For instance, early on, you’re imprisoned and have to break out. But the latest entry makes things much more interesting by constantly changing things up with new scenarios. Streets of Rage is a pretty simple game: you walk down the street and punch bad guys.
The most impressive thing to me, though, is the encounter design. Each character has basic attacks along with two kinds of special moves: one that drains your health and another, more powerful blow that requires relatively rare stars that you pick up along the way. You can knock out bad guys and steal their weapons, like pipes and knives, and break mailboxes to get health-filling apples and roast turkeys. Streets of Rage 4 is a 2D side-scrolling beat ‘em up, where your main job is to continue moving to the right while punching everything that gets in your way. The core gameplay is identical to past games. The story once again mostly involves cleaning up the streets, which are overrun by shady police and far-reaching crime syndicates. Axel is back, this time bulkier and with a gnarly beard, while Adam Hunter returns to fight alongside his guitar-wielding daughter Cherry. The new game takes place a decade after Streets of Rage 3 and features a number of returning characters alongside new fighters. This is still authentic Streets of Rage, but in a way that works for 2020. But Streets of Rage 4 also manages to modernize the experience in key ways - through both its design and visuals - to make it feel unmistakably modern. You still wander the streets, listening to kickass Yuzo Koshiro tracks, while pummeling street punks and bad cops. The just-launched beat ‘em up comes 26 years after Streets of Rage 3 graced the Sega Genesis, and, in many ways, the experience is the same. Kolstad is repped by APA, Circle of Confusion, and Behr Abramson Levy dj2 by APA and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP.Video games get sequels all the time, but it rarely happens more than two decades after the original trilogy concluded - and it’s even rarer when that sequel is as faithful as Streets of Rage 4. Chad Stahelski is directing from a script by Takashi Doscher. Also coming up is an adaptation of Ghost of Tsushima from Sony and PlayStation Productions. Kolstad is the latest John Wick creative to take on a video game adaptation. The fourth film in his John Wick franchise has been slated for release on March 24, 2023, following a delay imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In addition to writing Nobody, he recently served as a co-executive producer on Disney+’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. dj2 signed an overall deal with Amazon earlier in the year and also is looking to adapt The Game Awards winner It Takes Two for television and film.Īlso in the works from Kolstad is the heist thriller Just Watch Me, starring Gerard Butler. Streets of Rage will be the latest project under dj2 Entertainment’s belt, following Sonic the Hedgehog 2‘s impressive box office performance. Sonic producer dj2 Entertainment and Escape Artists ( Equalizer franchise) will produce the film adaptation. Screen Gems Developing 'Two And Only' As Starring Vehicle For Ariana DeBose, With Script From Jen Rivas-DeLoose DeBose Also Exec Producing