We’ll see if this project manages to get off the ground and keep you informed with updates as they eventually come in. This is a case where name recognition may do more harm than good by constraining the story to be in line with a game that it really doesn’t need to have a connection to.
The perplexing aspect of this decision is how Kolstad has proven he can craft a world of his own with his own characters, as seen in “ John Wick” and the Bob Odenkirk action film, “ Nobody.” With that being the case, why tie him down to the Streets of Rage name, especially when the plot of ex-cops, turned vigilante who team up to fight a crime syndicate is generic enough to not need to be related to the game series. So while film production company dj2 Entertainment had that powerful branding and built-in fanbase with the blue hedgehog, Streets of Rage doesn’t exactly pack the same punch, even with a concept based on punching out members of a crime syndicate. Impressive as that is though, that’s hardly the fan base that Sonic the Hedgehog has. Streets of Rage 4 – Virtual Gaming Library – YouTube ChannelĪt the very least, they proved there was an audience for the game as the title has gone on to sell over 2.5 million copies according to Gematsu.
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It took some team members from companies Lizardcube and Dotemu to ask Sega if they could license the property so that they could make the game themselves. And for the record, not even this fourth game in the series was made by Sega.
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They were denied and the resulting game was 1997’s “Fighting Force.” We still wouldn’t get an actual Streets of Rage sequel until 2020, a full 26 years after the last release. They were even approached by Core Design a few years later when the company wanted to license the franchise from Sega to make a sequel. For whatever reason, Sega just didn’t do anything with the IP. Streets of Rage 3 – World of Longplays – YouTube ChannelĮven though the third game wasn’t reviewed as highly as its predecessor, it wasn’t a failure by any stretch.
But then, after “Streets of Rage 3 “ landed in 1994, that was the end of it. The follow up, “Streets of Rage 2” followed in 1992 and was even more positively received than the first. The first title was released for the Genesis (Mega Drive in Europe) in 1991 and was incredibly well received for its multiplayer beat ’em up gameplay and extremely memorably soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro. The “Streets of Rage” franchise has an interesting history though, largely because despite it being one of Sega’s most beloved franchises back in the early 90s, it was also completely abandoned by the game developer/publisher for decades.
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