The Combatribes is a 1990 beat 'em-up game released for the arcades by Technos Japan Corp (the developers of Renegade and Double Dragon). A home version for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System was also released in 1992. The game centers around three vigilantes (identified as cyborgs in the SNES port) who must fight against numerous street gangs in futuristic New York City. The SNES version was released for the Wii Virtual Console in North America on November 30, 2009. The game has been considered by some to be an spiritual successor of the Double Dragon series.
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You feel like your are playing a beat em up boss when you play this game. Knocking guys around and giant swinging a whole group of thugs. That is until the boss fights put you in your place. You might find something here if your are a hardcore beat em up fan otherwise you can do way better.
A colorful, but generic brawler accidentally featuring Guile from Street Fighter.
What if a belt scroller didn’t scroll? Big Kunio Energy (BKE) as your lil plastic muscle man swings blokes around by the ankles.
- Normal level
Man you can lay an ass whipping in this game like the genre has never seen up to this point. Just trucking dudes, swinging them by the ankles, tossing them around like rag dolls. You roll up on a biker gang ready to brawl and the first thing you do is pick up a parked motorcycle and throw it through the whole line of them. Hell yes. This should be where we're starting from in terms of brawlers. This should be the floor.
I like the look a lot - it's primitive in spots but the bold colors and dark outlines appeal to me. Also some of the characters are really fun. There's an excellent cyborg solider and one hell of a final boss fake-out. They end up overreaching a lot when it comes to how some of the fighting against the more unorthodox enemies works, but it's still fun if you have unlimited quarters. I just want to see colorful characters get wrecked. That's all I'm looking for with these games.
I can't decide whether I would have preferred this be a traditional brawler where you actually move through a level instead of the sort of arena-based RENEGADE spiritual sequel that it is. Maybe this is better - less generic. Either way, I'm glad I'm finally into the '90s with this project. Ready for these to start getting good. Or if not good, at least interesting. Or if not interesting, at least weird.
Also: 'Combatribes' is a really funny way to say 'gangs'.
I like the look a lot - it's primitive in spots but the bold colors and dark outlines appeal to me. Also some of the characters are really fun. There's an excellent cyborg solider and one hell of a final boss fake-out. They end up overreaching a lot when it comes to how some of the fighting against the more unorthodox enemies works, but it's still fun if you have unlimited quarters. I just want to see colorful characters get wrecked. That's all I'm looking for with these games.
I can't decide whether I would have preferred this be a traditional brawler where you actually move through a level instead of the sort of arena-based RENEGADE spiritual sequel that it is. Maybe this is better - less generic. Either way, I'm glad I'm finally into the '90s with this project. Ready for these to start getting good. Or if not good, at least interesting. Or if not interesting, at least weird.
Also: 'Combatribes' is a really funny way to say 'gangs'.
gotta admit, this was a bit of a slog to get through lmao. absolutely ridiculous level of difficulty with mechanics that do little to nothing to combat that difficulty. very obvious that the genre was still in its infancy.