Collect gold and experience, save wenches and discover new loot. Move the joystick up and down to use your shield to block incoming attacks and power up for a counterattack. Loosely related to Final Fight (it's metro city in the future) and plays similarly to it (but faster) and you can use special timing-based moves to wreck shit up like Cap's mid-air fire blasts, Baby's Haggar-inspired wrestling moves, etc.Ī watered down Punch-Out!! in RPG format, IN THE GODDAMN MIDDLE AGES. Notable for its gruesome death sequences. OKAY, GO!Ĭhoose one of four superhero characters to smash and bash through enemies. Be careful when fighting bosses though, since they tend to move pretty fast, with little start-up to their animations and attacks. The few intermittent side-scrolling shmup-like levels in the sky are also pretty damn cool. THE AVENNNNGERRRRS! While somewhat simplistic, it's regarded as a classic for its fast-paced thrashing, comic-book aesthetics, and wicked cool soundtrack. The gun factor is pretty cool, giving it aspects of the Arcade "The Punisher" game, but the control scheme doesn't shift like that game and you get way more gun variety (rifles, uzis, bazookas, etc.) and when you're out of ammo, you can even swing (or throw) the gun around as a weapon! Like other "later-era" Capcom beat 'em ups, you can use some inputs (like down, then up+attack or dash+attack) for special moves. Fight dinosaurs, drive cars, and shoot guns, all in the dystopian future. Unlike the rest of the games, attacks involving something sharp or extremely heavy will produce blood, and it's the only game were you can play as any of the three toads.ģ player simultaneous beat 'em up. Be warned, this is a VERY long game, and it's just as tough as the rest of the Battletoads series. Three players can control Rash, Zitz and Pimple, each with their own Smash Hit attacks. One of the best beat 'em ups exclusive to the arcade. Of the eccentric cast (a child on a pink ostrich? A talking plant monster? The fuck?) only a fraction of them are useful like Cyber Blue, who utterly stomps shit like Ken from Street Fighter (Shoryu Reppa? Clever, Capcom). Has a neat little shop mode in between missions where you can buy improved movesets, extensions to your lifebar and continues. One of those cool Konami licensed beat'em ups, you choose between Asterix and Obelix and do exactly what they do in the comics: kick some Roman asses! Each stage is based around one of their classic adventures.Īlmost similar to Captain Commando, now with 110% more awesome. When playing cooperative you can fuse the mechas to create some crazy behemoths to destroy everything. Giant mechas! You choose your pilot and go destroy other mechas, who eventually drop parts which you can attach to your own mecha. This game's magic power is to summon a giant genie who literally blows away all enemies. You can choose from four characters, who must kick the butt of an evil wizard who turned the king into a monkey. Bar none the best beat 'em up on the arcade. Developed by Capcom, so expect some very smooth controls and SHOULDER CANNON! JUMP KICK! varied movesets. Take control of a military cyborg or Predator and lash out at the encroaching alien swarm and corrupt Weyland-Yutani corporation. The movie may have sucked but this MOST CERTAINLY DID NOT. Every now and then you enter first-person shooting sequences where you can cause mayhem with you guns and also some short shoot'em up sequences where your characters run like hell pursuing the damn aliens. Plays sort of like Golden Axe but with guns. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president? FlyerĬrazy ass Sega beat'em up where you face off against stinking aliens and must pulverize them. The president has been kidnapped by ninjas.
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