
They also felt different with no character feeling overpowered or underpowered.

They all have slightly different stats like power, technique (special moves), speed, jump, and stamina.

This time around there are four choices – Axel and Rose (from the first game), Skate (Adam’s little brother), and a beefy guy named Max. Once starting the game, you are given the opportunity to select a player. You and your ragtag group of heroes must lay the smackdown on Mr. Streets or Rage 2 is a side scrolling beatem’up set in a once peaceful city now filled with raging streets of violence. Taking place one year after the first game where Adam, Axel, and Rose beat up Mr.X – the syndicate gang boss – the story picks up with Mr.X returning and capturing Adam in revenge. This review reconfirms one of my original reasons for starting this website – to find and play awesome games that I missed in my youth. Streets of Rage 2 is one of those games that must be played by anyone who owns a Genesis. Growing up, my favourite beat’em up series was Golden Axe on the genesis – it was fantasy brutality destruction with a friend! As I was so satisfied with the series, I never ventured outside of it.
