This town IS big enough for the both of us, actually.

Scrolling fighting games on Switch are clearly like buses; you wait years for a decent one to arrive and two come along at once. We've recently been blessed with the long-awaited Streets of Rage 4, an officially-sanctioned sequel created by DotEmu, Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games, and just a handful of weeks later we have The TakeOver, which – while not officially part of the Streets of Rage universe – is about as close to the real thing as you can get. What's refreshing is that these two games offer a slightly different approach which makes them both worth a look.

The TakeOver is developed by Pelikan13, the same studio which attempted to resurrect Sega-style arcade racing with '90s Super GT – a game which, at the time of writing, is stuck in development hell at new owner Nicalis. That game was shaping up to be something quite special and was a real testament to the talents of Pelikan13 founder Antonis Pelekanos. The TakeOver is best described as the same kind of deal, but with the aforementioned Streets of Rage as the source of inspiration; Pelekanos has taken everything we know and love about the classic series and given it a current-gen lick of paint while introducing some fresh ideas of his own.

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