Game news Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bayonetta 3 … 10 promising Beat’em-Ups to follow
The critical and commercial success of Streets of Rage 4 has fueled a long-gone genre: the beat’em up. Let’s use this great momentum to have a preview of the next hits. So who will be the successors to Lizardcube’s work?
Asterix & Obelix: Beat Them All!
We’re starting this list of promising beat’em ups by celebrating the launch of Asterix & Obelix: Baffez-les Tous !. Available for a few hours now, The title of Microids is largely inspired by the example that Lizardcube took with Streets of Rage 4 to offer us a game at the height of the two icons of the comic book world. In this adventure, Asterix and Obelix reunite to drive back the Roman forces or the many vicious pirates while they enjoy hand-drawn drawings. Of course, everything can be played in pairs on the same screen. The first personifies Asterix and the second goes forward next to Obelix.
- Release date: December 2, 2021
- Available on Pc PS4 ONE Switching
Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch
Just like Asterix & Obelix: hit them all! Jay and Silent Bob, two heroes of the cinema world that we could see employee and The glands, took inspiration from Streets of Rage 4 to create Jay and Silent Bob: Chronic Blunt Punch.
- Release date: unknown
- Available on Pc
Fading afternoon
After The friends of Ringo Ishikawa, the Russian developer will be back in 2022 with Fading Afternoon on PC (via Steam) and Nintendo Switch. This new production, accompanied by Seiji Maruyama, a younger yakuza who has just been released from prison, takes us straight to the country of Japan. This game is all about the action, it offers players great choreography, but that’s not all. Like its predecessor, the title will have an open world that can be explored at will and all in pixels, and lots of mini-games.
- Release date: 2022
- Available on Pc Switching
Babylon’s fall
Change of registers in this fourth production … In contrast to earlier 2D creations, we are tackling a three-dimensional beat’em up here: Babylon’s case. This game, signed by PlatinumGames (Bayonetta, Vanquish), is a service game in which four players team up to clean a gigantic building
- Release date: unknown
- Available on Pc PS4 PS5
SIFU
If you like choreography and kung fu, then next year you need to turn to SIFU. more precisely from February 8th, the start date of the game on PC, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5. In this three-dimensional creation, which is heavily inspired by the world of the seventh art, you play a young apprentice who takes revenge with fists and feet a mysterious group that murdered his family. But be careful, your hero ages every time he passes from life to death. We must therefore not hesitate to repel blows and counter-attacks in order not to die of old age.
- Release date: February 8, 2022
- Available on Pc PS4 PS5
Midnight Fight Express
For this sixth beat’em up we focus this time on Midnight Fight Express. This gigantic homage to the John Wick saga invites you to stroll through abandoned factories, restaurants or on the subway to battle your way through a multitude of adversaries … Of course, to achieve such a feat, you need to play with your fists or interact with the elements of the decor. The small peculiarity of this top view game is that all choreographies were captured by actors in order to offer the players a spectacle at all times. Everything will be on PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X | S and Nintendo Switch expected.
- Release date: 2022
- Available on Pc PS4 ONE Xbox series Switching
Jitsu squad
If you like colorful and crazy experiences, Jitsu Squad is for you. The two-dimensional action game, playable for up to four players on the same screen, guides you alongside anthropomorphic animals (rabbits, pandas, cats …) to comply with the law. These different characters obviously have unique and devastating abilities. Note that fans of the genre will be delighted to hear that Tanuki Creative Studio’s game is inspired by the greatest, starting with Streets of Rage and Final Fight, but also Guilty Gear for the visual part.
- Release date: 2022
- Available on Pc PS4 ONE Switching
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge
It’s impossible to talk about the upcoming beat’em-ups without spending a few moments on the next marvel from Dotemu (the editor of Streets of Rage 4), namely Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge. This all-pixel proposal is inspired by the Ninja Turtles games released on NES, SNES and MegaDrive and again invites us to fight alongside the mutated turtles against the great shredder. (Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo, Raphaël), but also April O’Neil … In fact, the famous journalist will also be playable. Good news, this adventure can be done with three of your friends on the same screen from start to finish.
- Release date: 2022
- Available on Pc Switching
Dicey Krime: Time Traveler
In October 2022, players can experience another hand-drawn 2D beat’em up: Dicey Krime: Traveler of Time. In this adventure, you play as Dicey or one of his vigilantes (Kane Beast and Hina) to undermine the many bandits and other thugs that protect the streets. Little originality, this proposal takes us on a journey through the centuries to discover ancient civilizations or even cyberpunks worlds. In other words, the gaming experience, which can be played both locally and online, is already very diverse.
- Release date: October 2022
- Available on Pc
Bayonetta 3
We’re ending this list of upcoming beat’em ups with an exclusive Nintendo Switch. Yes, we are referring to Bayonetta 3. Once again developed by PlatinumGames, This third opus gives you the chance to play as the coolest and most popular witch in the video game world to let the powder and blades speak in confrontations that never cease to be in full view; The title has great choreography and several special effects. However, we still have to be patient. So far we don’t have a specific release date, just a vague 2022.
- Release date: 2022
- Available on Switching
Through Jerome Joffard, Journalist igamesnews.com
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