All of the characters and environments in the first game were designed largely by Sega veteran and industry icon Noriyoshi Ohba, who is also behind the design in game series such as Panzer Dragoon, Shinobi and Skies of Arcadia. After Streets of Rage, however, he wanted to take on a producer role and step down from the design podium, which led Sega to hire the external studio Ancient Corp to draw the graphics for the sequel. Behind the new environments and new characters  Max Thunder + Eddie "Skate" Hunter was Ayano Koshiro, who together with his brother also designed the new attacks and upgrades in the game mechanics.

Streets of Rage (1991) was a massive, massive success for Sega which meant that they naturally put a lot of effort into the second which was released 14 months later and was a combined development where Ancient, Sega, Shout Design Works and MNM Software. In many ways, you can thus call this one of the gaming world's first "joint effort" games, which today is more common than it is unusual as game series such as GTA, Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed are always developed by a handful of studios. simultaneously.

I always liked the first more than the second and the third and when I think back on it today I honestly don't even know why it turned out that way. The second is generally considered the better game compared to the original and I played it like a sweaty ferret, but reached the magic of Street of Rage never did, not for me. There was something very special about the beat 'em up genre and the "vigilante" games of this era, though. Because it was always about how drugs and corruption, kidnappings and robbery murders in the city where everything took place led to two or three muscle men/women tying up their butt-packer boots and going out on the sidewalk to kick their butts in cubic and eat (dirty) grilled chickens. Charm galore , is probably the easiest way to describe the whole genre - for myself.

Previous parts from this series:

Art of Fighting

Fighting Vipers

My Hero

IK+

Fatal Fury

Karate Kid

Double Dragon

Fighters Destiny

Shadow Warriors

Kung-Fu

Pro Wrestling

3 Count Bout

Dead or Alive

Burning Fight

Star Gladiator

Batman Returns

Street Fighter Alpha 3

Power Stone

He doesn't have a bad track record, ILM veteran Phil Tippett. Or how about Star Wars: New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Willow, Robocop, Starship Troopers and Jurassic Park - among others. A real giant, of course, and now Vice has put together a small documentary about the old man as part of their Profiles series and it's about ten minutes that all film buffs should check out. Go!

I had really been looking forward to The Monkey as it has appeared completely freaked out in the trailers that I have seen. Demon-death-toy monkey hammers on little drum and people die like flies, without explanation. Based on a short story from King, directed by the old man behind Longlegs. And now I've seen it. And it was somewhat disappointing, because it wasn't freaked out enough. For my part, it felt a bit like Perkins wanted to freak out in terms of narrative but didn't really dare, and that holds it back - which is sad. The best of this movie was already shown in trailer number one, the rest feels sadly filler. But sure, nice and bloody, it was - anyway.

Liam Lawson kicked. Exchanged. As the kidz says, Horner and his bright red bulls have "No Chill", demonstrably. This despite tolerating Perez downright miserable driving in their second car in Formula 1 in season-after-season, patience is on the whole - exhausted. It became official earlier today that Lawson only got two measly races on him on tracks he had never driven before - before he was replaced. Instead, the car will now be driven by Tsunoda and I don't think it will get much better, honestly. Max's own hunt for the sport's most sensitive front suspension by far has gone so low that the car seems almost impossible to drive for everyone except him. Albon compared Red Bull's car (via Max's wishes and requirements) with a computer mouse at 2800 DPI that they set up at maximum sensitivity. If you touch the steering wheel one centimeter, the car turns several meters - Something that makes every single driver who drives it apart from Verstappen - fail. Do you think that Tsunoda can make any difference here?

The Switch theme week continues and after Jonas' article about Switch 2 and what we can expect from Wednesday's presentation, it's now almost time for the editorial team to choose what we consider to be the ten best games for Nintendo Switch. A list that I honestly thought would be smooth and easy to put together, which it wasn't. Haha. We've been at it for over a month (!) discussing back and forth, back and forth. Here and there. Here and there. But now it's done, I'm putting it together right now and publishing in a little over 30 minutes. Don't miss out! Go!

Added: Now it's live