
These will generally be the same sprite with the same attack pattern but sport a new color scheme, deal more damage with their attacks, or have a higher resistance to your attacks. As the game progresses, players come into contact with new, more difficult varieties of the same apparent enemy. There’s a wide variety of enemies to face along the way with different attack patterns, weapons, and they all have different levels of resistance before their sprites fall down dead and flicker off the screen.

New character Cherry Hunter strikes up a pose. You’ll pick up a range of health, weapon, and special attack items as you punch, kick, and throw your way through the game’s twelve story levels, fighting a boss at the end of each one. Streets of Rage 4 is an old-school arcade-style side-scrolling beat-em-up that can be played in single-player mode, two-player co-operative mode online, or up to four players locally. The predictability isn’t a huge problem in a game of this retro beat-em-up style though for most players, the story will probably be very much secondary to gameplay. Fans of the original series, of 16-bit era games, and gamers who enjoy an over-the-top, comic book style narrative will find an enjoyable but predictable story on offer here. It creates a fun, fitting, and fast-paced style reminiscent of the early 1990s. The story is told with on-screen text and graphic novel-style cutscenes between levels. In addition, you’ll run into some old friends along the way. You’ll have to face off against a diverse cast of enemies, old and new, as the story progresses. You battle across Wood Oak City in pursuit of the mysterious Y Syndicate, a criminal empire that plans to brainwash the city’s citizens using mind-controlling music. Progressive electro-rock guitarist Cherry Hunter and mechanically-armed stone mason Floyd Iraia join ex-cops Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding, the two veterans of the game. You play as a team of four vigilante heroes in Streets of Rage 4, including two series’ veterans and two newcomers.

Regarded as classics of the 16-bit era, can Streets of Rage 4 replicate the magic twenty-six years later-and resurrect not only the long-dormant franchise, but an entire video game genre? Story These side-scrolling beat-’em-ups followed a team of ex-vigilante cops on their mission to take down a shadowy crime syndicate and save their city. Between 19, Sega released the first three Streets of Rage games.
