The core Street Rage game is a decent, if simple premise, in which you just keep fighting ever advancing waves of Ninja Nazis. With ULTIMATE EDITION, you get two additional game modes, which are sorely needed in order for this to be any sort of enjoyable romp. It serves almost like a sequel, picking up the adventures of Kung Fury, Barbarianna, Hackerman, and Triceracops from where the film ended. Kung Fury: Street Rage is a video game adaptation of sorts. I personally recommend watching Turbo Kid if you want to see a bit more theatrically-lengthed mayhem, and a shockingly good performance from Monroe Chambers (of Degrassi fame). It’s not as if the 80s wave wasn’t already underway and still persists to this day. The movie, which had a successful Kickstarter campaign, became the subject of many a meme and plenty of pop culture saturation…for a minute. It’s a half hour long, it’s on YouTube, and it’s worth watching for several things, most notably Jorma Taccone as a martial arts Hitler and an indisputably amazing song from David Hasselhoff. įor those unaware, Kung Fury is a short film from 2015 that is a massive homage to the movies and aesthetics of the 80s, specifically the more bizarre nature of action films and B-movie moments. There are so many questions I have, such as “why?” and “why now?” Playing through this game has answered none of my questions, so now I’m left with three things: a decent review, a curiosity, and a playlist full of synthwave music because you can’t not get into it after a few rounds of Street Rage. When progressing further through the enemy waves, some will be able to teleport side-to-side until they’re defeated, adding much needed variety to the overall repetitiveness of the combat.It’s incredibly weird to try and take the temperature of the world around me when something like Kung Fury: Street Rage – ULTIMATE EDITION comes across my desk. Certain enemy types can can only take one hit while the stronger enemy types take two through four hits. Enemies appear from either side of the screen and it’s up to you to push the corresponding direction once an enemy is in range. You can use the D-pad and the square or circle buttons to attack in either direction. The gameplay revolves around a stage which looks like it was taken straight out of an old school brawler. It’s truly impressive the amount of care that went into making this an authentic experience for instance, the character animations balance a fair amount of gameplay smoothness with limited animations to great effect as to not make timing attacks an impossible venture. The full CRT TV days are in full effect here, showing some on-screen scan lines and lighting which looks like some other light source reflecting back on a monitor. One thing you will notice right away is how Hello There lovingly crafted Street Rage to feel like you are thrown right into a retro arcade cabinet, featuring nice pixel-art throwbacks to a bygone era. The goal is simple: kill as many Nazi thugs, footsoldiers, and weird mechanized doohickies as possible While doing this, you will try to rack up points and combos by kicking, punching, shooting, blowing up, disintegrating, and doing whatever else you can to the ever pursuing enemy force. The goal is simple: kill or destroy as many Nazi thugs, footsoldiers, and weird walking computer things as possible because, well… they’re Nazis. Kung Fury: Street Rage takes place in the Kung Fury movie universe and, of course, you play as the titular cop known as "Kung Fury" and his band of sidekicks Triceracop, Hackerman, and Barbariana. I have to say, I can’t imagine playing this on anything other than a mobile or portable device - the art style and nature of the game compliment it being played in short bursts. Finally, after two years of waiting, Street Rage made its way to the portable it should have been originally released for: the PlayStation Vita. Kung Fury: Street Rage first came out on Android, iOS and PC back in May 2015, coinciding with the live-action movie Kung Fury.Īfter a few months, the tie-in title came to PS4 for a measly two dollars. It's already been around for a while - two years to be exact. The latest version on PlayStation Vita is not the first time Street Rage has been released.
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