


The stylish and swift Blaze provides a mixture of Axel and Cherry’s play-styles, offering sufficient speed without sacrificing power. The young and vibrant Cherry is exceptionally quick and agile, especially in the air, allowing you to easily dodge enemy attacks with the ability to run. Axel, the middle-aged, blonde, ex-cop is slow-moving but strong, capable of grappling enemies and juggling them for long combos. Each of the aforementioned vigilantes share certain traits, but each character is mostly unique in terms of play-style. When you first start Streets of Rage 4, there are four playable characters available to choose from. Unlike its flashy new visual style, the storytelling is all but standard fare for the beat ’em up genre, with only a few notable story moments to speak of. While the experience is dotted with some fun fan-service moments, don’t go into Streets of Rage 4 expecting a modern story overhaul. There’s no voice-acting in dialogue scenes, there are only a handful of animated cutscenes, and the plot that exists is altogether by-the-books. The gameplay is the primary focus of Streets of Rage 4, but that doesn’t exactly let it off the hook. You can play either solo or with up to four players locally (only two players can team up in online matches), taking on the linear, arcade-like set of levels for some cathartic face-punching action.

The 12-stage long Story mode takes players across environments both familiar and new, tasking them with smashing through baddies using a surprisingly nuanced fighting system as well as various weapons and offensive items. As things get particularly bad around town, two classic Streets of Rage characters, Axel and Blaze, team up with two newcomers, Cherry and Floyd, to rid the streets of the Y Twins and their criminal cohorts. X running the show, Streets of Rage 4 features his two twin children as antagonists, simply known as the “Y Twins”. Taking place a decade after the events of the last game, Streets of Rage 4 is a remarkably familiar plot, involving four vigilantes attempting to take down a bustling crime syndicate in their city. Streets of Rage 4 is very similar in that regard, for better or worse.
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You, being full of rage, are going to beat up said guys. The Streets of Rage franchise has never been super complex in terms of narrative. Does Streets of Rage 4 provide players with an enjoyable experience that’s reminiscent of the originals, or is this just an attempt to cash-in on the nostalgia of 90s gamers? Back on the Streets Arriving nearly 26 years after the release of the last game, Streets of Rage 4 is an unexpected follow-up that attempts to revitalize the franchise while simultaneously paying homage to the classic retro trilogy. Although the original three Streets of Rage games were developed by SEGA, this throwback sequel was crafted by developers Dotemu, Lizardcube, and Guard Crush Games, a handful of indie studios with a lot of passion for the genre. The late 90s were the golden age of beat ’em ups, but the genre has seen a resurgence in recent years. Streets of Rage 4 is a sequel to Streets of Rage 3, a beat ’em up game that originally released in 1994 on the Sega Genesis.
