Streets of Rage 2

Streets of Rage 2
North American box art
Developer(s)Sega[a]
Publisher(s)Sega
Designer(s)Cadmix (main planner)
Kataru Uchimura (system)
Ayano Koshiro (main designer, planner)
Mikito Ichikawa (planner)
Programmer(s)Akitoshi Kawano
Artist(s)Ayano Koshiro
Composer(s)Yuzo Koshiro
Motohiro Kawashima
SeriesStreets of Rage
Platform(s)Genesis/Mega Drive, Arcade, Game Gear, Master System, 3DS
ReleaseMega Drive/Genesis
  • NA: December 15, 1992
  • JP: January 14, 1993
  • EU: January 14, 1993
Game Gear
Master System
3DS
  • JP: April 29, 2015
  • WW: July 23, 2015
Genre(s)Beat 'em up
Mode(s)Single-player, two-player

Streets of Rage 2,[b] known as Bare Knuckle II in Japan,[c] is a 1992 beat 'em up game developed and published by Sega for the Genesis/Mega Drive. A sequel to Streets of Rage (1991), the characters Axel Stone and Blaze Fielding return while the game also introduces two new characters: Max Thunder, and Eddie "Skate" Hunter[d], the younger brother of Adam Hunter from the first game.

Streets of Rage 2 was developed by an ad hoc team of several companies: Sega, Ancient, Shout! Design Works, MNM Software, and H.I.C.[5] Ancient's Ayano Koshiro was the lead graphic designer and one of the game design planners, while her brother Yuzo Koshiro composed the music. The game was programmed by the same team as the original.

Upon release, Streets of Rage 2 received critical acclaim and topped sales charts for months. The game is commonly regarded as the best entry in the series, the best beat 'em up game for the Sega Genesis, one of the best beat 'em up and Sega Genesis games in general, and is considered one of the greatest video games of all time; its soundtrack too has also been considered one of the greatest of all time. Suceeded by Streets of Rage 3 (1994), Streets of Rage 2 has since been re-released on other platforms, and an expanded version named 3D Streets of Rage 2 (2015) was released for Nintendo 3DS.

  1. ^ "Streets of Rage 2". Sega Retro. 27 May 2022.
  2. ^ "August Releases". Sega Power. No. 45. August 1993. p. 13.
  3. ^ "Software List (Released by Sega)". セガ 製品情報サイト (in Japanese). Sega. Retrieved May 15, 2023.
  4. ^ "Prodates" (PDF). Sega Pro. Paragon Publishing. April 1994. p. 10. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Streets of Rage 2 (1993) Genesis credits". MobyGames. Blue Flame Labs. Retrieved 28 June 2017.


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