Streets of Rage 4 Review | A Stunning Beat Em Up Rebirth

🐻 What's the better game out of Streets of Rage or Cobra Kai?

This is both a fascinating review, and a pleasure to listen to thanks to this man's excellent accent.

Can't wait to play with Adam my cousin came over man it took me back

This review is simply fantastic. The dedicated segment to talk about the music is PERFECT, thank you for focusing on the tunes! The bridging of old and new by Koshiro and the great modern work from Deriviere is excellent and I'm so glad you dive into this, no other review I've seen has made the effort to sink into this. I too was a SoR fanatic back in the 90's as a Genesis kid and this review exactly what I needed. Cheers!

When I first saw the trailer I instantly loved it, I really dig the new artstyle. I think it fits Sor perfectly. The characters look amazing. So graphics weren't a problem for me. While people were concerned about it, I was more concerned about the music back then. But I like it in general except for the fact that they should have kept a specific boss OST. I listened to one of them and they were so lame it was almost a blasphemy for the franchise. It didn't feel like a boss OST, you didn't feel hyped up like in Sor 1 and 2 where as soon as you hear the boss OST even before you see him/her you already hyped.

so... are we getting golden axe 4 now? lol

Great review, liked and subbed. Thanks

Retro game without pixelated graphics, thank God! Hint to all indie developers, pixelated graphic is a not a graphical style, it’s a technical limitation back then. Not only that, retro game graphic doesn’t really look pixelated back then on CRT display.

The Orange Cassidy refference :)

I JUST REALIZED THAT ADAMS GRAND UPPER IS LITERALLY THE TIGER DROP FROM YAKUZA 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

it's okay buddy don't feel bad about your scores, my scoreboard has more D's than bukkake

Dotemu gets it, id love for them and lizardcube to remake more 90's beat em ups

"Orange Cassidy cosplayers..."
I thought the same thing when I saw those guys, haha!

This is the most accurate review for the game so far 🖒
I 100% agree with your critique and thank you for focussing on the music more than most other reviewer's 😎

I like the Irish sounding accent

Might've gotten it if it had a different roster.

I'm so glad you explained why having the art style the way it is was a good choice. I don't hate pixel art but I love that art style and I'm glad they went with it.

i kinda dont want sor4 to do all that well, just well enough to warrant more of the same. i'd hate sega to see the success and decide to turn sor5 into a yakuza clone. dont get me wrong i love yakuza, 0 is one of my favorite games of this generation but if we are to get another sor id rather it was more of this.

I can’t wait to buy this. By the way, this was the review I was expecting from IGN, but found it here instead because you get it.

I love this Streets of Rage 4. There's something very special about it. It's so unique from the other Streets of Rage. Absolutely fantastic 👍🏿

As others have rightly pointed out thanks for giving the soundtrack a bit of time. Audio is so often overlooked in reviews. My favourite in this one is the DJ K-Washi track, proper dirty techno. Reminds me of Stage 7 in SOR2

Man its nice to hear another irish voice going on about great games :)

I’m playing arcade mode with my wife and it’s been an amazing experience. We reached the last stage yesterday. Almost there...

(Edit) Done! Finished some days ago!

SoR 4 Life

I’d happily pay an extra 5 bucks for some DLC

Great commentary!! I've been waiting for this game since it was announced. Hell what am I saying I've been waiting for 20 years lol!!

This was an excellent review.

Grat Review my friend I agreed with everything you said!

Glad we finally got the sixth Streets of Rage game.


After Fighting Force on the PS1, which was conceived as a SoR game until Sega realized it was cross platform, and Double Dragon Neon, which totally played more like SoR then DD.

I dont know, I think they'd better pay Capcom some royalties.

Hate the art style. Should have kept it true to the original.

Next game —
1.guilty gear xxx 3rd graphics engine

2.full 3D movement..characters only face 4 directions...

3.bigger levels ..that allow characters go a bit deeper into the background..Or maybe just full 3D with the 2d ish fixed camera angle..

4.more features in gameplay ..blocking/evading..more interacting with surroundings

5.big customization and an engine that custom creates enemy looks..l

6.deep ,fleshed out story

7.stop penalizing the big character by making him Incredibly slow .

Seen a bunch of SOR reviews and this one was not only the most entertaining but also the most enthusiastic regarding one of my favourite things about the series... the music.... New fan and subscriber 👏🏼💯❤️

Awesome review. One thing no one has mentioned; it looks like Estel is Axel’s illegitimate daughter. Has anyone else picked up on that?

I love SoR AND I love Final Fight. Give these guys Final Fight 4, Capcom. This is above and beyond expectations!

"wonton violence" ... Now that is good writing. Subscribes

Bought this today spent half an hour with it before work. brought back some memories. really good game so far.

The games control responds perfectly. Combos are fun and I really had a blast with Adam. I just hate the music, not so streets of rage-ish.

GRAND UPPAH!

They nailed the FEEL of the game. Who’s old enough to appreciate a sequel to this game can understand what they did and why. IGN’s review could not have missed the mark more than it did and yours hit it like a full chicken found in a garbage can.

Awesome Review. I love this game, can't get enough just like in the 90's! (Nice Orange Cassidy reference lol I thought the same thing when I saw them) 🤘🏼

Game is fantastic... Best beat em of of all time, this new version. Took me way back and I didn't really lose a step either lol.

I think they did justice to SOR4 and I absolutely love it. But I am an greedy Maffaka, hope they do more stuff with future updates.

Aww the good old days of my childhood hood playing streets of rage 2 some sounds are the same and some characters do same moves but look a lot different I love this game

Me and my girlfriend is loving this game we've been playing all day long and late night.

i bought the game today and try it, it is simply amazing

Great review guys and i love this reviewer too so funny and enthusiastic, love it fantastic :)

The art/music style is the best thing(s) about this title for sure... I hope they make SOR 5 asap

They should add romance option and stealth section.

Hopefully this creates a resurgence for the beat em up genre