Streets of Rage 3

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Streets of Rage 3 is the series at its fastest and most experimental. Sega and Ancient took the formula that worked so well in the second game and kept pushing: fighters can now dash, roll out of trouble along the vertical axis and pull off weapon-specific moves, while a recharging power meter means specials no longer cost health when it is full. The result is a brawler with more moving parts than either of its predecessors, built for players who want to master a system rather than mash through it.

The story pulls the crew into something stranger. Mr. X has teamed up with Dr. Dahm on a plot to replace city officials with lifelike robots, and Axel, Blaze and Skate are joined by Dr. Zan, a cyborg scientist who fights with electrical attacks and turns any weapon he picks up into a ball of energy. Max sits this one out. Patient players can also unlock hidden fighters, including Mr. X's bodyguard Shiva and a boxing kangaroo named Roo, the kind of secret that spread across school lunch tables.

The western release has its own twist. Compared with Japan's Bare Knuckle III, the North American version was reworked with a different plot, toned-down content and a noticeably harder difficulty, so the Genesis cartridge is a tougher fight than the original Japanese game. Multiple endings hinge on how you handle key moments in the story, which gives a reason to run it again. Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima's soundtrack swerves into harsher, more abstract techno than the second game, divisive at the time and championed by plenty of fans since.

If Streets of Rage 2 is the trilogy's crowd-pleaser, the third game is its expert mode: tougher, faster and more ambitious, with two-player co-op that rewards partners who learn the new defensive tools together. It is the natural next cartridge once the second game's streets start to feel too familiar, and the finale of Sega's original 16-bit trilogy.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
1994
Publisher
Tec Toy
Developer
Ancient
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game

The mysterious crime boss Mr. X has enlisted the help of Dr. Dahm in creating lifelike robots to replace key city officials, and soon will be able to run the entire city by remote control. Strategically placed bombs are being used to distract the city police while Mr. X deals with the city leaders one by one.

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