If you like smashing face and swearing a whole lot, chances are you'll dig this game. That about sums up our recent experience with Final Fight. Seems like an accurate representation of real life, if you ask us.
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There are also lots of mini-games Kyle can play when he gets bored like Dice, Three Card Monte, and the Roach Stomp. And if Kyle gets hurt he can just purchase booze from the local liquor store to refill his health. He'll also learn Street Fighter-esque moves from Guy, super martial arts master. Later on Kyle will be able to learn wrestling moves from Hagar, the mayor. It seemed the more pornographers we beat to death, the more our tension grew, which garnered us points we could exchange for experience after hitting the bag or pumping iron or whatever. We realized too that all the deserved beatings were helping us acquire significant amounts of tension we could burn off at the local gym. Later we slammed a guy's face in a door to get some info and he's like, "Ah! Oh God! Ah! Please stop!" So that's some pretty good info. Dudes, a porn store is exactly where you do not want to get into an arm wrestling match, so we used the game's simple branching conversation system to insist he shove off then, we hit him and his band of porn goons, the "Blue Ballers," with some chairs. After going in and demanding to see the owner, we were challenged to an arm wrestling match by the kid behind the counter. The whole thing went a little weirder than expected.
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Since we needed to earn a little bit of love after choking out an old woman with a baseball bat, we headed over to the local pornographer's establishment to pick a fight with whatever piece of crap happened to be holding down the sexy fort. Do good things, complete missions and whoop baddies and you'll be rewarded with points, become a jerk and the passersby will turn into savage assailants. Final Fight actually uses a basic respect system. Note that while there is a two-player cooperative mode, it's a completely separate beast and is more akin to a conventional sidescrolling beat 'em up, albeit in 3D.īack in the solo game, we used Kyle to toy around with nearby civilians by kicking them in the stomach. They also give players a chance to appreciate Final Fight's damage system, which includes a variety of bruise and cut decals on combatants in single combat.Īs for the rest of the game, Kyle essentially wanders around districts in Metro City picking up missions, partaking in mini-games, progressing through the story, and advancing himself with a variety of learned moves and abilities. Though the one-on-one fights don't last too long, they give players a good opportunity to get acclimated to the controls without being overburdened by too many foes.
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Expect light and strong punch variants to complement throws, dodges, charged attacks, and well-timed blocks that can stun enemies and then be turned into counters with good timing. In fact, the game features a basic assortment of attacks. These sorts of one-on-one matches against super jerks will be sporadically interjected throughout the course of Final Fight to give the game a more solid 3D fighter feel, but that's not to say the mechanics behind Streetwise are made to rival VF4: Evolution or anything like that. The game kicks off with a fight between Kyle and Handsome Bob, an arrogant crap-bag who thinks he'll best our champ without a challenge. So even if the city is crazy on dope and Cody is lost in some mobster's torture chamber, at least the nights will still be cozy! Kyle also has a sexy and tough girlfriend, Vanessa. Along the way Kyle will meet old friends, new enemies, earn respect, and eventually discover a drug that's causing the city's populous to go all riotous. Now it's up to Kyle to wander the mean streets of Metro City looking for his brother. Just when things couldn't possibly get worse, Cody gets nabbed by a group of hardcore thugs after a casual barroom tussle.