Streets of Rage 4

Beat em up with amazing soundtrack and viewtifully drawn artsyle. There is online co-op and people should update their ratings.

The worthy return of the mythic franchise. Art and gameplay are top notch. and... NOW HAS ONLINE!

I was not a Genesis kid. One of my friends had a Genesis, but few games; another had a SNES, and his house was where my group of friends often wiled away the evenings. But I spent plenty of hours on beat-em-ups at arcades, mastering games like Kung Fu Master, Double Dragon, and that from which SoR clearly took its greatest influence, Final Fight. I've since gone back and played some of the original SoR games in collections. And, they're fine... but time has not been entirely kind. But I think SoR4 is brilliant. The controls feel solid, responsive, and fluid. It makes effective use of the four face buttons on a modern controller without bogging down with the superfluous over-complications some games run into, feeling obligated to use every piece of controller real estate. Anyone who likes action games at all could pick up a controller and play, and feel like they were effective, while still rewarding thoughtful, strategic, and practiced play with feelings of skill-building and achievement. If you're like me, you'll watch your end-of-level grade creep up with pleasure. I've now played through with four of the "base" characters (more are unlocked through repeated play, mostly "classic" versions of SoR characters), and all feel distinct. Some have a more effective air game, some are most devastating on throws, some just hit really hard. You most powerfully feel this in dealing with bosses, discovering how one you breezed through with Axel is a pain with Cherry, or vice-versa. There are occasional "cheap" moments- a bad guy flashes when you're locked in mid-combo on one of his colleagues, and moves in for an unavoidable combo or throw- but mostly, there are learnable strategies to deal with all of the mooks. Regrettably, I can't yet comment on multiplayer. I look forward to a couch-coop, which I suspect will be the best way to experience it. I get people's frustration about the absence of online play, but honestly- I've had a blast, even playing this single-player.

Game was already worth it before the DLC dropped. Now that it is out I had to review the DLC, and I am going to advise this game is worth it in all of it's glory. Go Grab it already. Great job Devs!!

Played this game in co-op with a friend. We started up the GOG Galaxy launcher and started the game. While in the game my friend sent me an invite which I accepted. Both me and my friend grew up with beat em ups as kids. Games like Final Fight, Streets of Rage, Turtles, Rushing Beat, Battletoads and more. So the new Streets of Rage 4 was a fresh game as game developers don't make that many beat em up games anymore. The graphics looks amazing and both soundtrack and sound effects are nice. I played the game using a controller and it worked just fine. Our playthrough went smooth with no issues. No crashes or anything. And we had a lot of fun playing through it. Solid game which i highly recommend to people who enjoy beat em up games! :)