Video Game / Streets of Rage Remake

Streets of Rage Remake is 2011 free fan game based on Streets of Rage, developed by Spanish fan developer group Bomber Games. Claiming itself as an unofficial remake, it's basically a mish-mash of the three games with a lot of original and remixed content added; to make room for all the levels, the game makes extensive use of branching paths. Highlights include being able to play as any character in the series so far (including Adam) and Multiple Endings.

After eight years of development, the group eventually released their work, only to be pulled down from the developer's site at Sega's request (although details are sketchy, basic reckoning concludes that they did not want unsolicited competition for their eventual compilation re-release on Xbox LIVE), but not before having received wide coverage and spread with unofficial updates fixing the game. So don't worry, you can find it easily with a simple search.

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Tropes exhibited specifically in this remake include:

• Achievement System: The unofficial v5.2 release of the game added Trophies to the game. These range from buying everything from the shop, beating the game on Mania difficulty, save Roo from Bruce, and defeating Abadede as Max by finishing him with a powerbomb move.
• Acrofatic: In the remake, Bongo adds a leaping elbow to his offense. He only does it if you crowd him after he's been knocked down, and is invulnerable while doing it. It's to prevent players from stun-locking him. Also, he can run really fast while breathing fire.
• Adaptational Alternate Ending: In Remake, Shiva is the final boss of the SOR3 route. You actually have the choice of trying to defeat him before or after you disable the bomb... it's extremely satisfying and difficult to beat him while the clock is ticking, but then you're left with an alternate version of the worst ending.
• Adaptational Villainy: A retroactive example in Shiva, whom in this game is almost suicidally evil, going as far as to challenge the player to a duel while the building they're in is about to explode. In Streets of Rage 4 (released after this game), Shiva leaves the Syndicate in protest of their mind-controlling experiments, and even joins the heroes to help take it down.
• Adapted Out:
  • The Rakushin, which was the primary threat in the original 3 is completely absent here, likewise, General Petrov (apart from a passing mention via news flyer) makes no physical presence.
  • Break, a robotic clone of Axel is nowhere to be seen and is the only boss who isn't fought in any of the 3 branches.
• Afro Asskicker: If Skate beats Mr. X he throws his hat off in celebration, revealing a small afro underneath it.
• A.I. Breaker: Mona and Lisa lost the AI Breaker from the first original game, but now you can just grab them as they are getting up from the floor. They don't escape from this unlike most bosses.
• Anatomy Arsenal: Extendable Arms aside, the game gives Zan a machine gun arm and an Arm Cannon as blitz specials when holding a gun or a bazooka respectively. Since they make use of the special meter, they can be used even when said weapons are out of ammo.
• And Your Reward Is Clothes: You can purchase the option to change some of the characters outfits (specifically what they wore prior to the second or third games) and have other color options as well. In Max's case, you can purchase a version where he uses the beta stance instead (a.k.a. how he was going to stand like in the completed SOR2 game).
• Artificial Stupidity: Invoked with the "Stupid" setting for the friendly AI. Even on the other settings, the AI partner completely ignores whether its attacks will damage the player. Thankfully, friendly fire can be turned off in the options. Also, the AI tends to waste its police summons on mooks the moment they fall below a certain HP threshold rather than save them for bosses.
• Ax-Crazy: You are re-introduced to Souther while he is brutally slashing some poor offscreen fella to ribbons, standing on a giant pool of blood!
• Badass Biker: Jack already looks like he could be a biker, but in Remake, he actually attacks you while riding a motorcycle.
• Batter Up!: Adam can use special moves with baseball bats.
• The Battle Didn't Count: Happens when you fight Rudra as a boss. After all you've had to do to defeat her, the following cutscene has her using some kind of jutsu (which she never used during the fight) to freeze the heroes on the spot. She then says she's not their enemy, frees them and flees.
• Becoming the Mask: Rudra in one of the endings.
• Bloodier and Gorier: The final version features copious amounts of blood when guns or a bladed weapon are used, graphic bisections when a foe is finished with a sword, blown up, or run down, and one boss brutally murdering someone mostly offscreen before he turns his attention towards the player(s). The blood and gore in the game can be turned off however, setting the violence level back to the Genesis/Mega Drive games.
• Boss Remix: Has four: ("Attack of the Barbarian" and "Never Return Alive"), and Rudra's boss theme (a remixed version of Yamato's theme). The fight against Orihime and Yasha on the SOR3 route remixes SOR3's boss theme.
