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For the rest of the list, head here. For #6, head here. #5: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Shredder's Revenge After numerous crappy and subpar license action games, it’s high time the original mutant animal ninja brothers -Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello- get back their honour with a beat-em-up title worthy of their legacy. A...
Platform(s): PC(version reviewed), Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One Genre: 2D beat-em-up RPG hybrid with Technos throwbacks aplenty 2019's River City Girls surprised everyone with its brand of humour, fun 2D beat-em-up action, lush pixel artwork, catchy music, and nods to the Kunio-kun and Double Dragon franchise. A couple more years later, we're...
Platform(s): PC (version played), PS5, Xbox Series Genre: Scifi horror game, except with more jumpscares, wallpaper tunnels, and a ton of melee fighting It's really hard to get away from the comparisons between The Callisto Protocol and Dead Space, seeing that the latter is from the same team (mostly) back in the Xbox 360 era of gaming. It's al...
Platform(s): PC (version played), Xbox One, Xbox Series Genre: Isometric 3D beat-em-up with grain filter & hardcore synth soundtrack If there's one noticeable flaw in Midnight Fight Express, the new 3D isometric beat-em-up action title from one Jacob Dzwinel, it's the story. It's essentially focused on an amnesiac named Babyface who is give...
Konami and developer Digital Eclipse have announced the release date of its Ninja Turtles classic games collection, not wanting to be left out of the collection jamboree that Capcom started. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection will be out for PC (Steam), Xbox Series, Xbox One, PS4, PS5, and Nintendo Switch this 30th August...
Platform(s): PC (version played), PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch Genre: 80s license cartoon beat-em-up with 6-player co-op and lovely fan service The late 80s and 90s Konami licensed beat-em-ups, particular the ones with the iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, rely on fast-paced offensive gameplay, simple controls, and relentles...
The pretty sweet-looking spin-off to the River City series of games will be out in English in a few months. Publisher Arc System Works and developer APlus Games will release River City Saga: Three Kingdoms for PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC on 21 July for US$29.99. River City Saga: Three Kingdoms will have our beat-em-up heroes Kunio and Riki f...
Platform(s): PC (Steam), Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PS4 Genre: 2D beat-em-up featuring isekai-like elements In Young Souls, a new entry in the 2D beat-em-up genre, you play a pair of rambunctious foul-mouthed twins who have to play the isekai protagonists role of delving in an underground fantasy goblin-filled world and save your previous town ...
Update: Sifu's latest post-game updates and content additions have made us re-evaluate the game after the review on February. We've changed the game's score to reflect that. Platform(s): PC, PS5, PS4 Genre: Third-person kung-fu action with a revenge plot & some "roguelike" When Sifu gets slick with its presentation, it sticks the landing...
Publisher Arc System Works and developer WayForward are delaying its upcoming port of Shin Nekketsu Kouha: Kunio-tachi no Banka -or River City Girls Zero- to next year. Originally scheduled for late 2021, both companies said they will release the game in early 2022 so that they have more time to "achieve the most accurate port and best experienc...
There's going to be another kaiju fisticuffs game that's coming out alongside Gigabash, though this one's a tad different genre-wise. Publisher WayForward and developer 13AM Games announced a new upcoming 2D beat-em-up title called Dawn of the Monsters. It's a co-op beat-em-up featuring mechas beating up kaijus and vice versa in a huge cityscape...
Need to sate that beat-em-up craving after Streets of Rage 4's awesome DLC? Why not give this upcoming game a look? Young Souls is an upcoming 2D beat-em-up RPG hybrid from 1p2p Studio and The Arcade Crew, featuring twin siblings Jenn and Tristan who have to save their scientist foster dad from goblins big and small in a parallel world just unde...
One of E3 2021/June Summer of Gaming livestream surprises is the announcement of a River City Girls sequel. We adored that 2D beat-em-up, though we wished there was online play and some alleviation from its repetitious nature. The game's sequel will be expanded, reassuring many beat-em-up and Kunio-kun/Double Dragon fans. According to a Silicone...
Do you have the need to beat the crap out of cartoon space aliens as Lebron, Bugs Bunny, and Lola Bunny? You're in luck, because Digital Eclipse has you covered. To celebrate the upcoming release of the Space Jam: A New Legacy basketball cartoon live-action film hybrid, the devs at Digital Eclipse will be releasing Space Jam: A New Legacy - The ...
It's only a matter of time until someone made a combination of the Yakuza games with the 2D Streets of Rage/Bare Knuckle titles. Who knew that it would be Sega of all people to do this? To celebrate Sega's 60th anniversary, Sega is making a free Streets of Rage 2D parody game featuring the Yakuza brand called Streets of Kamurocho. You control ei...
Update: Focus Home Interactive published a statement. It is added into the story. To say that there is some wild s*** going on with the recently-revealed indie sci-fi 2D beat-em-up Aeon Must Die is putting it mildly. Recently this morning, the trailer for the game was revealed. 20 minutes after that, a person under the moniker "Erkki Poots" reveal...
Miss the old-school challenge of Battletoads back in the day? Well, you can try out the 2020 Battletoads exclusive for Xbox One and PC. Players can check out this multiplayer beat-em-up later when it's officially out 20th August. The latest trailer emphasizes the game's mix of brawling, platforming, and top-down shooting. And yes, it's available o...
Streets of Rage 4 is an awesome throwback beat-em-up that's made for 2020; it also pays huge respect to the past 90s series. By now during the weekend you should have at least cleared the game a couple of times. If you notice, there are rankings you can get for each level from the easiest to the hardest difficulty. It's not easy to get the highest ...
Hell yeah, THIS is what I'm talking about. Dotemu just announced that in the upcoming fourth game, you can unlock and play as characters in past Streets of Rage games in their 16-bit pixelated glory. These include SOR1's Axel, Blaze, and Adam, SOR2's Axel, Blaze, Skate, and Max, and SOR 3's Dr. Zan, Skate, Axel, and Blaze. Yes, it's going to look ...
Dotemu recently published a few tracks from its upcoming beat-em-up Streets of Rage 4. Here's a video where we talk a bit about it, followed by some comparisons with the old games. You don't want to miss this, retro gamers! https://youtu.be/dGenJ4JgCCk Like what you saw & heard? Subscribe to us on our YouTube channel, or follow us on Facebook...
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