Streets of Rage

"Exact conversion from Genesis......"

I bought this game together with my mega CD when I first bought this system. I quite enjoy it and still play the game whenever I get bored with some new games which I completed. AS you can see, this is sort of a key to unlock my boredom whenever I get bored with my new game systems as an alternative solution(classical gaming). I still play and enjoy this game despite this game being outdated for a long time. Now I shall talk about the game.

Story plot:
Well the story evolves like this. This city was supposed to be a happy, peaceful, quiet city until a notorious organization took over the city and the once happy city suddenly over night change to a nightmare zone. The whole city is infested with these organization villains after the city has been taken over. Chaos and destruction was everywhere and many area of the city looks abandon. So three rookies cops and with some friends from the police force decided to form a group to take down this organization once and for all. Axel Stone, Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter decided to fight through the once peaceful city with enemies along the way to finally reach and face the boss of this notorious organization to finally to put the end of this nightmare and regain the happy and peaceful city once again.

Game play:

Like it's genesis counterpart, nothing has change to the game in terms of game play.You get to grab weapons and lots of interesting goodies along the way. The characters Axel stone, Blaze Fielding and Adam Hunter moves are almost the same except for some normal attack moves. When you use a special attack, a police car arrives and a police man shoots out a bazooka and hit the entire area which is kind of stupid to me though. There are some interesting enemies as well as some bosses like the Signals which looks like wearing the turtle shell, the two females bosses and the fat guys and the knife throwing guys. There are quite a few interesting attack like flame throwing attacks from enemies and knife throwing attacks to view. The characters have wide variety of moves and the thugs have different fighting styles and can use weapons. The enemy I like most is the clown who not only juggles weapons and also throws at you!!:)

Controls:

The game's controls are easy to navigate, as well as the charaters' moves are easy to do, just take a while before you are the master of controls of the game so play along and can used to it. HEhehe.

Difficulty:

The game's quite tough in terms of enemies and bosses. The enemies are quite aggressive although the damage is not much but wait till you can surrounded by thugs then you will find it challenging.The bosses in the other hand, is also tough. Why? Their attacks are damaging, some of them can kill you instantly like Mr.X weapon attack. But you will find it fun and challenging as a gamer though.

video and audio

Like the gensis version, they are the same and there's no change in this area of aspect.

Video:
Looks fine to me, although it can still improve and have some unclear images or otherwise looks fine to me and stills needs to fix up on some graphics to make the background and people more realistic.

Audio:
As far as I am concern, I kind of like the BGMs of this game but the sound effects of weapons and pain needs to fix up upon though. Otherwise it looks fine to me. I kind of like the stage 2 BGM though.

Replay Value:

Like the genesis version, there's no change, I think they should have secret characters to unlock or other options to unlock to improve this game.

They need to really make this game with more replay value to this great game though. Lack of replay value can really discourage gamers from buying this game but renting this game is then a different story.

Thanos rulzs best bets:
Buy it if you are a fan of this game or a beat 'em up game fan. This is one of the few great game this system got to offer so might as well try this game out by buying or renting this game.

Game recap scores:

Replay value: 4/10
Entertainment: 8/10
Gameplay: 8/10
Video and audio: 8/10

The critics section

The pros:

* Great game
* Nice story line
* Cool special attacks
* Nice attack moves
* Nice Audio
* Great entertainment

The cons:

* Quite a tough game
* No replay value
* Video not that great
* Quite a short game
* sound effects not great

Reviewer's Score: 6/10, Originally Posted: 07/23/02, Updated 07/23/02