• Boss Rush: An unlockable gameplay mode.
• Boss Warning Siren: Played with in the remixed boss theme, which begins with a sample that sounds like a siren.
• Bottomless Magazines: The gun-wielding enemies never run out of ammunition, while you get stuck with Throw-Away Guns. A cheat can be bought granting this feature to players, as well.
• Cain and Abel: The Streets Of Rage 1 route to the bad ending with both Adam and Skate can have the two brothers fighting each other to the death.
• Car Fu: The Streets Of Rage 2 route begins with the cop car mowing down three Galsias. Can also be used in-game when you call the for the police backup as enemies outside of the screen to the left also stand a chance of getting run down by the cop car.
• Cyborg: Elle, an unlockable character fitted with prosthetic whip-hands.
• Combat Pragmatist: Just like the original games, Mr. X makes up for his lack in martial arts training with a tommy gun and an army of mooks. And as a playable character, he gets a brutal and dirty set of brawling moves.
• Composite Character: The "Galvice" enemy, whose name is portmaneau of Galsia and Vice, is essentially an SOR3 Galsia wearing Vice's vest. He has some unique moves though.
• The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard:
  • Onihime and Yasha take off more of your health per successful impact than the final boss. In Mania, getting suplexed by either of them is a guaranteed death, no matter how high your health is! No other boss, not even in their respective game, does that much damage at once.
  • The boss with knife-hands will shadow-step and counter any jumping attacks, and their reach is slightly longer than your own.
  • Mr. X owns a Tommy-Gun, and is more than happy to mow down your character whenever he pleases! At least the bullets barely do any damage.
• Crosshair Aware: In the first level of the Streets Of Rage 2 route, one segment now has you try to avoid a sniper enemy's crosshair before he can shoot you (though you can lure him into shooting mooks). Thankfully (?), he only appears once.
• Cyborg: Cyborg versions of Jet appear with multiple weaker human Jets on a few different occasions.
• Dance Battler: According to Skate's profile, his style is "breakdancing". His crowd control move is a windmill breakdance.
• Developer's Foresight: How does Roo, a kangaroo with boxing gloves, ride motorcycles and motorboats? He rides pillion with the police officer that backs the team up whenever a vehicle section is played.
• Difficulty Levels: Easy, Normal, Hard, Very Hard, and Mania.
• Divergent Character Evolution:
  • The remake fully separates the two sets of twins, Onihime/Yasha and Mona/Lisa. Onihime and Yasha are the set of twins that resemble Blaze, and Mona and Lisa are the more muscular, American looking twins with ground spark powers.
  • Soozie/Ruby in Streets of Rage 3 became two different characters, as well as one with tights and a tube top.
• Doesn't Like Guns: Roo now knows how to use melee weapons, but he will immediately throw any firearm he picks up.
• Doppelgänger Attack: Rudra performs one when she Turns Red, summoning two extra clones of herself to fight you.
• Downer Ending: One of the endings that involves you failing to escape Mr. X's hideout before it explodes. The explosion levels several buildings within a several block radius and many lives are lost while the real Mr. X is free to roam and cause more chaos. You also get to see your fellow police officer giving a solemn salute to the fallen heroes as they are laid to rest.
• Drives Like Crazy: Donovan leaves the driving seat of his pickup truck during a chase sequence in one stage to throw knives and oil drums at you. It works as well as you might expect.
• Dual Boss: Some paths have you fight two Bongos. There is also an unlockable cheat to always spawn dual bosses.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: The game plays with this:
  • You have the Axel from 1, who's the Mighty Glacier with short combos but more powerful attacks, the Axel from 2 who's more of Jack of All Stats with an extra special attack, and the Axel from 3, who's a Lightning Bruiser that moves quickly but hits for less damage per attack.
  • The Blaze from 1 has more power but less speed and combos less, the Blaze from 2 is Jack of All Stats, and the Blaze from 3 is a Fragile Speedster.
• Earn Your Bad Ending: One of the two worst endings requires the player to defeat one of the toughest bosses in the game, Shiva with his SoR3 AI, on a time limit.
• Excuse Plot: Done intentionally.
• Exploding Barrels: Found in this remake, although they blend together in with the non-exploding barrels.
• Expy: Remake makes R. Bear's resemblance to Bald Bull from Punch-Out!! clearer, when one of his palette swaps is called Bald Bear.
