![]() Rather than adding meaningful content to the game, side missions feel like pointless filler. ![]() One mission has you to stepping on roaches, while in another you’re killing rats. You walk to different locations, go through a painfully-dialoged cutscene then fight someone… that is about everything the game has to offer as far as gameplay goes.Ī number of absurd side missions are also available around the city. The opening fight is a good indicator of what to expect from the game as things never get much deeper than button-mashing your way through fights. Somehow Cody has gotten himself involved with the drug, so it is up to Kyle to get him out of the mess.Īfter a “Fight Club”-styled fight that opens up the game, Streetwise opens itself up to a free-roaming mission structure. At the center of the story is a new, highly addictive street drug called “Glow” that gives users super-human strength. You play as Kyle, the younger brother of Final Fight’s protagonist Cody. Of course, there isn’t much to the story to begin with, but the profanity is really unnecessary. Voice work isn’t much better and relies on too many “sentence modifiers” (you know, those fun, four-letter words) rather than good writing. Music is outright bad and basically tries to fit the whole “street” image the game tries to build for itself. The audio side of the presentation is deplorable. Constantly having to stop the action to readjust the camera in order to see what’s around you tends to hamper the gameplay and leads to more than a few cheap shots from enemies. It doesn’t default to your back and instead requires manipulation. The camera doesn’t exactly help out all that much either. Gameplay doesn’t really help out the lack of scenery either since you spend a large amount of time backtracking through areas, as you beat up the same few thugs over and over again. Once you get past the first few areas, the “newness” of it all wears off and dullness sets in. When you first begin, Streetwise looks pretty good. Like other games, Streetwise tries to make up for shortcomings in gameplay with gritty looks and the overuse of four-letter words. In other words, the same gritty, urban environment that has become the vogue with developers over the last few years. Final Fight: Streetwise takes place in a dreary, run-down city overrun by crime and gangs.
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