''Streets of Rage 2'', known as ''Bare Knuckle II'' In Japan, is a
side-scrolling beat 'em up
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video game published by
Sega in 1992 for the
Mega Drive/Genesis
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. A sequel to ''
Streets of Rage
''Streets of Rage'' is a series of side-scrolling beat 'em up video games, centering on the efforts of several ex-police vigilantes trying to rid a fictional, large American city from a crime syndicate that has corrupted its local government. ...
'' (1991), the characters
Axel Stone and
Blaze Fielding
Blaze Fielding (ブレイズ・フィールディング), better known as just Blaze, is a player character in Sega's ''Streets of Rage'' (''Bare Knuckle'') series of beat 'em up games. Introduced in the original ''Streets of Rage'' in 1991, she ...
return while the game also introduces two new characters: Max "Thunder" Hatchet, and Eddie "Skate" Hunter, the younger brother of Adam Hunter from the first game.
''Streets of Rage 2'' was developed by an ad hoc team of several companies: Sega,
Ancient
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, Shout! Designworks, MNM Software and H.I.C.
Ancient
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's Ayano Koshiro was the lead graphic designer and one of the game design planners, while her brother
Yuzo Koshiro
is a Japanese composer and sound programmer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genre ...
composed the music. The game was programmed by the same team as the original.
Upon release, ''Streets of Rage 2'' received critical acclaim and topped sales charts for months. The game is commonly regarded as the best entry in the series, the best beat 'em up game for the Sega Genesis, and is considered one of the
greatest video games of all time
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.
Gameplay
Like the previous game, ''Streets of Rage 2'' is a side-scrolling beat-em-up in which one or two players fight against waves of enemies while picking up weapons and items along the way. Along with returning characters Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding, the game introduces two new characters; Max Thunder, a slow-moving but powerful wrestler, and Eddie "Skate" Hunter (known as Sammy Hunter in the Japanese release), the brother of previous game's Adam Hunter who can move around quickly with his
rollerblades. In addition to standard attacks, which have been expanded from the previous game, each character can perform a unique Blitz Attack by double tapping a direction before attacking. Replacing the police car attack from the previous game, each character can perform Special Attacks which can deal extra damage or attack enemies from all directions at the cost of the player's health. Along with the main campaign, two players can also fight against each other in the game's Duel mode.
Plot
One year has passed since the events of ''
Streets of Rage
''Streets of Rage'' is a series of side-scrolling beat 'em up video games, centering on the efforts of several ex-police vigilantes trying to rid a fictional, large American city from a crime syndicate that has corrupted its local government. ...
''. To celebrate the defeat of the mysterious Mr. X and his criminal organization, The Syndicate, the trio of Adam Hunter, Axel Stone and
Blaze Fielding
Blaze Fielding (ブレイズ・フィールディング), better known as just Blaze, is a player character in Sega's ''Streets of Rage'' (''Bare Knuckle'') series of beat 'em up games. Introduced in the original ''Streets of Rage'' in 1991, she ...
had met at their favorite nightspot in the city, reminiscing about both their vigilante crusade and triumphant victory from within the previous year. Axel and Blaze had moved out of the city after the adventure, with Axel working as a part-time bodyguard and Blaze teaching dance classes. Adam has since rejoined the police force and lives in a small house with his younger brother, Eddie "Skate" Hunter.
The next afternoon, Blaze had received an unexpected yet emergency phone call from Skate, who had informed her that upon arriving at home from school, Skate was shocked to find his house in ruin and his older brother missing. Attached to the front door was a picture of Adam chained to a wall at the feet of Mr. X. The criminals began to retake the streets once more, as beatings and looting took place regularly and in broad daylight; chaos reigned in the city, far worse than before. Realizing that Mr. X and The Syndicate have returned for revenge against them and the city, Blaze wastes no time in informing Axel about the unexpected situation, with Axel himself personally vowing to help Blaze out in defeating Mr. X and rescuing Adam. From within the preparation of their upcoming second battle against Mr. X and The Syndicate, Blaze and Axel are soon joined by Skate, who wishes to help out in rescuing and saving his older brother Adam and Axel's friend, a professional wrestler named Max Thunder who also seeks to help aid Axel and Blaze out as well in rescuing and saving their kidnapped friend.
The quartet soon embarks on a rescue mission, which will take them from the city all the way to Mr. X's hideout on a desolate island, where they will eventually face Mr. X and his bodyguard Shiva. Unlike the other two games in the series, ''Streets of Rage 2'' has only one ending, where Mr. X is defeated and Adam is rescued, after which the heroes leave in a helicopter.
