Plays like Streets of Rage and has cloned bad guys like Streets of Rage. Tokyo Beat Down has very few ideas of its own, whether or not that's a bad thing is up to you.
Available on:
DS
Genre: Action Expected release date: TBA Published by: Atlus Developed by: Success
Dirty Harry. Bad Lieutenant. LA Confidential. Maniac Cop. All films starring violent cops, but none of those flatfloots are a patch on Tokyo Beat Down’s Lewis Cannon. If you squeezed the essence of cinema’s meanest cops into a cup, Cannon would gulp it down and ask for more. ...
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