Streets of Rage

Streets of Rage is a cracking sice-scrolling beat-em-up that sees you taking on an American crime empire, fighting with hoodlums through the city streets. You can choose to play as one of three cops, Axel, a good all-rounder who moves at a medium speed and is of medium strength, black character Adam, who is very slow but packs a real punch, or Blaze, an acrobatic female who is lacking in the strenght department but makes up for this by being light and swift. All characters are well animated with their own unique sets of moves, although I always found it rather frustrating playing as Adam as me moves so damn slowly! Your enemies come in the form of punks, ...  Read the complete review

I have just recently bought the Sega Mega Drive Ultimate Collection thingy on Xbox 360 (it was known as something else in the states) and started playing the games that made my early years (well most of them, some like Road Rash and James Pond are abcent from the disk, but most of the games I loved as a little kid are in the collection). Of course I was a huge Streets of Rage fan as a child, which Mega Drive/Genesis player wasn't? I'd always regretted the fact I'd never played SoR3 though, it was the one Mega Drive game I always wish I'd played (much like Silicon Valley on the N64), and here was a disk promising me the chance to make up for the years I missed ...  Read the complete review

Streets of Rage was one of my favourite games growing up, this game was played on the Segamega Drive consoles, in 1991, amost 20 years later, its still one of the best games I have played, I am not sure if this is because it was fun to play, or because it just reminds me of being a child. The storyline of this game is that you were working for the police, trying to hunt down a bad guy who was causing trouble on the streets, and buying his way to the top of the town so no one could stop him, but firstly to get to him, you needed to get through his men, levels full of them, there is a boss at the end of every level just to make it harder to play as well, the ...  Read the complete review

Console: Mega Drive Genre: Fighting Released: 1991 Now this is a great game for its time and was one of my favourite games for the mega drive. This was the first of three in the series of games and was massive hit for the console. I used to play solely as axel as he had the kickboxing kicks which could knockout any opponent. The aim of this game was to stop the evil leader from ruling the streets. You are able to play as many characters in the game (Adam, Axel, and blaze) which all of them are ex cops. There are two different endings which is divided into good and bad. The bad ending is actually harder to get as you need to get ...  Read the complete review

The definitive beat-em-up, Streets of Rage is best enjoyed on the Sega Mega Drive. The player gets to choose from three players -- Adam - The bruiser, Axel - the all-rounder and Blaze - the agile gymnast. All are police vigilantes set out to investigate and ultimately destroy the evil crime syndicate masterminded by the aptly named and cliche villain - Mr. X. Every time I play this game on the two-player co-operative mode, there is always a huge argument over who gets to be Axel! The gameplay is simplistic, and in keeping with standard beat-em-up theme - Hordes of enemies coming at you from both sides of the screen, - but there are, at the same ...  Read the complete review