God please smite the developers at Secret Level…..
The game camera by far is the worst thing about this game. In widescreen mode its position is so bad that you can never ever properly see what is on the ground. Picking up cash, weapons, and kicking thugs will drive you insane. Don’t even try to use the lock-on button to home in on enemies. It is plain worthless. The camera does not even try to follow when walking nor when you're locked-on to an adversary. The graphic presentation in this game is so unbelievably bad! As a current generation 3-D game the polygon count is too low. And, the textures look outdated as hell. The music is a$$ and the dialog is even worse. The story is very dumb and the characters are very forgettable.
Then there's the mini-games. Stomping roaches and slamming heads in doors I guess is supposed to be “streety” but why is the execution of these mini-games sluggish and simple minded like an old a$$ Atari game?
Its only somewhat good point is the mediocre combat. The combat in Final Fight Streetwise looks slightly cool but is spoiled by the rotten camera and kinda cheap enemies.
Why in the hell did Capcom let Secret Level make this piece of crap? I know the Japanese company does not understand the GTA phenomenon but hell, even a first grader can out program the idiots at Second Level. Where did Secret Level programmers get their gaming degrees? In a garbage can? I love Capcom and I think they and Konami are the greatest game companies in existence but if Capcom keeps this up we are all doomed. I now hope you can understand the reason why I wanted to bawl like a baby when I played this turd of a game. Here the skinny:
The bad: Crappy graphics, stupid story, stupid characters, horrible camera, poor music, bad voice acting, dumb dialog and stupid mini-games.
The good: The combat looks kind of cool...........That's it. Nothing else.
Neutral: I just could not stomach playing this game all the way through. Please forgive me.
The Final Verdict: This game just plain sucked! The only reason it made into my console was because of it predecessors. Only play this game if you want to see what a 3-D beat 'em-up is NOT supposed to be like!