![]() Each character has a unique fighting style. Once you have comrades, some missions let you choose who should accompany you to a rumble while others specify a certain friend. You just complete the missions and things happen. None of this is ever melodramatic or a pain in the butt. After you knock enough sense into them, they’ll help you to topple those greater threats that lie just beyond another plot twist. Mostly, they’re boss characters you’ve been fighting. Sometimes, so did I.Īround twenty-five missions in, other gang members join your team. The game switches things up, sure, but I swear I beat Golem five or six separate times. I saw that particular menu a lot, mostly when I was fighting some guy named ‘Golem.’ This brings me to my first gripes with the game: it gets downright difficult near the end and some of the most irritating enemies are recycled repeatedly. Or, maybe you just take more abuse until you’re lying on the ground as the game cuts to slow motion and a menu that asks you if you want to retry. Then maybe you strike back with a flurry of fists. You stumble about while your adversaries beat you like crazy and there’s nothing you can do until you recover your senses. Sometimes you fail to dodge and a kick to the face leaves you seeing stars. Everything happens in a few short seconds. You snatch it from the air, spin to your left and bring it down on the first gangster’s head. The fool starts to swing, but you kick him in the gut and the weapon slips from his hands. He groans and tries to rise to his feet while you move past him to the guy with the bat. ![]() You duck to the side and grab him at the knees. The waiting thug has anticipated your attack and he’s swinging a punch of his own. Quickly, you rush forward and sweep one of them off his feet with a roundhouse kick, then turn to the side. One is carrying a pipe and the other two are shuffling lazily. Three gangsters are coming at you from one side of a fountain. Let’s say you’re fighting in a park, to the sound of grinding rock music. That might not sound so good, but when you experience it, everything changes. Finally, the ability to target specific body parts adds yet another dimension. Later in the game, you can even pick up or throw weapons. However, the finer points of each of these moves combine for some real mayhem. You can only punch, kick, grapple, dodge or run for most of the game’s first half. That’s partly because you’ll be too busy fighting to notice, and partly because the combat system is interesting enough that you’ll want to use it properly as quickly as possible.Īt first, its depth seems marginal. You’re not really playing the game at this point, just going through a tutorial that for once doesn’t suck. One mission might see you knocking down any one goon, while another may ask you to break someone’s legs. Urban Reign coddles you for the first twenty matches. Most of the time, there’s only one blemish: the ugly buffoons who haven’t learned that you kick more ass than they ever will.Įducating them is easy at first. The makeshift arenas aren’t large, but they give you room to work with and they look great. Every environment is detailed and impressive, from a junkyard with cars piled in heaps and on their sides, to a garage where mini-vans take damage as you knock goons against them or strike them with a segment of pipe. It might be in an alley or a tavern, on a rooftop or in a street, or somewhere else entirely. Choose one and you’re off to a fight in about ten seconds. The general structure works like this: you look at a map with a few blips that represent missions. No one cares what outfit you wear and the cops are on vacation. You don’t have to keep a list of phone numbers in a little black book. ![]() You don’t have to search for allies hidden away in parks and subways. That’s where you come in.Īs Brad Hawk, your only goal is to kick ass. Her name is Shun Ying Lee and she wants him to show some rival gang members that she deserves their respect. He leaves them where they fall and saunters off to see his new employer. On the way to his newest job, he interrupts some gangsters talking in an alley and beats the crap out of them, just because he can. That might not sound so good, but when you experience it, everything changes."įrom his name to his haircut, Brad Hawk means business.
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