Streets of Rage 4 Reviews

Great game drops to about $13 when on sale with mr x expansion. Definitely a must buy for a any collection! Hopefully an expansion or new game in the works! love it

Awesome beat 'em up with great mechanics and remote play. Own one copy, play with three other friends. Get it on sale, easily get your monies worth.

Streets of Rage 4 slaps, simple as. The presentation is simply outstanding; each level has its own music, all of which are great; the art direction is a simply perfect mixture of pixels and hand drawn graphics, with honestly some of the most charismatic character designs I've ever seen in a game. Seriously, just watching one of the characters move tells you so much about them, and each one is distinct. Meanwhile, the combat is basically perfect. It's not so fast paced that you lose track of what is happening, but it moves fast enough that it almost feels like a turn based fighter. It prioritizes timing animation properly, and it also does a fantastic job of making you feel like an uber powerful badass. All of the characters I've played feel incredible to use, powerful in their own ways. The levels are all excellent, too. It forms a surprisingly cohesive, if a bit ridiculous, story, a journey through the eponymous streets of rage that start at street level and eventually gets bigger and bigger. Due to the creativity of the levels and the challenges they present, it often feels like you're watching a top notch animated action movie. Some of the bosses can be tricky to learn, and I'll admit that a few of them really grated, but switching up your timing or approach on subsequent attempts often leads to success. Every enemy can be defeated, it's just a matter of learning how. To top it all of, this game sports a large roster of unlockable characters, both characters from the story, and retro versions of the protagonists. It gives the game a ton of replay value. Despite the fact that it takes maybe two hours to beat the story, the bang for your buck is tremendous, between the various difficulties and the large roster. I loved it.

Growing up I was part of the Sega Genesis faction in elementary school. The Super Nintendo kids had final fight and for them Streets of Rage would always be a rip off. I can tell you after beating both final fight and Streets of rage, SOR is the better series of games. With that said, the first time I saw SOR4 was in the glitch arcade in ft. Lauderale, florida. I was blown away at the upgraded gameplay, visuals and music. A couple years passed and I bought the game on Steam. It is great and difficulty at times. My only complain is that it is not cross platform compatible. PS5, xbox and steam seem to be completely separate online communities. My friend dwight purchased it twice, once on PS5 and once on steam, so he can play against me. I know these developers have shinobi and absolum (I think thats how its spelled) coming out and I hope its along the same lines. I would like to thank everyone who was involved in bringing this to life.

The input delay in this game is trash compared to the other 3 and the bomber games remake.... My characters attack way faster after inputting the command in the other four especially the unofficial bombers games remake..... This game is about lame juggle combos against the enemies on harder difficulties. And if one is unfamiliar to to do the lame juggle combos or feel they are lame than the enemies own the player instead on the harder modes especially with the trash input delay compared to the other 4 games.... Only thing this game has going for it is the updated graphics and slightly better music compared to the other 4. And in terms of music there is much better music elsewhere when one includes all music options.... The dlc new missions soundtrack is good which i have listened to on youtube but I never got that dlc. The game is also much much slower compared to the first streets of rage and the unofficial remake.... The enemies feel jus as fast but my character is clearly slower. I may play this game again in the future but only with mods that smooth out the gameplay if at all.... And speedhacks like I used in the unofficial remake to speed up that one.... Remember folks my speedhacks speed up the enemies too which make it way more fun on mania and other difficulty settings where the ai is careful in how they approach. Mania is actually easier more often then the more nuanced difficulty ai behavior settings on the unofficial game. I played the unofficial game very often before this game even came out. And even the first streets of rage has far better gameplay than this one unless one is to smooth out the gameplay with mods. I am very picky with input delay in games. In fact thats why I always use keyboard for beatemups cause it is noticeably faster than controllers on the computer.

Incredible fighting game style depth combined with a good ol' buddy system beat'em up. I wish there was more DLC or a SoR5 on the horizon. Only shame is capping at 2 players for online.

Streets of Rage 4 is a 2020 beat 'em up game developed by Dotemu, Lizardcube, and Guard Crush Games and published by Dotemu. The game is a continuation of Sega's Streets of Rage trilogy, originally released for the Sega Genesis during the 1990s. Streets of Rage 4'' was not only one of the greatest games of 2020, but it's perhaps the finest example in the genre to date. That's no small feat considering the franchise history and the genre pedigree. Now these indie studios have improved upon what was already a near-perfect product. Recommended this game.

5/5 Streets of Rage 4 is an amazing game. I haven’t played all belt-scrollers in existence, but I can make a calculated guess and say this is the best belt-scroller ever made. There are too many games in this genre anyway, and they all pretty much play exactly the same. I am sure there was an evolution in the genre, as regards mechanics, but after three decades there’s certainly not much room to further complexify the mechanics of such a simple genre. All that was left to do was to make the best game in the genre by adding kickass graphics and music to it, and cool enemies to fight against. And that’s exactly what SoR4 did. Now, in SoR3 you could sprint and in SoR4 you can’t. That’s pretty much the only thing missing from the game, mechanically speaking. But I wonder how much sprinting would change the pace of the game. I am not sure if the ability to sprint would ruin the game because a character like Shiva can dash forward and this makes him super fun to play with (he’s my main). I had so much fun with this game that I ended up getting its toughest achievements, like clearing the arcade mode on Hard difficulty (and I think I also did it on Hardest), reaching level 30 in survival mode, and getting an S-rank on all missions in Hard mode. These last two achievements were the toughest. This is because survival mode quickly becomes hectic, and the opponents get stronger with each level. By the time you get to level 30 it’s very tough to survive. As for the S-ranks, mission 4 was by far the toughest mission to clear with an S-rank because the required points to do so forced the player to make a perfect run on the mission, and to take practically no damage. This is because the points you get in a mission are proportional to the amount of hits you can chain on your opponents without getting hit yourself. The hit counter resets when you get hit, which means you lose all the points you could get otherwise. But yeah, this game is stylish. The characters, the environments, and the enemies are beautiful. Some enemies are more annoying than others, but it’s okay. The music is sometimes good, sometimes very good. Streets of Rage 4 is a fun little game that is quite possibly the pinnacle of the genre. I just don’t see any other belt-scroller as beautiful as this one.

2D brawler peak. play this game and wrap up the whole genre. you dont need another one unless you are a big fan of teenage mutant turtle or hardcore capcom arcade fans. We may find more stylish and adventurous attempt on the formula back in 90s. but in 2020s this game rules them all.

Desperately needs up to 4 player online co op. Such a great game otherwise.