Development
Design and programming
Ancient
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's Ayano Koshiro served as the lead graphic designer and one of the planners on the game design team. She designed the graphics, characters, and combat mechanics. Her brother
Yuzo Koshiro
is a Japanese composer and sound programmer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genre ...
, the lead music composer, also provided some input on the combat. The brother-sister team took inspiration from
Capcom
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's ''
Street Fighter II'', an
arcade cabinet
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of which they had installed at the Ancient office. The hit
arcade video game
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influenced the combat system of ''Streets of Rage 2''.
''Streets of Rage 2'' was coded by the same programming team that did the original game. To make it possible to add more features and additional memory cache, the programmers improved the Mega Drive cartridge specifications.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for ''Streets of Rage 2'' was composed by
Yuzo Koshiro
is a Japanese composer and sound programmer. He is often regarded as one of the most influential innovators in chiptune and video game music, producing music in a number of genres including rock, jazz, symphonic, and various electronic genre ...
, along with three contributions from
Motohiro Kawashima. It was composed using then outdated
NEC PC-8801
The , commonly shortened to PC-88, are a brand of Zilog Z80-based 8-bit home computers released by Nippon Electric Company (NEC) in 1981 and primarily sold in Japan.
The PC-8800 series sold extremely well and became one of the three major Japan ...
hardware alongside Koshiro's own
audio programming language. According to Koshiro: "For ''Bare Knuckle'' I used the PC88 and an original programming language I developed myself. The original was called MML,
Music Macro Language. It's based on
NEC's
BASIC
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program, but I modified it heavily. It was more a BASIC-style language at first, but I modified it to be something more like
Assembly
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Organisations and meetings
* Deliberative assembly, a gathering of members who use parliamentary procedure for making decisions
* General assembly, an official meeting of the members of an organization or of their representa ...
. I called it Music Love'. I used it for all the ''Bare Knuckle'' Games."
[ Reprinted from ]
The soundtrack was influenced by
electronic dance music, specifically
house,
techno,
hardcore techno,
and
breakbeat
Breakbeat is a broad type of electronic music that tends to use drum breaks sampled from early recordings of funk, jazz, and R&B. Breakbeats have been used in styles such as hip hop, jungle, drum and bass, big beat, breakbeat hardcore, and UK g ...
. The soundtrack for ''Streets of Rage 2'' is considered "revolutionary" and ahead of its time,
for its "
blend of swaggering house
synths," "
dirty
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Common types of dirt include:
* Debris: scattered pieces of waste or remains
* Dust: a genera ...
"
and "
trancey electronic textures that would feel as comfortable in a
nightclub as a video game."
Release
In Japan and Europe, ''Streets of Rage 2''s title uses
Roman numerals (''Bare Knuckle II'' in Japan and ''Streets of Rage II'' in Europe) instead of the
Arabic numerals
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used in North America (''Streets of Rage 2''). In the North American version, Blaze's flying kick sprite was slightly edited to be less risqué. The Japanese version also shows Mr. X smoking a cigar, which was edited out of the EU and U.S. versions. The Japanese version gives Skate's first name as Sammy, but in the European and North American versions, his name is Eddie. The European version gives Max's second name as Hatchett; the North American and Japanese versions give it as Thunder.
''Streets of Rage 2'' supports the
Sega Activator peripheral, which was first shown at the January 1993
Consumer Electronics Show
CES (; formerly an initialism for Consumer Electronics Show) is an annual trade show organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). Held in January at the Las Vegas Convention Center in Winchester, Nevada, United States, the event typi ...
(CES), where it was demonstrated with ''Streets of Rage 2''.
Ports
The
Master System
The is an 8-bit
third-generation home video game console manufactured by Sega. It was originally a remodeled export version of the Sega Mark III, the third iteration of the SG-1000 series of consoles, which was released in Japan in 1985 and ...
and
Game Gear
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8-bit versions of ''Streets of Rage 2'' are quite different from the Mega Drive original, and to each other, similar to the Master System/Game Gear version of ''
Sonic the Hedgehog''. In addition to having different levels and the inferior graphics, Max Thunder is omitted from both. The Game Gear version does not show enemy names.
An arcade version of ''Streets of Rage 2'' was released onto Sega's Mega Drive based
Mega-Play hardware. It uses a regular credit system. In this version, all 1-ups have been replaced by money bags, there is no in-game timer and the difficulty levels are one step above the Mega Drive version. Scoring is kept by number of KOs, instead of damage inflicted.
