Final Fight: Streetwise Critic Reviews

I have no idea why I seem to be loving games more than everyone else right now, but that doesn't change the fact that this is a damn fine beat-em-up, and it's a perfect, mindless, meaty bit of action that the genre sorely needed.

Final Fight was a classic and Streetwise is a long way from some of the crummy remakes that seem to be springing out lately, so if you're the type to go into everything fists flying, then Travers is the perfect character for you.

While Streetwise's story progression is well thought out, the presentation and implementation of the game engine is sorely lacking.

The technical issues and unambitious design come with a chaser of charming silliness.

Unfortunately, the end result is a little more Rambo, a lot less Rocky. It's going to take a rethinking to pull the 3D brawler out of its "me too" phase, and Streetwise certainly isn't helping.

The only real downside is that the upgrade system is worthless.

Thinking-free fun, but just too shoddy to stab our hearts with the flickknife of love.

This is one of those games you’ll look forward to, have a brief amount of fun with, and then wonder what went wrong.

Everything Final Fight made great is conspicuously absent in Streetwise.

You almost have to ask whether Capcom closed Studio 8 out of sheer embarrassment.

Disposable urban nonsense. The barbaric combat may entertain for a while, but it's not long until tedium sets in.

If there's any good reason to purchase, rent or even borrow this game, I haven't found it.

A slightly below average game with some okay fighting action, a nice arcade mode if you're playing co-op and some adult situations that sometimes cross the line into the land of overkill.

Combat featuring counters, reversals, and fighting move upgrades sounds promising, but in practice does little to offset the game’s repetitiveness.

Outside of the occasional thrill of blowing some fool away with a shotgun or breaking a baseball bat over someone's head, there are no redeeming qualities to Final Fight: Streetwise.

There are a lot of things that do pay homage to the original, but this is a shoddy game that lacks polish or any of the simplistic fun offered up by the original.

Exasperating mini-games; bad AI, camera jams, and a slap in the face story to any fan...This is not good...no--this is really not good.

The camera is even worse than in the main mode -- odd, when it could've just taken a zoomed-in version of the isometric view that games like Baldur's Gate have used for eons.

Final Fight: Streetwise pretty much fails to please. A boring story greets you in the main form of gameplay, while the alternate Arcade mode focuses on the lackluster combat.

Erase those memories of halcyon days spent nurturing your arthritis with the original coin-op, because Streetwise does it no kind of justice.