The visuals are now high definition, similar to the aforementioned The Dragon’s Trap remake, and it looks marvelous. Partway through the game, Adam also shows up, making his first playable appearance since the original Streets of Rage. The two old heroes gear up to fight back, along with Cherry (Adam’s daughter, basically acting as a Skate replacement) and Floyd (a hulking guy with robotic limbs similar to Dr. Y) have taken up his evil mantle, and are not-so-secret behind the conspiracy. X is long gone, but his two children (Mr. Axel and Blaze have left the force again, but a new threat has descended upon Wood Oak City, in the form of hypnotic music. It was co-developed by Guard Crush Games, previously of the excellent indie beat-em-up Streets of Fury, with visuals from Lizardcube, who worked on the Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap remake from a few years prior.Ī significant amount of time has passed in the world of Streets of Rage (though not as much as in the real world).
This finally resulted in a proper Streets of Rage 4, released in 2020, over twenty years after the last game on the Genesis. However, in the late 2010s, Sega began working with outside studios to resurrect some of their legacy IPs. There were several attempts at a fourth Streets of Rage game – one that ended up becoming Eidos’ Fighting Force, one pitched by Ancient and Yuzo Koshiro, and some concept art by Swedish studio GRIN ( Bionic Commando Rearmed) – but none of these attempts came to fruition.
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