To celebrate the defeat of the mysterious 'Mr. Skate is the character's nickname in both incarnations his first name in the non-Japanese versions is given as Eddie.Ī year has passed since the events of Streets of Rage. release) American Sammy licensed the arcade game for U.S. In fact, Sega changed the in-game name of the character from "Sammy" in Bare Knuckle 2 (Japanese release) to "Skate" in Streets of Rage 2 (U.S. This arcade game, developed by Kaneko, was later published by Sega on the Mega Drive. The character Skate resembles the eponymous playable character from the game DJ Boy, another side-scrolling beat 'em up. Additionally, level 6 features an enemy named "Souther," another character from Fist of the North Star. The first of the three fat enemies in Stage 5 is named "Heart", as a reference to the popular manga Fist of the North Star (original Japanese name Hokuto No Ken), which featured an extremely overweight martial artist called Heart. Also, Skate had the ability to dash when a direction is double tapped, a feature carried over to all characters in Streets of Rage 3. In addition to their traits and individual moves, the characters now have a "semi-special move": a powerful, non-energy-draining attack, performed by double tapping a direction and pressing punch.
The baseball bat from Streets of Rage is replaced by a katana, which performs the most damage of any weapon in the game.Īside from the differences in weapons and enemies, the characters themselves are given some special abilities and handicaps. A kunai has been added, with the same functionality as the knife. As a trade-off, the knife does much less damage when thrown in Streets of Rage 2. The knife has been tweaked, so the player can throw it at will, whereas in the first game the it could be thrown by accident by the player. The pepper shaker and the Bottle from the original game have been removed. There are also changes to the weapons that can be picked up. There are many new enemies, including bikers, ninjas, kickboxers and robots. Each character's move list has been expanded and edited to make them very individual to play instead of similar with different handicaps.Įnemies are also improved all are given life gauges (previously only bosses used them) and names, and like the selectable characters, given bigger and more individual movesets.
The biggest change is the replacement of the original special attack, which was calling a police car to damage all on-screen enemies, with individual special attacks performed by each character, that depletes some of their health.
Though Streets of Rage 2 plays very similar to its predecessor it improves and refines much of the gameplay. The game introduced two new characters: Max Thunder and Eddie "Skate" Hunter (known as Sammy Hunter in Japan), brother of Adam Hunter from the original game. It is the second game in the Streets of Rage series, a sequel to Streets of Rage and followed by Streets of Rage 3. The game is also playable in the game Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection. Streets of Rage 2, later released in Japan as Bare Knuckle II: The Requiem of the Deadly Battle (ベア・ナックルII 死闘への鎮魂歌 Bea Nakkuru Tsū: Shitō he no Chinkonka), and in Europe as Streets of Rage II with a Roman numeral, is a side-scrolling beat 'em up video game released by Sega in 1992 for the Mega Drive / Genesis console.
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