"Cobras, we kidnapped a chick. You want her back, you know where to go. We'll be waiting....." At least they're honest in letting the heroes know. For a bad gang, they have a way with manners.
Yeah, it's very funny that they're not like, *_"Keep on searching, WE won't tell you where she is. Hahaha!"_* It's more like, *_"Eh, you probably know where we are keeping her hostage. This doesn't seem to be the biggest city, anyway. So, challenge us, or whatever."_*
Starting: Not-Mike Tyson, Not-Hulk Hogan, Not-Jean Claude Van Damme, and Not-Mr. T! Definitely a massive improvement over Crime Fighters in every area. So much fun to play.
Konami sure made some good arcade games... I think Violent Storm was my favourite arcade title they made, but this one was also great (together with many others).
Eh, there are towns like Buttzville, Nothing or Satan's Kingdom in the US, so this is not the worst name for a place I've heard thus far. Guess hate for some places really runs strong.
@@flossbee This is one of the programmers said Blood (former prizefighter, with a passing resemblance to Wesley Snipes), Hawk (former professional wrestler, with a passing resemblance to Hulk Hogan), Boomer (a martial artist, possibly based on Jean-Claude Van Damme), Sledge (a military ex-convict with a passing resemblance to Mr. T)
It must be uncomfortable to fight a thousand bad guys while wearing jeans! Still waiting for a beat em up where the guy is smart enough to wear sweatpants! 😂
I like the little details, such as throwing baddies into the background, breaking mirrors. Got a kick out of the graffiti throughout: "slimeballs rule ok," "no go area for pigs," etc.
This was at the time where konami was trying to make a beat 'em up to compete with the likes of battle toads arcade and captain commando.. both still kinda popular (I think) and boy if it had a console release! It would've made a lot of money! But alas alack
If I knew it existed, this would have been my number one, we never really got the arcade cabinets here in the UK, we had plenty but missed out on a lot of what the US or Japanese market had
It's all coming back to me now, amount of times playing this at the arcades the sound effects were awesome preferred it to Final Fight. In my top 5 beaten up platform.
I've always loved how many unique setpieces and fun details Konami puts in their beatemups. It really helps the player stay engaged all the way through. A shame they haven't rereleased many of their best ones. Guessing you're gonna be playing Violent Storm sometime in the future too?
My favorite beat em up from the arcade will always be Cadillacs and dinosaurs. In our country that game was so popular. Still wish Capcom would do something new with it
@@masterlee1988 Crime Fighters did get an Arcade Archives release in March (17th in Japan and the 18th worldwide). Vendetta is now available on PS4 and Nintendo Switch as of July 21st which is today.
@@SolCresta3405 yes, but even if you wanted to, you cant hit kruel kurt more than two or three times in a row because he counters, while Faust can be comboed easily
I don't know if anyone else mentioned it in the comments, but in the japanese version, there are some creepy ass enemies that kinda look like Leatherman from Village People. They try to get near you and then dry-hump you, making sex noises all the while. For very obvious reasons, they don't appear in the international releases of this game. Also in the japanese version, the dog (or dogs) at the beginning of the final stage, has a rather different behavior. Instead of attacking you, it... um... pretty much does the same thing as the Village People enemies.
The version we got in the arcades here in Italy had the leather guys and the pervy dogs, LOL!!! The funniest part is when you get hit and fall down the leather guys get down and dry hump you while you're on the ground unconscious... :-D
There was a 2D arcade beat em up almost exactly like Vigilante where the protagonist was a female and in the final stage the boss was in a similar sort of position except that it can last several seconds. People watching that would say it's in it's in. I can not remember the name but I wanted to find out whether it was a game feature or a bug
Nice to see you get to this game just like you said you would do 👍 I enjoyed this play thru with you doing the game proud in showing pretty much all the moves, weapons & destructible stuff possible. This along with Cadillacs & Dinosaurs r my 2 favourite side scrolling brawlers. Violent storm on the way to complete the Konami trilogy? 😆
I guess they took the safe road, knowing WWF had a pretty effective team of lawyers at the time. Honestly, the Hogan lookalike probably wouldn't have made it to consoles, Hulk most probably wouldn't have been cool with that, brother! 😂
Whilst the game was known as Crime Fighters 2 in Japan, Vendetta was renamed for the western and North America release and marketed as a completely new title, which seems incredibly strange given the success of the first game and the obvious likeness to the predecessor. At first, looks this seems like just another generic scrolling beat 'em up trying to cash in on the like of Technos Japan's Double Dragon and Capcom's Final Fight, but there are actually a few interesting features worth mentioning. Firstly you can play with up to 4 players at once, something Konami brought over from their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Simpsons games. Secondly the 4 controllable characters Blood, Hawk, Boomer, and Sledge, are actually based on real life action heroes - namely Mr. T, Hulk Hogan, Jean Claude Van Damme, and Wesley Snipes.
You are playing as Jean Claude van Damme from the street fighter movie and wrecked everyone and everything. I felt bad for the enemies lol it wasn’t even a fight. Just brutal. We need a kill counter bc the murder charges for this rampage would be legendary.
I can see why this didn't got a console port. It looked more violent than your average beat 'em up. A "make Poison a guy" Nintendo would never greenlight it, and Konami didn't made Genesis games yet.
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Konami's finest beat 'em up, and it's so wonderfully raw ^^ I dare to say it's better than Violent Storm cause it's really dirty. Played it with my buddies, we came to ask the question who actually are the bad guys after we stomped a couple of people to death :D
Only way you regained health in Crime Fighters was by beating each stage (in the 4 player variants, the life regain payout became bigger with each stage being passed)
30 seconds in and I was like "Oh, I don't remember getting to play as a girl in a lot of these old beat'em ups." And then by 40 seconds I was more like "Ohh, that tracks."
I don't remember this Arcade Beat Em Up from Konami , I remember all the other ones from Konami like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMMT IV : Turtles In Time (My Favorite from Konami)
Holy shit this looks like a brutal game. Better version of final fight imo! Least likeable level would be the boss rush level. For the insane level of violence you would kind of guess every boss would be terminated at the end...
I don't understand what kind of shoes Boomer is supposed to be wearing. Blood has black chucks, and Hawk and Sledge seem to be wearing workboots. But is Boomer supposed to be barefooted, or is he wearing slides with yellow socks or something?
SNESDrunk looked at this not too long ago. I personally never even heard of the game or saw it in the wild. Looks pretty standard/generic beatem up stuff, even for Konami standards. Doesn't look bad by all means though
I just realized that konami was so lazy they kept the same punching and kicking sound effects from crime fighters in here. They went through the trouble of making a sequel yet left in the same sound effects.
