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Beat em up

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game brings back memories. You can play as all of the original characters in an arcade mode or play the story. This game is great, cheesy and unsophisticated. It's a fun simple game, good graphics. The only part that I was really surprised about was the unlockable original game. It's very choppy and poor quality. The capcom classic collection vol. 1 has an exact, high quality version of the original a

Lame and disappointing

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: May 23, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Capcom's original arcade brawler will be forever remembered as the game to spawn dozens upon dozens of beat 'em up clones that have plagued arcades and consoles for years. With Final Fight: Streetwise, Capcom attempts to revive the long dormant series in full on 3-D street fighting. Playing as Kyle, brother to original FF character Cody, you are on a mission to find your missing brother and you'll take on plenty of enemies as you storm Metro City. The first thing that kills Final Fight: Streetwise is that the beat 'em up genre has become such a trite and generic genre of gaming that even the originator of the genre can't introduce anything fresh to seperate it from hte long list of trite pretenders. Add to this the amount of bugs throughout the game, cumbersome controls, and choppy graphics, and well, you know where this is going. Not to mention the game's storyline and dialogue which feature such over the top language to try to make the game "gritty" that it quickly becomes tiresome. Once you beat the game, you'll be rewarded with having unlocked the original arcade Final Fight to play, but that alone isn't worth the asking price for this, and besides, it's already available on the excellent Capcom Classics Collection which is at a cheaper price. Final Fight: Streetwise may be worth a look for fans of the classic game or fans of beat 'em up's, but both parties would be much better off with Rockstar's the Warriors game, which is a very good beat 'em up that throws in some innovative elements, and it's a game that you'd actually want to play again.

Would be a 2 but..

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I would have rated this game lower if they had not included the original classic as an unlockable in this version. This updating of the Final Fight story takes place a few years after the original. Crime is still rampant and there are still a few heroes willing to stand up to the thugs. The problem with this game is that they really wanted to appeal to the crowd that loves Grand Theft Auto's gritty language and sexual inferences. That would be fine, since I love many mature games, but the creators seemed to think that non stop swearing makes a game gritty. Instead it gets old quickly. The fighting is nothing new, pretty much button mashing. The graphics are a bit choppy and the camera is often out of place so for a few seconds you can't see your guy or the enemies. The story is fair with nothing very original. I will keep this game so I can play to original over and over again. As for the new version, I think once is enough.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 30, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I thought overall, this game was pretty good but it had so much more potential. This game should have been a full out 2 player game like the originals. The story mode even has a feel to it as if they were working on a two player mode and scratched the idea in the very end. Still, a fun game.

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