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Underground fuels itself with a deluge of animation, extending combat and forcing strategy. The Scott Pilgrim beat-em-up took great inspiration from River City Ransom with RPG-like experience and unlockable movesets, and those features are back here.
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The heart of the series remains: It’s still about pummeling rivals, taking their cash, and upgrading your character. River City Ransom UndergroundĪ reboot of an iconic NES game (and extension of the winding Kunio series that started it), River City Ransom Underground uses an open world where Japanese gangs run the streets. Fights happen in dreary alleys and prisons, but break out later inside a sex club where people “engage” each other in bondage gear, while others just watch. It all fits a cynical setting, set during a time of high post-Soviet Russia drug use. Punches hit like rapid fire tanks, mauling enemies as they slowly lose teeth and clothes the longer they hold on, like the after-effect of too many street drugs. Weapons include syringes and knives and hits connect with plenty of blood. Mother Russia BleedsĮmbracing the adult part of the M rating, Mother Russia Bleeds revels in exploitation-level violence. The weight of the combat-and even better the speed-push Fight’N Rage to the top of Steam’s beat-em-up roster. While the movesets don’t aim for depth, impact feels sold from every hit. That set-up is done with a gorgeous, glossy glaze that emphasizes shadows and highlights. The foes? Rats, pigs, wolves, and others, reminscent of some of the enemies in the arcade Battletoads or TMNT brawlers.
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It’s full of sleaze, and done in the form of an animal world. The best at capturing the true spirit of the arcade era, this beat-em-up is a furious and sprite-based game that just came out in 2017. They all set off to clear London of gang activity-even if not a single one of these people make a convincing street thug. Plus, there’s a bevy of characters to unlock and choose from, including YouTubers like Nostalgia Critic. Combos lift enemies up, up, up into the air and the range of attacks (oddball as they often look) keeps repetition at bay. It’s nonsense.Ĭomedy aside, there’s a competent game underneath. Characters acknowledge the screen, perform nunchuck skits, and slowly roll over and die. With technological progress, the dev team uses expanded animation possibilities, goofing around with the sprites. In an alternate timeline where Mortal Kombat’s digitized sprites never went out of style, Streets of Fury EX is the standard. Streets of Fury EXīefore taking the Streets of Rage 4 gig, developer Guard Crush Games worked on this kooky and irreverent brawler.
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The third game-a Japanese exclusive for decades-is worth a look, refining the mechanics, plus adding new characters and tighter action. The first two games follow similar paths, hacking away at the minions of Death Adder. The mystical, swords & sorcery aesthetic presents a morbid clash of weapons.
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In terms of the Genesis, these three represent the best of the genre on that hardware, and then by default, some of the best on PC too.ĭon’t rule out Golden Axe either. Each entry in the Streets of Rage series is worth owning (they can be purchased separately as well), beginning with the dour original, into the brightly saturated sequel, and the oddball third game. It’s a small cheat to open this list, but among the 59 games included in this compilation sit both the Streets of Rage and Golden Axe trilogies. The best of them manage to channel the pure bliss of the arcade days, or add something novel to a genre famous for its 90s simplicity. With Streets of Rage 4 coming, we decided to dig into the surprisingly vibrant selection of indie beat-em-ups on PC that have kept the genre’s stylistic violence going. There are still gang-laden streets that need to be cleared by the fists of heroes. After the rush in arcades, with classics pouring in from Konami and Capcom, they slowed to a trickle as interest in walking right and punching faded. Beat-em-ups didn't die with the arcade, but they did enter a recession after the heyday of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Final Fight.
