Strangers, The

ztronzo 2019-10-31
(8/10)
Great music! Nice animations!
This game can be played with 6 players simultaneous!!!
2 players in story mode.

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ScartDeluxe 2016-03-19
(1/10)
What a shattering disappointment. The music and art style exhibited on the title screen are very good and got me very excited. Now, I am a big fan of Streets of Rage 2 and before that my poor old dad put a lot of his change into the Double Dragon, Final Fight and Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles arcade machines, but to mention a few on my behalf, giving me a great time and high expectations when it came to fighting games. Unfortunately, this is less Streets of Rage and more Streets of Sage. Whatever that means. I suppose I could be trying to say that this is more like herbal medicine in the way that it's crap and doesn't do what it's supposed to do, but if I'm honest I was stuck for something smart to say that rhymed with Streets of Rage, and so I wrote whatever it was that I wrote. I have forgotten already (chortle). God I love Streets of Rage, and this definitely isn't Streets of Rage. The music and graphics are quite good, but aren't nearly good enough to make up for the slow unresponsive and very not fun gameplay. It's worth loading up to listen to the music and to see how bad the game is, but do make sure there's no one else in the house when you do. Last thing you want is more games like this turning up under the christmas tree! Don't play it with strangers either, because they won't like it and you won't get any sweets. Not that you should accept sweets from strangers anyway. Don't accept Strangers from strangers either. It's a really terrible game.
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mailman 2015-09-13
(8/10)
Two or three years earlier it could have been quite successful title posing as a remake of "Renegade". Very challenging, requires a lot of practice but possible to master after hours of training. Nice GFX and SFX - very polished and authors paid a lot of attention to details which should be set as another praise of this game. Multiplayer mode is a really nice touch.
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Colonel Kurtz 2012-03-09
(5/10)
Ten years since Renegade and Double Dragon came out, and still Amiga game designers had learned nothing about how a good brawler should play like.

The Strangers is so unbalanced with regard to the damage done by hits (or their "knockout factor", in the case of this game) that the only possible winning strategy is an utterly tedious "last of the Horatii" scheme: run away, turn and hit the baddie that comes closest; if time doesn't run out first. I mean, come on: you hit a regular guy in the face with a Chuck Norris trademark roundhouse, he doesn't even bend and instantly responds with a blow that has you immediately immobilized or knocked down!

Artistically I don't agree with every choice they made: putting (ugly) drawn graphics on rendered backgrounds didn't work too well; there was a very nice pre-rendered car chase introductory animation, but this is not Chase HQ! The read-aloud manual, on the other hand, was such a dumb useless idea that I loved it!
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Hollywood_Haggar 2009-12-03
(7/10)
In this game, Amiga users were given what they should have taken from "Renegade"

The gameplay is clearly based on the original "Renegade" talking about its arcade and 8 bit versions of course.

Good game. Plan a strategy to beat everybody and don´t go beating around with nosense cos you´ll be kissing the floor once and once again with no success.

Renegade should have been something like this in terms of playability, but wasn´t. Fortunately you can feel that on this one even improved.

Give it a try!!
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elend 2007-04-05
Cool game, I really enjoyed playing it.
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superturbo 2006-08-11
(8/10)
Fizza: as far as I remember Vulcan was also selling an adapter allowing to connect two more joysticks when this game was released.

Very funny when playing two or three players at the same time (two joys, one keyboard).
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Fizza 2006-02-12
(8/10)
As noted below, this would have been a great game if released five years earlier when the chances of getting four people to play on an Amiga were better than nil, as this is obviously the proper way to play it.
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ReTroViRuS 2006-01-10
(4/10)
This was an interesting twist on the genre, but nearly impossible to beat. I wish Ablaze would have spent more time on playtesting and balancing the game. The Strangers could have been really great had they done that.
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Karpow 2006-01-03
(7/10)
This would be great fun with 4 players.
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