The TakeOver

It's a good match for the Streets of Rage series of games. There is everything here, a car chase, an airplane flight, a lot of weapons that can be taken away from opponents, and a great sound. It's definitely worth playing.

Of the games I've played outside of Streets of Rage 4, this is the best. Competent design that games like Mother Russia Bleeds lack, no "visual spaghetti" like Fight'N Rage. Excellent visual design, great score. Never feels like it's cheating you while still being challenging .Where it lacks compared to Streets of Rage 4 for me is enemy variety (less meaningful) and a lack of special moves for each character with specific inputs, which I would have liked. The depth comes from the free-flow combo system to mix it up, but I still would have preferred specific-input special moves. I actually bought this a while back and am just playing it now—definitely picking up the sequel.

To the devs team; pls opt this game into GFN. Thx.

Incredibly meh for a game touted as the next streets of rage. In terms of presentation it has a strong personality with its 90s prerendered sprites and pretty good ost, but the fighting feels shallow for a modern beat em up. the combo system is ok, not exactly awe inspiring, even though it tries to improve over sor3 it lacks the actual punch, the hits feel weightless and there's little variation. the difficulty level is somewhat mixed during the campaign, with some unexpected spikes inbetween a sea of punch-kick-rinse-repeat moments with no challenge whatsoever. the usual tropes get annoying kinda fast by the third time you have to jump over barrels or motorbikes and the only bonus stage i've tried didn't really feel good to play. overall, aside from sor4, i'd rather play mother russia bleeds, which at least has more to say than this. it's not terrible and I'm happy other people enjoyed it, but it's terribly so and so and not worth much time nor money for me. thumbs up since there's no middle ground vote. not terrible, there's some fun to be had here, but I wouldn't shower it with praise given the obvious flaws.

Very cool Streets of Rage style game.

This is an interesting retro Beat'Em Up, for sure. On the one hand, the controls take a bit of getting used to because they don't follow the usual mapping of most games in the Beat'Em Up genre and the art style is kind of inconsistent because the cut-scenes are in done in a comic-book style that doesn't match the actual graphics of the game, and they're also done in a kind of amateurish style that brings to mind indie web-comics instead of professional comics and, though it wasn't a huge deal to me and it's probably a budgetary issue, I think the game would've benefited from cut-scenes that matched the look of the game and/or the cover art. But on the other hand, the game does some interesting things you don't usually see in this kind of game, like giving the characters a firearm with limited ammo on top of the usual martial arts and special moves and including some levels where you shoot a machine gun from a car or you pilot a jet or even one where you have unlimited ammo and you can shoot the enemies instead of beating them up like in every other level. It also subverts the usual plot of this kind of game where you go save one of the characters' girlfriend/sister from some gan…