• Face–Heel Turn: If you accept Mr. X's offer to join him. This can lead to funky situations when you, for instance, unlock Mr. X and defeat Mr. X as Mr. X to BECOME THE BOSS.
• Failure Is the Only Option: No good comes from the route that ends with Robo X. If you somehow get out of the building alive and stop the explosives, you escape the bad endings but get a neutral A Winner Is You ending because the real Mr. X got away.
• Fan Remake: A particularly ambitious one that runs under Windows, combines levels and enemies from all three games and adds its own, sports remastered graphics plus new ones in the same style, a completely remixed soundtrack, adds gun weaponry, has nineteen playable characters, and lots of unlockables, including a level editor. An earlier version had a Super version of Shiva who was removed in the final version.
• Fanservice: There's an Easter Egg in the game where Blaze goes topless as she gets knocked down.
• Fanservice Pack: You can purchase the option to add panty shots in the store. v5.2 also has a trophy for getting an pantyshot of Blaze in the Screens of Rage screenshots after beating the game.
• Flanderization: Not that Ash wasn't already a raging homosexual stereotype, but Remake plays it up even more, using a patchwork of female voice clips for his new attacks, replacing his death scream with the one used by women in 3, and having him pole dance in one level.
• Final Boss:
  • Mr X acts as this in most routes, speficically his SoR2 version.
  • In the SoR3 route Shiva is the final boss. You actually have the choice of trying to defeat him before or after you disable the bomb... it's extremely satisfying and difficult to beat him while the clock is ticking, but then you're left with an alternate version of the worst ending.
• Gainax Ending: The game's ending if beaten in Mania mode.
• Game-Breaking Bug: You can call on the police for help. One of their attacks is a rocket launcher which creates a circle of fire. If the rocket lands in a Bottomless Pit, the game stalls — nothing can move until the animation finishes, and due to a programming oversight, the game never counts the animation as finished if it can't start. You can't even pause the game — the only way out is to close the program. This was fixed with a patch.
• Game Mod: SORMaker lets you create your own SOR game, using backgrounds from other games and other things. One particular mod to note is about a Gaiden Game portraying Adam as Hero of Another Story in how he's working behind the scenes in BK3 in order to eventually help Axel's team (he's also helped by Max, whose involvement in BK3 was just The Cameo in the good ending). Another mod uses Streets of Rage characters to recreate Final Fight.
• Grenade Spam: Some stages have Fog mooks that run onto the screen in large numbers, hurl explosives, and then run away.
• Heel–Face Turn: Shiva, Elle, Ash and, against all logic, Mr. X himself will beat down the mooks and enforcers of the organization they used to work for or in fact ran in the last one's case when you unlock them. Rudra doesn't count, as explained in that character's unique ending, and considering Victy/Roo has full help from the police force when playing as the character, it's implied that this particular fighter was never villainous to begin with.
• He Knows Too Much: Implied with the SOR1 route encounter against Souther, as the team had come to investigate someone's lead on Mr. X only to stumble upon the clawed maniac brutally murdering them just off-camera.
• Hero of Another Story: A Game Mod revolves around Adam Hunter (also featuring Max who's also absent in BK3).
• Hyperaffixation: The cutscenes don't do much to explain progression between levels besides "There's a door here." or "Our helicopter/bike/yacht will arrive to our destination soon." They do even less for the story anyway.
• Joke Ending: Beating any route on Mania difficulty shows an ending that seems to be as poignant and serious as the rest, until Opa-Opa flies in and makes everyone disappear, which leads to credits where Super-Deformed versions of all playable characters dance to a happy tune.
  Fail: A winner is you.
• Jump Physics: The remake gives you the option of using either the jump physics of SOR1 (both jump path and facing can be changed in mid-jump), SOR2 (cannot change path or facing when in motion), or SOR3 (the path can change but not the facing).
• Kiai: Hakuyo in the remake. Also qualifies as Hell Is That Noise when encountered on the elevator.
• Laser Blade: There's an unlockable cheat in the game that turns swords into light sabers.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When Mr. X is reduced to his last health bar, he takes a noticeably different fighting stance and no longer laughs when he knocks you down. His moveset also drastically increases, adding in more melee attacks with the butt of his tommy gun and even has a Grapple Move if you get too comfortable up close!
• Lethal Joke Character:
  • Remake makes Ash an intentional example, with unusual but strong attacks, a blazing fast run speed, and a universal Smart Bomb that's great in a pinch.
