The Streets are not safe! (Streets of Rage)

Member Name: lorrainek858

Product:	Streets of Rage
Date:	19/05/09 (23 review reads)
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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 bosses are interesting in this game, one spat fire, another had claws like wolferine on his knuckles etc.

This game was quit hard to play and complete, the bad guys that you are constently beating up get harder to kill as the game goes on and the bosses have more health as each level progreses. You have one special move, which is the police throwing flames through a rocket launcher per level which basically wipes out whatever has been hit, so this helps when you are finding the game too hard.

The 3 characters you can play with in the game are are ex policemen/women they are:
Adam: Has the best boxing moves, does the most damage to bad guys by punching
Axel: Mostly good at martial arts, the most popular character as he is in all the Streets of Rage games
Blaze: Has juedo moves, doesnt do as much damage as the others

The graphics and game concept are quite good in this game for to be made in 1991, there are loads of remakes and demos online, or you could buy it on ebay, or through emulators. I recommend giving it a go if your a fan of retro games though, it truely is a classic.

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