''Streets of Rage 2'' was collected in the ''
Sega Smash Pack'' for Sega's final home console the
Dreamcast. There is also a port of the game as well as the first and third games on the Japanese version of ''
Sonic Gems Collection
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'' for the
PlayStation 2
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and
GameCube
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. The ports on ''Sonic Gems Collection'' are Genesis perfect and are the Japanese versions of the games (they are also available on
GameTap
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). The game appears in ''
Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection'' for
Xbox 360
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and
PlayStation 3. The game appears in ''
Sega Genesis Classics'' for
Xbox One and
PlayStation 4
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.
The game was released for Japan's
Virtual Console on May 15, 2007, and then released on North America's on May 21, 2007, and on Europe's on June 1, 2007. The original game was released for the
iPhone and
iPod Touch
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in April 2011. ''Streets of Rage 2'' was released on the
PlayStation Network
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June 28, 2011 for the PlayStation 3. It was published on Valve's
Steam platform on 26 January 2011, both as stand-alone purchase and part of the ''
SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive Classics Pack 4''. On August 29, 2007, ''Streets of Rage 2'' was released on
Xbox Live Arcade for the Microsoft
Xbox 360
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console, featuring filtered graphics and online co-operative play. It was later removed from the service in June 2012 and replaced with the ''Streets of Rage Collection'', which includes all three games of the series. The game was released on the
Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack on October 25, 2021.
''3D Streets of Rage 2'' was developed by M2 as part of the
3D Classics
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series for the
Nintendo 3DS. It was released on April 29, 2015, in Japan and July 23, 2015, in North America, Europe and Australia.
In addition to being redesigned with the stereoscopic 3D effects of the 3DS, it features two new gameplay modes in Rage Relay and Casual Mode. Rage Relay allows the player to play through the game using all four characters in any chosen order, and will switch to the next in line each time they die. Casual Mode allows players to instantly defeat enemies, including bosses, by knocking them to the ground or using combos.
Reception
Sales
Upon release in North America, it was one of the top five best-selling Genesis games in December 1992,
and among the top five best-selling Genesis games at
Babbage's
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for several months through March 1993.
In Japan, it was the top-selling Mega Drive game in January 1993,
and eleventh on the all-formats chart in its debut week.
In Europe, it was the third best-selling video game between
1992
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and
early 1993, below ''
Super Mario Kart
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'' and ''
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
is a 1992 platform game developed by Sega Technical Institute (STI) for the Sega Genesis. It follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic as he attempts to stop Doctor Eggman from stealing the Chaos Emeralds to power his space stationnamed T ...
''.
In the United Kingdom, ''Streets of Rage 2'' debuted as the number-one best-seller on the all-formats
console game
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chart as well as the Mega Drive chart in January 1993. On subsequent UK sales charts, it was the number-two console game (below ''Super Mario Kart'') and number-one Mega Drive game in February, number-two on the all-formats chart in March, and among the top five console games and top three Mega Drive games in April 1993.
The
Xbox Live Arcade digital version of ''Streets of Rage 2'' sold 184,555 units on the Xbox 360 console, . , Gamstat estimates that the game has 570,000 players on Xbox 360, and players on PlayStation 3. The
free-to-play Android version ''Streets of Rage 2 Classic'' has received more than
mobile game downloads, .
Reviews
Upon release, ''Streets of Rage 2'' received widespread critical acclaim, with scores above 90% from most video game magazines at the time. In the United States, ''
GamePro
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'' gave it a perfect score, stating that "against the ''
Final Fight
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s'' and ''
Super Double Dragon
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s'' of the world, ''Streets of Rage 2'' more than fends for itself" and concluded it to be the "
side-scrolling street fighter to beat."
[''GamePro'', issue 43 (February 1993), pages 42-43] ''
GameFan''s four reviewers gave it scores of 97, 95, 97 and 97. They described it as "the best fighting game" and "best side scroll fighter" they "ever played," praising the gameplay, graphics, sound effects, and Yuzo Koshiro music, concluding it to be "the best fighting sequel of '92."
[''GameFan'', volume 1, issue 3 (February 1993), pages 10 & 16] ''Mega Play'' reviewers gave it scores of 84 and 80, with the former describing it as "definitely one of the best games in this genre for the Genesis" while the latter criticized the special moves for giving "too much strength" and making "the game too easy" but concluded it to be "a solid
two player game".
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Defunct Games, 2014 In Japan, ''
Famitsu'' gave it a score of 26 out of 40.