  • Even with his pitifully short reach on his front attacks, Roo is quite fast and has some of the game's strongest throws and blitz attacks. What's more, proper spacing of his back attack can stunlock enemies, and even some bosses, at a a safe distance.
• Lightning Bruiser:
  • Shiva. Not only are his stats significantly higher than any other playable character, but his attacks have a longer range and are delivered faster.
  • Adam Hunter. Not to the extent of Shiva, but his stat totals come out to 2 stars higher than the rest of the main cast, and his standard striking combo sends enemies flying so hard they damage any other enemies they hit. So he hits almost as hard as Max, but moves a lot faster.
• Lonely at the Top: Shiva seems to think so in Ending 1. Unlike everyone else, he sits looking bored the entire time, and doesn't laugh evilly or move at all after the credits roll.
• Lonely Piano Piece/Solemn Ending Theme: Heard during the credits after the two worst endings. Especially poignant for the ending where the heroes' policeman ally is left completely alone.
• Long Song, Short Scene: Version 4 had a remix of "Spin on the Bridge" used in the dance club stage in place of a mix of the original song, which proved popular. When Version 5 came out and they went with a remix of "Dance Club" instead for that same stage, they kept the "Spin on the Bridge" remix... as a song that plays in the twenty second cutscene following the bosses' defeat. ^note It also plays in the results screen after beating the game, but the average player is likely to skip the results anyway.
• Luck-Based Mission: Stage 8 if you beat Robo X. You're on a Timed Mission, 3 minutes to be exact, to either disarm the bomb or ignore it and beat Shiva as quickly as possible before the timer expires. The catch? The rooms that contain the keycard to reach the bottom floor and the control console to stop the bomb are randomized in each playthrough, so it's possible you can wind up finding nothing but trap rooms and get the worst ending for dying in the explosion due to time wasted in getting lost and having to fight mooks every time you leave a room.
• Made of Explodium: An unlockable cheat will cause all enemies to explode violently upon death. They behave just like explosive items, bikes, and barrels, so enemies standing near the soon-to-be-corpse will potentially cause a chain of exploding enemies, while players standing nearby will lose a lot of health, so watch out!
• Man on Fire: Anyone (bar the robots) hit with certain fire attacks. (The fires on the floor, the fire breath attacks of Bongo & Big Ben, Rudra’s police special, and the torches used by the jugglers, but not Axel’s fire punches, the regular police call, grenades, or exploding enemies, bikes, and containers)
• Meteor Move: Rudra's back throw, which consists of kicking her victim straight up into the air, ninja teleporting to catch the him/her, and then slamming them back into the ground using the Izuna Drop.
• Mighty Glacier:
  • Adam is partially this, and partially Lightning Bruiser.
  • Downplayed for Max, where he can compensate his slow walking speed by running and rolling just like everyone else (although his run is about the same speed as Skate's walk).
• Mind Screw: Mr. X is unlockable, and can defeat himself in the SOR1 route to BECOME THE BOSS... wait, what?
• Ms. Fanservice: Rudra could well rival Blaze. She wears a vest that emphasizes her stomach, she's got Navel-Deep Neckline especially in her unique ending, she wears fishnet stockings that help to emphasize her legs, her skirt's short enough that you can get very brief panty shots if she kicks high, and the lower half of her outfit gives a subtle outline of her butt if she BECOMES THE BOSS.
• Multiple Endings: As of Version 5, Streets of Rage Remake features a maximum of eight, depending on which route you took and what final level you played. Three of them are lifted from the first two games (thus, it's possible to BECOME THE BOSS once again). Variants on the Streets of Rage 3 route involves trying to stop bombs from blowing up the city and the building you're in, with Shiva as the final boss. Regardless of whether or not you stop the bomb and defeat Shiva, Mr. X escapes. And one ending requires a no-cheats completion on Mania mode. One hidden character also has an ending made completely for them. Rudra's ending is accessed by beating Mr. X on the final level of the Streets of Rage route or Streets of Rage 2 route by herself on at least the hard difficulty setting. Remember her post boss fight dialogue where she says she's not your enemy? Her reason for fighting shows in her ending, which shows her freeing her little sister that was captured by the syndicate. The post credits scene shows the little girl trying to follow in Rudra's footsteps in being a fighter and struggles to lift a sword.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The game renamed some of Abadede's palette swaps El Gigante and Barbarian after real wrestlers, both of whom he has some resemblance to.
