Streets of Rage 4 will consist of four-player regional cooperative play, publisher and co-developer Dotemu announced Monday. The revival of Sega’s traditional beat- ’em- up game series will likewise include online play, however it will be restricted to 2 players.
Previous games in the Streets of Rage franchise topped out at 2 players all at once.
In addition to new multiplayer information, Dotemu and designers Guard Crush Games and Lizardcube likewise exposed the 5th (and final) playable character concerning Streets of Rage 4: Floyd Iraia. Signing Up With Alex, Blaze, Adam Hunter, and Cherry Hunter, Floyd is an initial character who’s tanky and effective. His motion and health recovery is slower than the rest of the lineup, however Floyd offsets it by having the longest reach and, well, he has an arm cannon that shoots a fat laser.
Floyd does have a tie-in to the franchise; his cybernetic arms were a present from Dr. Zan, the researcher cyborg from Streets of Rage 3.
Streets of Rage 4 is concerning Nintendo Change, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One this spring.
Lizardcube, Guard Crush, and Dotemu announced Streets of Rage 4 in2018 The fighter will include music from Streets of Rage authors Yuzo Koshiro and Motohiro Kawashima, along with music from factors Yoko Shimomura, who composed music for the initial Street Fighter 2 and the Kingdom Hearts series; Hideki Naganuma, understood for his deal with the Jet Set Radio, Sega Rally, and Super Monkey Ball games; and Keiji Yamagishi, who composed music for Ninja Gaiden and Tecmo Bowl.