{"id":21998,"date":"2022-01-31T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=21998"},"modified":"2022-01-15T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T13:41:13","slug":"breakneck-city-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/breakneck-city-ps4-ps5-switch-xbox-one-x-s-pc\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakneck City (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, X\/S, PC)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Breakneck City is a throwback retro styled side scrolling beat \u2018em up with low poly graphics.\u00a0 Play as a guy or a girl in single or two player co-op as you beat down thugs who are trying to shut down your favorite video rental place.\u00a0 Punch and kick your way through city streets, night clubs, factories, and more.\u00a0 It\u2019s available on nearly all current game consoles and PC, but reviewed on PS4 here.<\/p>\n

There are six stages in all, each with a boss.\u00a0 You can punch, kick, and jump.\u00a0 Punching is good for close, quick attacks, but kicking someone will knock them back, handy if you get crowded.\u00a0 You and enemies can also take damage from hitting a wall or falling down an incline, so there is a slight bit of strategy in how you attack.\u00a0 You can pick up weapons like baseball bats, but I found them not as useful since wielding them makes your attacks slower.\u00a0 The game is challenging but at least you get unlimited continues and only get set back a little bit when you lose all your energy.<\/p>\n

But boy this game sure does have some problems!\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what kind of nostalgia they were going with the graphics, but the low poly visuals look WORSE than the PSOne or N64.\u00a0 And the garish colors remind me of those old computer monitors that could only display pink, blue, gray, and white.\u00a0 Music is awful, too, unless you like generic dubstep.\u00a0 Controls are slow and they don\u2019t do a good job telling you how to play.\u00a0 For instance, I kept wishing for a way to dodge, but it turns out you can use the R stick to zip around the screen quickly, which looks ridiculous.\u00a0 I guess if you want to play one of those \u2018so bad it\u2019s good\u2019 kind of games, this would fit the bill. And you only have to play about halfway through the game to get all the trophies!\u00a0 \u00a0But if you want to play a GOOD beat \u2018em up, I\u2019d go with something like Streets of Rage 4<\/strong><\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

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Kid Factor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Breakneck City is rated M for Mature with an ESRB descriptor of Strong Language.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised it didn\u2019t get a descriptor for violence, because you do punch and kick bad guys.\u00a0 But defeated characters just get knocked back and flash and disappear.\u00a0 But the strong language is in the story text only, where they do drop quite a few unnecessary f-bombs.\u00a0 Honestly if they cleaned that up, this would\u2019ve gotten a T for Teen or lower rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breakneck City is a throwback retro styled side scrolling beat \u2018em up with low poly graphics.\u00a0 Play as a guy or a girl in single or two player co-op as you beat down thugs who are trying to shut down your favorite video rental place.\u00a0 Punch and kick your way through city streets, night clubs, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":21981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-game-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21998"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22000,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21998\/revisions\/22000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}