Classic Game Series: Streets Of Rage - Your thoughts

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I know why i was not keen on the third game the whole tone of the game changed It just felt wrong to me almost like it had gone more futuristic

Also i was not to keen on the music

Brings back memories of all three great games. I always preferred number one, (music, gameplay etc). Better than Final Fight on the SNES for sure, due to the fact it could cope with more than three enemys on the screen at one time, and had a two player option. Genius.

In streets of rage 2 the sound effects when blow connect were just great

Also the baseball stadium tune is great (think it is a bit similar to the shamen tune move any mountain)


I preffered it to the final fight series anyway

Can't comment on SOR3 as I never got the chance to sample the delights it offered, but number 2 was one of my most played and loved mega drive games. Man, the tunes !!!!

As good as SoR was, and it's clear that many people prefer it, it did always bother me that it was such an obvious copy of Final Fight. Final Fight did the groundwork and SoR just built on that a little without making any attempts to hide its origins.

Of course the series deserves credit for being a success in its own right.

Well Final Fight was hardly original - Taito did Renegade years before FF, who can forget Double Dragon either? OK Streets of Rage basically copied Cody in their character Axel - but the game was vastly different. For me the fact there was more than the 4 moves that FF had put SOR way ahead in the gameplay stakes.

Nothing can beat a Blaze and Axel tag-team attack on the enemies either. Hagger and Guy didn't have such grade did they?

The concept and mechanics of FF were hardly original, I'll give you that. But many enemies in SoR were pretty much direct copies from FF and, as you say, they have Cody in there. Many games build on the groundwork of other games - there is nothing wrong with that. I just always felt that SoR was uncomfortably blatent in that regard.

And I'm not in any way arguing that FF is the better game. That's not really my point.

Big fan of these classic side scrollling beat em ups. Sadly, I only experienced the first SoR so hopefully it and the other two show up on the new sega compilation out at the end of the year.

Perhaps the biggest thing I remember from SoR1 was that stupidly overpowered special ability where some guy would show up in a car and rain missiles down on your enemies - I'm not 100% certain but didn't this work inside buildings as well as outside? Crazy.

Originally Posted by Daragon

Perhaps the biggest thing I remember from SoR1 was that stupidly overpowered special ability where some guy would show up in a car and rain missiles down on your enemies - I'm not 100% certain but didn't this work inside buildings as well as outside? Crazy.

yeah the special power was crap in SOR1, and it broke up the gameplay too - SOR2 replaced this with a FF style energy sapping special move! LOL!! - much better thou