2011-04-03
Streets of Rage Remake is a fan-made two-player brawler for PC that combines all three Streets games into one package and adds new fighters, stages, enemies, and branching paths. It has Streets 3's combat engine, including star-based dash attacks and a recharging energy bar, although you can change the rules to make it more like Streets 2. It features a whopping 18 characters including three versions each of Axel and Blaze.
This game was developed by a small team of Spanish guys over the better part of a decade. They reverse-engineered the game mechanics by watching footage of the game and analyzing it frame-by-frame to perfectly recreate the Streets experience. To play as alternate SOR1/SOR2 versions of characters, you have to unlock it by spending coins in the shop. Then, on the character select screen, press the "Series" button to cycle between versions.
Streets of Rage Remake is the best brawler ever as far as I'm concerned. It takes Streets 3's ingenious combat system and applies it to all the content from the trilogy with amazing accuracy. It's blisteringly difficult yet infinitely satisfying, and there's so much content here that it has huge replayability. Plus, it's completely free!