In the United Kingdom, ''
Computer and Video Games
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'' gave it a highly positive review, with one reviewer Steve Keen stating it "is without doubt the finest scrolling arcade beat 'em up on any format" and that it is like taking ''
Street Fighter II'' and "dumping the characters into a horizontally-shifting arcade extravaganza and that's basically the result you get with this game."
''
Sega Force
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History
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'' reviewers gave it scores of 95, 93, and 92, with one reviewer describing it as the "first 16
Meg" (2
MB) "cartridge to grace the MD," possibly "the best MD game to date and ''definitely'' the best beat 'em up on ''any'' console," and "the best thing to happen to MD owners since the rise of a certain
blue hedgehog," while another described it as "an awesome game" and another stated that it "deserves a place in any gamer's collection"; they concluded that it "Wipes the floor with ''Street Fighter II''."
''
Mean Machines
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Origins
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'' gave it a positive review, describing it as "the ultimate cartridge beat 'em' up on the Megadrive," praising the graphics as "superb, with huge
sprites and great animation" and "loads of enemies attacking at once," the sound and presentation as "of an equally high standard," and the gameplay as "superb, especially in two-player
team mode."
''
Mean Machines Sega
''Mean Machines'' was a multi-format video game magazine published between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom.
Origins
In the late 1980s ''Computer and Video Games'' (''CVG'') was largely covering the outgoing generation of 8-bit computers l ...
'' gave it a positive review, with one reviewer describing it as "a truly
arcade
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* ...
quality beat 'em up" that "beats the spots off any
Neo Geo beat 'em up" and as "simply the best beat 'em up you can get for a console" while another reviewer recommended that, "if you don't like beat 'em ups, buy it anyway, because this game will convert you"; they conclude it to be "the greatest sequel we've seen for ages" and as "certainly the best scrolling beat 'em up ever to hit a home console!"
British television show ''
Bad Influence!
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'' had a panel of teenagers review the game, with the boys scoring it 4 out of 5 stars while the girls scored it a full 5 stars.
Awards
Upon release, ''Streets of Rage 2'' received the Mega Game award from ''
Mean Machines Sega
''Mean Machines'' was a multi-format video game magazine published between 1990 and 1992 in the United Kingdom.
Origins
In the late 1980s ''Computer and Video Games'' (''CVG'') was largely covering the outgoing generation of 8-bit computers l ...
'',
and the Sega Force Smash award from ''
Sega Force
''Sega Force'' was an early 1990s publication that covered the Sega console range (Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, Master System and Game Gear).
History
''Sega Force'', along with ''Nintendo Force'', was initially announced in mid-1991 by Newsfield. ...
''.
The
''GameFan'' Golden Megawards gave it the awards for
Best Game, Best Action Fighting Game, and Best Game Music.
[''GameFan'', volume 1, issue 3 (January 1993), pages 70-71] The ''
Mega
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* "mega-" a prefix meaning "large" that is used in taxonomy
* Gravity assist, for ''Moon-Eart ...
'' Reader Awards voted it the Best Beat-'Em-Up of 1992.
''
Electronic Gaming Monthly
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History
The ...
'' gave it the award for "Hottest Video Game Babe (Blaze)" in 1993.
Retrospective
''Streets of Rage 2'' has been considered by many to be one of the
best games ever made
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. In 2004, readers of ''
Retro Gamer'' magazine voted ''Streets of Rage 2'' as the 64th best retro game of all time,
[''Retro Gamer'' 8, page 67.] and the staff later included in their top ten lists of Mega Drive, Game Gear, and Nomad games. It has also been listed as one of the best games ever made by publications such as ''
Stuff
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'',
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'', February 2014, pp.87–99 and as one of the greatest retro games by sites such as
NowGamer[100 Greatest Retro Games, NowGamer, ]Imagine Publishing
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, 2010
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, 2014.
Music
The game's soundtrack also received a positive reception for its techno-based chiptune
Chiptune, also known as chip music or 8-bit music, is a style of synthesized electronic music made using the programmable sound generator (PSG) sound chips or synthesizers in vintage arcade machines, computers and video game consoles.
The t ...
tracks which impressed many gamers and critics at the time, especially due to the audio limitations of the Mega Drive/Genesis console. In 1993, ''Electronic Games
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'' listed the first two ''Streets of Rage'' games as having some of the best video game music soundtracks they "ever heard" and described Yuzo Koshiro as "just about universally acknowledged as the most gifted composer currently working in the video game field." Notably, the boss theme is considered one of the best boss themes in the 16-bit era
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and of all time. The reception for the soundtrack was so high that the game's music composer, Yuzo Koshiro, was invited to nightclubs to DJ the tracks.
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