• No Fair Cheating: Using cheats lowers your money points at the end. If you steal from the shop, you're forced to pay for it later. Using either cheats or savestates (even cheats that are purely cosmetic or that make the game harder) also disables the special Mania exclusive ending.
• No Item Use for You: Roo can hold items in his mouth, but still throws guns away automatically.
• No-Sell: Some of 1's version of Hakuyo will, when "knocked down", land on their feet and immediately counter with a flying kick.
• Non-Lethal K.O.: The remake uses this on the boss characters (except the robot types, which explode upon defeat). While standard mooks are implied to be killed by the player (especially when you can cut them in half with a sword, throw a grenade at them, or toss them into a pit or off a moving lift), boss characters are shown in a cutscene to be either out cold or dazed, bloodied, and bruised, no matter what was used to defeat them in the fight previously.
• One-Hit-Point Wonder: The Seeker robots are so fragile that one punch can instantly destroy them. However, they explode upon defeat, so watch out! Luckily, the Seekers can do nothing but jump around.
• Palette Swap:
  • After you've beaten the game at least once, you can choose the color of your player character's outfit at the select screen.
  • The remake hangs a lampshade on Onihime and Yasha being a palette swap of Blaze.
• Promoted to Playable:
  • Remake does Shiva justice as a proper hidden character and even features his SOR2 version separately.
  • Mr. X is now a hidden character. Yes, he has the tommy gun. He's also unable to call for police backup.
• Pyrrhic Victory: If you fight Mr. X's robot duplicate and successfully disabled the bombs, the city is safe, but the real Mr. X is still out there. Likewise, if you escaped without disabling the bombs, Mr. X is still alive and most of the city is destroyed from the explosion.
• Ramming Always Works: In Remake, Zan trades ramming mooks in 3 in favor of a dashing Electric Reach upon gaining two or three stars.
• Refuge in Audacity: Ash himself would count as this, but there are specific moments in Remake that fulfill this trope as well.
  • One: Sliding down a stripper pole then proceeding to dance on it in the Atlas Nightclub.
  • Two: The image of him if HE BECOMES THE BOSS. He sits with his knees spread apart. Remember that he wears panties.
• The Rival: In the remake, dialogue in one path implies that Shiva is this to Axel.
• Screams Like a Little Girl: Ash uses the female death scream.
• Secret A.I. Moves: Averted. The developers put a lot of work in improving Mr. X's Gun Fu and working in additional animations (none of which are displayed during his boss fight) to make him as playable as the initially available characters, all while avoiding making him too gamebreaking. Granted, he can be more powerful than other characters of the cast, but not by much, which keeps playing as him interesting. Played somewhat straight with Rudra, but then again, how would you control her Doppelgänger Attack?
• Shoplift and Die: Very downplayed and a non-lethal variation. There's a shop (staffed by Blaze, of all people) that unlocks after you beat the game, enabling you to buy secret characters, cheats, and extras. Should you access the shop while your computer's clock is between 5 and 7 AM, Blaze will be asleep, and you can attempt to steal an item. The chance of successfully stealing an item is 50/50, and the computer decides this at random. If you fail, Blaze wakes up, screams "THIEF!" in your face, and you get banned from the shop until you beat the game again. If you succeed, however, you can get any one item — even the super-expensive ones like the SOREditor and the infinite lives cheat — for free... and you still end up locked out of the shop. And this time you have to pay Blaze back for the item you stole by beating the game. Did you steal the SORmaker? Have fun playing through the game 10+ times!
• Shmuck Bait: You could steal from the shop when Blaze is sleeping, and the offer for supposedly getting an unlock for free is quite tempting, which is likely the point when you get punished whether you succeed or fail.
• Shoryuken: Adam can use this attack once he get 3 stars.
• Shout-Out: Several. Not only do other Sega games get references, homages, and cameos, but other beat 'em ups and fighting games as well.
• Shown Their Work: The developers put a lot of effort into recreating elements from the series. Not only did the developers include levels that were cut from SOR3 and a few levels exclusive to the Master System/Game Gear versions of the series, they also included sprites of Axel, Blaze, Skate, and Shiva from all their perspective games and choosing a different sprite also changes their fighting style to how they fought in those games. The game options have also lots of details, such as determining what Streets of Rage game you want the combo system to reflect, what game you want your movement and jumping to be based on, how you want your hit boxes, and having the ability to play as SOR2 Blaze with her up kick showing off her panties, which had been censored in the North American version. Attention to detail was heavily used in the remake while still retaining the feel of the series.
