Streets of Rage 4

Been playing this on game pass on xbox and loving it. Such a great feel to it - gloriously retro but also well modernised. The music is quality too! Might get it on PC to own it as its on sale on Steam I think at the moment
 
yeah was fully expecting Shiva as the last DLC character. Not sure about the female cop character, would have preferred a returning character like Skate or even Zan tbh. I wonder what will happen if your playing as either Max or cop lady when you get to the part in the game when you would fight against them...?
 
Well I wanted a new game to play and got this + the DLC for £16.50 from Steam.

Got up to stage 5 using Axel and quite enjoying it so far.

any tips\tricks\things to keep an eye out for during the levels?
 
I am still gash at this game. Progressed a few stages further but always a D ranking. I seem to be having quite significant frame dips as well.
 
Finally completed the game, took quite a few attempts at the last boss. And I managed to get my first B and C grades, still averaging Ds though :D.

I might need to get some DLC, really enjoying this.
 
Beat this a month or two back with my son in co-op.
It was OK, simple beat 'em up but a bit too short really, main campaign all done in a few hours over a weekend (I know there are other modes, but don't really have the energy for that). Nice bit of Nostalgia for the old megadrive games but the actual game itself honestly if it wasn't for the SoR tie in I think I'd consider pretty meh.

IIRC I also couldn't get it to run above 60fps.
 
HangTime said:
Beat this a month or two back with my son in co-op.
It was OK, simple beat 'em up but a bit too short really, main campaign all done in a few hours over a weekend (I know there are other modes, but don't really have the energy for that). Nice bit of Nostalgia for the old megadrive games but the actual game itself honestly if it wasn't for the SoR tie in I think I'd consider pretty meh.

IIRC I also couldn't get it to run above 60fps.
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Seems like your missing the point of these types of games. They aren't supposed to be 10 hour plus single player campaigns. They are short so you can have multiple play throughs, perfect combos and beat high scores etc.

TMNT Shredders Revenge is out on the 16th, can't wait :)
 
I guess high scores and optimising playthroughs is something I view as a bit of anachronism - it made sense 30 years ago because games were inherently more primitive, you could set benchmarks and work to beat it etc because they didn't really have to scope to create big immersive environments etc. But even then, when I played the original SoR games it wasn't really about the high scores for me, more like just playing through with the different chars, and the inherent difficulty of not being able to save the game so you had to beat it without exiting the game.

I can see the appeal for some people but in the modern age where we have thousands of games at our fingertips, for me personally it doesn't feel like a great use of my time to be replaying it, as a kid when you spent £45-50 (I think SoR3 was about that, let's say £80 in today's money) you needed to get your money's worth and play it to death, not so much now for a game picked up on Game Pass.

Forgot to mention, the soundtrack is decent, and a few nice nods in the direction of levels from SoR2 without being a complete rip off.
 
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