River City Ransom
River City Ransom offers the combination of Open World, Action Role-playing, and Beat ‘em up elements developed by Technos Japan and published by Arc System Works. Both modes such as Multiplayer and Single-player are available to select and play. The game is the 3rd installment in the series of Kunio-Kun, released for consoles. Like the previous games, this title underwent several modifications in its story and graphics during it localization to make the game more portable. The storyline of the game revolves around high school students named Ryan and Alex, as they cross River City in order to save River City High and the girlfriend of Ryan named Cyndi from the clutches of a villain known as Stick. During the journey, they fight against gangs of students and several bosses. The premise of the game is Beat ‘em up, and it is mixed with role-playing action elements. It offers the non-linear gameplay, enabling the player to navigate an open world, in a sandbox manner. The fighting style of the game is similar to Double Dragon video game, in that the player moves freely across the screen while hitting the button to punch, jump, or kick.
#1 Retro City Rampage
Retro City Rampage deals with Action-Adventure, and Open World gameplay elements developed and published by Vblank Entertainment. The game serves as the parody of retro video games and 80s and 90s pop culture, as well as offering the similar gameplay to Grand Theft Auto. It takes place in the city of Theftropolis in 1985 and the player steps into the role of the protagonist, a thug, who is hired as a henchman of a huge crime syndicated controlled by Jester. After three years, during the bank heist which is gone wrong, the player runs into the time travelling telephone booth, which he then steals from its boss. As the story of the game proceeds, the telephone booth flings the player forward an indeterminate set of time to the year 20XX. Upon reaching, the telephone both breaks down and a man appears named Doc Choc in his own time travelling vehicle and saves the player. Now, the player has to gather the rare parts required to repair the telephone time booth with Doc Choc, while discovering several 80s video games.