resident Evil’s Mr.X) and his nefarious schemes. This section is certainly going to be bit more brief than the others as Streets of Rage isn’t particularly defined by its abilities to tell tales.
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