SEGA’s basic Streets of Rage trilogy of beat-em-ups is getting a fourth game after 23 years, courtesy of the workforce behind the latest remake of Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap.
Streets of Rage 4, which is the official title, was introduced through a reveal trailer by writer DotEmu. The game is being developed by Lizardcube, who had been those behind the well-received Wonder Boy remake, and Guard Crush Games – makers of the very familiar-sounding side-scrolling beat-em-up Streets of Fury.
Streets of Rage’s unique writer SEGA don’t appear to be concerned. Funnily sufficient they had been additionally the unique writer of Wonder Boy, and but aren’t talked about in any respect on the game’s Steam page.
The trailer exhibits a mixture of animation and brief snippets of gameplay. The gameplay components present that Streets of Rage Four shall be 2D with comedian book-style characters and extremely detailed backgrounds. Several of the enemies from previous games are proven, together with the whip-wielding girl in crimson Nora. The game itself appears like it can play very similar to earlier games – an arcade-style side-scrolling beat-em-up.
At the second DotEmu is barely displaying two playable characters – the now-bearded Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding. Traditionally the Streets of Rage games have not less than one different character to select from, so they could get a reveal at a later date. Unless, in fact, the mysterious girl with an enormous snake on the finish of the trailer isn’t the game’s villain and is definitely a brand new participant character.
“Streets of Rage 4 builds upon the classic trilogy’s gameplay with new mechanics, a fresh story and a gauntlet of dangerous stages with a serious crime problem,” goes the game’s description on DotEmu’s web page.
The Streets of Rage games, often known as Bare Knuckle, all got here out on the SEGA MegaDrive/Genesis within the early ’90s and are very effectively regarded – particularly for their incredible soundtracks. Streets of Rage three was launched in 1994. There have been attempts to deliver the collection again, together with a model being internally developed by SEGA for the Dreamcast, however it bought scrapped after only a technical demo. Streets of Rage Four will consequently be the primary game within the collection in over twenty years.
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