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Streets of Rage 4 simultaneously honors fans of the first three series entries and showcases the future of the beat ’em up franchise.
Returning characters from the original games make their return as hardened veterans alongside brand new heroes. In a cool nod to past iterations within the Streets of Rage franchise, retro sprites for several old characters have been included in the game and can be used across the game’s many modes. In order to unlock all those throwback 16-bit skins, you’ll need to hit certain lifetime point totals. By playing through various modes, you can fill up the lifetime points meter. You can actually fill it up even faster by earning bonus points after completing certain tasks. Try to refrain from using stage assists so you can earn the maximum amount of stage completion points. As for the bonus tasks you need to keep in mind, they include:
• beating a stage with a character you haven’t used before for the first time
• completing a stage for the first time with a second player
• getting a high letter ranking after beating a stage – getting high rankings depends on how much time, character HP and stars you have left after completing a stage playthrough. By the way, the health and star bonus are only tallied up in Story Mode and Stage Select
• completing a stage on a higher difficulty level
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With all that in mind, refer to the list below to see how many lifetime points you need in order to add each Streets of Rage 4 character to your playable roster (one character can be obtained by simply beating a specific stage, too):
• Adam Hunter – Complete Stage 4 in Story Mode
• SOR1 Axel Stone – Reach or exceed the 200,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR1 Adam Hunter – Reach or exceed the 250,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR1 Blaze Fielding – Reach or exceed the 310,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR2 Max Thunder – Reach or exceed the 390,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR2 Axel Stone – Reach or exceed the 480,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR2 Blaze Fielding – Reach or exceed the 570,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR2 Skate Hunter – Reach or exceed the 650,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR3 Axel Stone – Reach or exceed the 730,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR3 Blaze Fielding – Reach or exceed the 840,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR3 Skate Hunter – Reach or exceed the 940,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR3 Dr. Gilbert Zan – Reach or exceed the 1,050,000 lifetime point score total
• SOR3 Shiva – Reach or exceed the 1,150,000 lifetime point score total