From: weaponx013@yahoo.com   
      
   Robert P Holley wrote:   
   > Scott H wrote:   
   >> Robert P Holley wrote:   
   >>> Scott H wrote:   
   >>>> Kendrick Kerwin Chua wrote:   
   >>>>> Starting a new thread, for what I hope are constructive reasons...   
   >>>>      Thank you for taking the time to post this.  Hearing that it has   
   >>>> anything in common with Spikeout Battlestreet has my hopes kindling.   
   >>> You don't mean the Xbox game called Spikeout Battle Street, do you?   
   >>>   
   >> Yup.  I love this game, it's the best 3D beat-em up yet, in regard to   
   >> replicating the frenetic action of the SoR games in 3D.  The only thing   
   >> that would be better would be an entire game of Shenmue's 70 man battle,   
   >> with a few tweaks here and there of course.   
   >   
   > I can't speak for the arcade version, but the Xbox version was   
   > downright horrible.  It even has a 54% rating at GR.  Just some   
   > friendly advice: If you broke down and bought a PS2 you wouldn't have   
   > to deal with bad games like this. :)   
   >   
      
         I can understand giving the game a score in the 60s, if and only   
   if that score meant that the game was slightly above average.  But a 54%   
   as typically viewed as a "bad" game is simply maligning a good game for   
   no real reason.  Spikeout Battlestreet is fast and challenging, and has   
   a variety of moves and throws at least equal to the Streets of Rage   
   games, but this is in 3D.  Sure, the game is kind of easy on Live, but   
   playing through it in single player mode is a real challenge to the   
   players dexterity and skill.  I can't think of a single flaw in the   
   gameplay.  The only way to claim Battlestreet is inferior is to claim   
   that cinematics are now more important than gameplay because it is only   
   in the "story" that the game comes up short, relatively speaking.  I'd   
   take Battlestreets fighting engine over the vast majority of Adventure   
   titles with group fighting engines any day.  I would place the engine   
   above stuff like Bloodrayne, Hunter the Reckoning and Dynasty Warriors   
   (yes), and below Shenmue 1+2 only.  The Devil May Cry games have a   
   different focus, but the engine there is more concise that   
   Battlestreet's is.  What causes you to claim the game is so bad as to be   
   in the bottom 2%?   
      
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   Scott   
      
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