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Thanks to the fact that this game has a ton of characters and is easy to learn how to play make it a very popular game in my household when friends come around. You can also use double team moves and grapple using weapons, do fancy running jumps of walls and perform multiple areal attacks or grapples on your opponents, this game can get quite crazy. While there is no block button the players can evade attacks by pressing the dodge button thus making it imposable for players to ‘turtle’ and abuse the block button. Like Namco’s other games like Tekken and Soul Calibur players can juggle combo their opponents and the game has some incredibly smooth animation, some of the best on the PS2. The game itself is very simple to learn all the controls and techniques to but requires skill in learning when to use said skills in battle. Then when my import machine broke I luckily managed to find this game second hand for £5 here in the UK so I doubt this game will set you back that much if you where to track it down today. Urbain Reign was also another game I first imported, though play-asia before they stopped sending Sony console games to Europe. Not many people have really herd of the game but once I show it to them and we play a few multiplayer fights they really enjoy the game too.
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In terms of modes, there is the main Story Mode, which is split into 100 missions, some really small encounters or one-on-one fights, others quite the long battle against a good chunk of enemies, and then there is a Free mode where you can play any of the missions as any character, or even just fight with up to two, three or four players, and unlock more characters to play as, and a Challenge Mode which is your classic survival or horde mode, where you and an ally (either human or AI) have to survive waves of enemies.Ĭliché-wise the game is lacking, but much like last week’s effort that’s an unfair thing to spin as if it were a “bad thing”, as it’s free from clichés because it does something different.Urban Reign happens to be one of my favourite multiplayer games on the PS2 and I consider it to be an underrated classic. As mentioned there are two Tekken characters in the game as well, Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law, which I guess means this is sort of Final Fight to Tekken’s Street Fighter… or at least it was supposed to be… There are lots of characters to unlock as well, and while I’ll admit they’re on the generic-as-all-hell side of things their movesets are often extremely different. There is one mission set in a biker gang hideout that was my “go-to” level if I just wanted to have some fun because it has loads of opponents to beat and lots of destructible tables and useable pool cues and the like.
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The fun doesn’t stop there either as not only are there weapons to use but the environment is extremely destructible, meaning more often than not you throw your opponent through a nearby table, box or metal bin. You can also dodge, which is you press attack right after a dodge leads to some equally great looking stuff, which combined with everything else leads to some really fun beatdowns of large amounts of thugs, or a really good one-on-one “boss fight”. You can press a button at the right time to counter a move with one of your own, but that can also be countered, leading to some pretty cool looking move exchanges at a high enough level.
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You can still grapple but you can do several moves, including throws, and you can grapple standing, while they’re on the floor, mid-air and while running, giving it an almost pro-wrestling feel (very Def Jam, now I think about it…) but where the engine really shines is the countering. The gameplay is certainly more modernised than anything else I’ve covered in this marathon (even 2020’s Streets of Rage 4, due to its retro aesthetic) It has combos from pressing the same button, of which there are two attack buttons, and it has specials by pressing the two buttons together, though it drains an entirely separate meter rather than your health (filled by attacking, getting hit and dodging), but that’s about where the similarity to traditional controls end. A bust up in a biker’s garage! Look at all that leather and denim…