Final Fight: Streetwise

AceGamez

Final Fight was a classic and Streetwise is a long way from some of the crummy remakes that seem to be springing out lately, so if you're the type to go into everything fists flying, then Travers is the perfect character for you.

Official Xbox Magazine UK

An idiotic, stupidly playable romp from beginning to end, with such baffling diversions you can't help but love it. [April 2006, p.72]

Electronic Gaming Monthly

The technical issues and unambitious design come with a chaser of charming silliness. [Apr 2006, p.97]

1UP

Unfortunately, the end result is a little more Rambo, a lot less Rocky. It's going to take a rethinking to pull the 3D brawler out of its "me too" phase, and Streetwise certainly isn't helping.

Pelit (Finland)

A sub-par group-beat 'em up. Mindless button-bashing and dull surroundings are the biggest of its many problems. [Apr 2006]

GameZone

Final Fight: Streetwise is mediocre, and that’s it. The mini games aren’t inspired and as simple as they get, the fighting system is fun but gets old, and the story is boring.

Kombo

It is not as good as The Warriors, but if you can look past the SERIOUS glitches, its a fun, but short game.

Total Video Games

You almost have to ask whether Capcom closed Studio 8 out of sheer embarrassment.

eToychest

Make no mistake, Final Fight: Streetwise manages to be a somewhat-competent brawler, but everything Final Fight made great is conspicuously absent in Streetwise.

TeamXbox

The game itself isn’t bad in structure and gameplay, but the camera system pretty much dashes all of Final Fight Streetwise’s hopes of being a decent title.

GameShark

A slightly below average game with some okay fighting action, a nice arcade mode if you're playing co-op and some adult situations that sometimes cross the line into the land of overkill.

Cheat Code Central

If there's any good reason to purchase, rent or even borrow this game, I haven't found it.

Play Magazine

Exasperating mini-games; bad AI, camera jams, and a slap in the face story to any fan...This is not good...no--this is really not good. [Apr 2006, p.63]

Game Informer

Outside of the occasional thrill of blowing some fool away with a shotgun or breaking a baseball bat over someone's head, there are no redeeming qualities to Final Fight: Streetwise. [Mar 2006, p.100]

games(TM)

Erase those memories of halcyon days spent nurturing your arthritis with the original coin-op, because Streetwise does it no kind of justice. [May 2006, p.124]

G4 TV

The camera is even worse than in the main mode -- odd, when it could've just taken a zoomed-in version of the isometric view that games like Baldur's Gate have used for eons.

DarkStation

Those hoping for a taste of the old good times best look elsewhere, as the game ruins the arcade classic with terrible camera and barebones-simple gameplay.

Official Xbox Magazine

There's a decent--heck, maybe even somewhat fun--fighting engine burried somewhere beneath the GTA-clone templated debris, but it never has the chance, or find the energy, to rise above the ashes. [May 2006, p.74]

Digital Entertainment News

Gamers would do well to let the past die and move on.

IGN

The fighting system itself is has a few interesting features, but almost everything else about the game will either frustrate or annoy. The camera, the enemy A.I., almost every aspect of the graphics, the sound effects and the required mini-games are all decidedly sub-par

GameSpot

Final Fight: Streetwise doesn't look good, doesn't play well, and it can't even get its unlockable bonus--the original arcade game--right.

The Onion (A.V. Club)

Only players absolutely obsessed with the continuing story of street-fighter-with-a-heart-of-gold Cody and bare-knuckled mayor Mike Haggar need bother checking in.

Eurogamer

Just consider the gorgeous and stunning packages of Resident Evil, Maximo, Devil May Cry or Killer 7. How are we supposed to accept this unpleasant lump of gristle in comparison?

GameSpy

While Final Fight: Streetwise isn't broken to the point of being completely unplayable, it is absolutely not worth your time.

Games Radar

One more thing: the swearing. Normally we don't mind, but the script for Streetwise sounds like it was written by a grade-schooler who'd just discovered cursing. Foul language is overused to the point where the effect isn't gritty at all. In fact, it's just laughable.

Detroit Free Press

With this release, the "Final Fight" series has thrown in the towel.

Pro-G

It deserves every harsh word written about it. It's the worst kind of cynical cash in and not only damages the legacy of Final Fight, but damages Capcom's reputation as a forward thinking games publisher.

GamerFeed

Trying to find enjoyment out of Final Fight: Streetwise is kind of like trying to find a minty Tic-Tac in a dirty ashtray. All you'll find is gritty, unenjoyable substance that unfairly buries a classic gaming franchise.

Game Revolution

Instantly forgettable and certainly regrettable, this fighter is preposterously short on both brains and brawn. Here's to hoping that Streetwise listens to its title and is indeed the final Final Fight.