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'.