Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle
By David Chapman,
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Collection of arcade classics packs a punch.
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What’s It About?
It's time for an old-school arcade throw down with CAPCOM BEAT 'EM UP BUNDLE, a collection of seven classic "beat 'em up" games from the past, available for download on the Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. The games included in this collection are Final Fight, Captain Commando, The King of Dragons, Knights of the Round, and Warriors of Fate, with the console debuts of Armored Warriors and Battle Circuit rounding things out. Players can go solo through these action-packed adventures, or team up with others in both couch co-op and online play. Players can also tweak the gameplay with features like extra lives and adjustable difficulty; they can even choose between original English or Japanese versions of each game.
Is It Any Good?
In this era of home consoles, massive multiplayer titles, and epic adventures, it's easy to forget the days of hitting the local arcade, quarters in hand, for good old-fashioned button-mashing fun. Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle hearkens back to those days with some reflex-testing classic brawlers. While it's true that all these games are more than two decades old and can't help but show a bit of their age when compared to more modern games, the gameplay holds up surprisingly well even after all these years.
One of the big draws of this kind of gaming was getting together with friends and teaming up to take on the bad guys in co-op play. Capcom recognized this and made sure to bring that to home consoles by giving each game support for drop-in local and online multiplayer play. It's just a lot of fun to relive the excitement of working as a tag team to beat the snot out of those pesky street gangs, cyborg crooks, medieval minions, and other assorted baddies. And being able to tweak things like extra lives and difficulty helps to keep things challenging without ever getting overly frustrating. Each of the seven games has its own little quirks and personality, meaning that despite similar gameplay, they never feel like you're just playing the same thing over and over. And for the price, there's plenty of content to keep players' interest while saving those quarters.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about violence in video games. Is the violence in the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle affected by the constant fighting in the game? Would the impact be intensified if the graphics looked more realistic instead of pixelated?
How have games changed since the days of crowding around a cabinet at the local arcade?
Game Details
- Platforms: Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
- Pricing structure: Paid
- Available online?: Available online
- Publisher: Capcom
- Release date: September 18, 2018
- Genre: Arcade
- Topics: Magic and Fantasy, Superheroes, Robots
- ESRB rating: T for Blood and Gore, Partial Nudity, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Violence
- Last updated: January 13, 2022
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