Streets of Rage 4

Streets of Rage 4 is a video game developed by Dotemu, Guard Crush Games and Lizardcube, released in April 30th, 2020 for the Microsoft Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch and Windows PC. It is the first new installment in the series since Streets of Rage 3 released in 1994. The game takes place around 10 years after the events of Streets of Rage 3.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Streets of Rage is back after 26 years.
 * 2) The game introduces Adam's daughter Cherry Hunter, and Floyd Iraia.
 * 3) Adam is now playable in this game after being unplayable in Streets of Rage 2 and 3.
 * 4) There is so much characters to play As well the new characters, the classic, sprite-based versions of the cast from the previous games can be unlocked. which there is 17 playable characters to play as.
 * 5) Nice redesigns for the characters.
 * 6) The game is just as fun as the first 3 games.
 * 7) You can select a level in Stage Select.
 * 8) You can play up to 4 players.
 * 9) You can play Online with players in game modes like Story Mode, Battle Mode, etc.
 * 10) Great soundtrack
 * 11) Good Voice Acting.
 * 12) There are so many modes like Arcade Mode (were the game is like the classic games), Boss Mode (were you fight all of bosses in the game), and Battle Mode (were you fight with friends).
 * 13) There are so much replayablity, to unlock characters and other secrets.
 * 14) There is a many secrets and references that are a call-back to the classic games.
 * 15) There is so much options to change your game experience, if you love the classic games you have the options to put a retro soundtrack, you can also do in post effect retro it will fully feel like if it was the 3 classic games.
 * 16) Roo the kangaroo makes a cameo appearance.

Version 1.0.6

 * 1) This update introduce the mode Mr. X Nightmare.
 * 2) You can now play as Estel, Max, and Shiva.
 * 3) Roo the Kangaroo is playable from SOR3 by pressing Jump + Special + Start on the "Select Character" screen. When Roo is a combo machine, is a shame that he can´t use weapons.
 * 4) There are also survival mode where you survive as long as you can through different stages
 * 5) There is now a training mode where you can practice with your characters, free training is a good place to play freely.
 * 6) There new character characterization that you can change your characters skin and color. you can also build your own fighting style
 * 7) There are more new weapons, enemies, moves and etc.
 * 8) There are also many unlockables for modes such as free mode for unlocking them from Survival Mode.

The Only Bad Quality

 * 1) The online can be laggy at times, when you or the other person internet having a bad connection.

Reception
Streets of Rage 4 received "generally favorable" reviews on Metacritic getting a metascore of 84/100 on PC and 82/100 on PS4 & Xbox One.

Triva

 * 1) This game follows Bare Knuckle 3's storyline instead of the censored Streets of Rage 3 version (the Rakushin element is mentioned on both Floyd and Zan's profiles, together with the city being referenced as Wood Oak).
 * 2) This is the first game in the series not developed nor published by Sega.
 * 3) This is the first game, since the original, to not feature robotic enemies (the Koobo's don't count as they're cyborgs).
 * 4) This and Streets of Rage 2 are the only games where Big Ben (and any other heavyset enemies) are throwable (though, they have a slower throw/slam animation).
 * 5) A motorcycle segment (which is set after Stage 5) was supposed to be implemented once again (as it includes an unused motorcycle segment in SOR3's screenshot), however due to the amount of work needed to include it, it was scrapped.
 * 6) This game uses the original names for both Galsia and Garnet (whom they are called Garcia and Soozie in the US/EU version of SOR3).
 * 7) Some of the enemies (Galsia, Donovan, Signal, Dylan, Murphy, Garnet and Goro) had an unused final palette swap (2 in Goro's case) as seen in their respective galleries. As these are unused, they have no names.
 * 8) The Mr. X Nightmare DLC was delayed in the Nintendo Switch, which means Switch owners can't play the DLC and have to wait even longer. but luckily it came out in July 26, 2021.