Streets Of Rage: What Can Fans Expect From A Film Adaptation?

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A trio of two-fisted heroes facing off against an army of goons with nothing but their martial arts skills and whatever they can pick up off the street. With a thirty-year-old franchise built around an idea that simple, it's surprising that no one has made a fast-paced action movie out of it already.

Streets of Rage, known as Bare Knuckle in Japan, is a four-game franchise of luminaries in the beloved side-scrolling beat 'em up genre. The original games were hits of Sega's golden era that spawned a fervor over the series' long hiatus and its eventual grand revival in 2020. That revival was so successful that it spawned more than a new hit game — it's bringing out a full feature film adaptation.

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The firstStreets of Ragedropped onto the Sega Genesis in 1991. Inspired by its peers like Final Fight and Double Dragon, the game tasked its players with fist-fighting armies of enemies to progress through dangerous urban environments. Players could choose from a trio of playable characters with different capabilities and use a variety of found objects as weapons to defeat their foes. The plot, as with most of its peers, was extremely sparse. It follows three to four cops who seek to shut down the operations of a deadly crime syndicate led by the evil Mr. X, who has taken over the city's government. Blocked at every level by their gang-owned superiors, this small group of determined cops must take to the streets to dispense vigilante justice. It's a very simple plot, prime for a non-stop white-knuckle action thriller.

When it comes to video game movies, all hope was lost until very recently. Sega's own Sonic the Hedgehog film franchise has been an incredible reversal