• Skippable Boss: As of version 5.1, dodging all of the maintenance beams while climbing to the front of the train car on the alternate SOR 2 route results in the boss of that level, Ash, being hit by a subway train and dying instantly before you fight him, automatically completing the level.
• Slasher Smile: Souther's is more noticeable in the remake.
• Smart Bomb: The remake gives one of these to all but three of its 19 playable characters, though some are special fighting techniques that don't actually involve summoning the police. The three that don't get one are Mr. X, who taunts you for trying to call the police (he is a crime lord, after all) and both the SOR2 and SOR3 versions of Shiva, for whom the "police call" button increases his speed temporarily as of version 5.1.
• Sound Test: Like the original games, you can listen to the game's music in the options menu.
• Spell My Name With An S: Defied for Galsia/Garcia. They are separate mooks in the remake. Galsia act as his pre-3 counterpart while Garcia is the one that performs an elbow drop and serve as his slightly tougher counterpart.
• Splash Damage: Zan's "Energy Ball Toss" blitz weapon attack from SOR3 becomes a weaponless blitz special that explodes when it makes contact an enemy or a wall, damaging anyone caught in said explosion, including the player, if they are too close.
• Status Buff: The last update makes Shiva's initially useless Smart Bomb button double his movement speed for a few seconds.
• Stripperiffic: Zigzagged all over the place with Electra. The game includes the skirt and blazer wearing versions, the teddy and stockings wearing version, the teddy and skirt wearing versions, and the leather uniform versions.
• Third-Person Seductress: Blaze is the one manning the shop where you buy various items. While you're browsing around the shop, she's standing there to the side, dressed in her red bra and nothing else covering her top half, and there's a slight shot of her skirt and stockings below (both mostly covered by the graphic showing your in-game cash), and all the while she's looking right at you with a smile on her face, except for a few moments when she looks to the side while you're selecting certain options. Have a look.◊ One modder managed to change Blaze's appearance v5.2 by changing her default outfit to a two-piece swimsuit.
• Throw-Away Guns: The heroes can pick up guns (imported from Capcom's Cadillacs and Dinosaurs arcade Beat 'em Up) which the heroes throw them in the Mooks faces when out of ammo.
• Tiger Versus Dragon: Played with. Shiva is established as having something of a rivalry with Axel, which didn't exist in the original games (beyond them being on opposing sides, of course). Fittingly, Axel has his Dragon Wing and Dragon Smash special moves, and Shiva has a special move called the Tiger Palm (which he didn't have in the original games).
• Timed Mission: Version 5 included a final escape in one route. After defeating Robo X, escape the building in 3 minutes (timer varying depending on difficulty) or explode with it. If you find the keycard, you battle Shiva as your final obstacle to freedom. The ending you get, however, depends on whether you disarmed the bomb before getting to him or not.
• Top-Heavy Guy: Antonio in this remake is even more bowlegged than usual, which makes his legs look even smaller.
• Trick Boss: Robo X in one route, like in the original games. Only, in this case, the building is rigged to explode after his defeat. With Shiva waiting at the exit.
• Turns Red: Players of Remake who think they're used to dealing with Mr X's old tricks are in for a nasty surprise when he is down to his last lifebar. His stance suddenly changes to holding his tommy gun with only one arm, and he starts using melee moves like the playable characters. He even has a back throw and blitz attacks which, naturally, he can do without restrictions because he's a boss.
• Unique Enemy: Several, including a Jason variant of Jack, a trucker, a sniper, and a few more. Notably, one of the enemies is a blonde haired Galsia in a white shirt and jeans, whose KO cry echoes. Oh and he's named Cody.
• Unlockable Content: Tons, all of which are unlocked and purchased through the shop where extra characters, cheats, the SORMaker, bonus features and more are found.
• Victory Pose: Everyone performs a victory pose at the successful conclusion of whatever mode you're playing.
• Vocal Dissonance: Averted with Roo. From having Skate's voice in 3, to using samples from fellow boxing kangaroo Roger's voice instead.
• Yellow Brick Road: A variation. Version 5 has you begin on one of four starting points, but all routes lead to Mr. X's headquarters… though not to the exact same ending.

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