The Asskickers (PC, Mac)

**Yoshi** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun

The PC: home of shooting men, stabbing men and making men build things, but very rarely about punching men. The early-90s flood of side-scrolling man-thumpers pretty much passed the PC by, probably because we are too busy trying to find where we’d left our Monkey Island code wheels and desperately blowing dust off broken floppy disks in the hopeless hope they’d magically start working again. The Asskickers has, I must confess, a name that makes me wince (curse my terribly British language sensibilities), but I kinda like the high-res, hand-drawn and oh-so-very-French graphics.

Rather tragically, there is no demo as yet – which is exactly the kind of thing an unheard-of indie curio really needs if it wants a fire lit under it. So all I can do for now is point you at the video of this Parisian Streets of Rage. I’ve played a bit of it, and bar its intro dialogue wibbling on for far too long it seems like a cheery mix of thoroughly retro punchosity with distinctively Gallic and tongue-in-cheek aesthetic values.

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**YellerDog** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:44 PM

This looks like ass. I was hoping it would be a Renegade style game, I just wasn't expecting it to look worse than Renegade.

**Yoshi** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:46 PM

I thought it was hilarious. I like the scooter assholes with the sweaters tied around their necks.

**MechDeus** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:47 PM

This costs money?

**bVork** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:49 PM

This is boring French beat em up.

This is superior French beat em up:

**Yoshi** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:52 PM

I was with them at "Paris has fallen." When it went to "it's time to fight..." it became less realistic than the gameplay.

**Chux** · 05 Jul 2011, 01:53 PM

More games should be made with flash, because it obviously looks good, oh wait.

They want $14.99 for that turd? I think there are better games on Newgrounds for free.