Four more for Euro VC

By Emma Boyes, GameSpot UKPosted Mar 2, 2007 6:14 am PT

This week sees the release of Streets of Rage for the Nintendo Wii's download centre.

Last week, Europeans got access to The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on the Wii's Virtual Console. This week four more titles have been released, including Sega's Streets of Rage, for European Wii owners.

Streets of Rage was originally released in 1991 for the Sega Mega Drive, and was the first game in the trilogy. The street fighting game for one or two players has gamers playing ex-cops who have taken the law into their own hands.

Also released today is role-playing game Sword of Vermilion, originally released on the Sega Mega Drive, where players battle to save the world of Vermilion, and 2D side-scrolling shoot-'em-up Biohazard Battle, also a Sega Mega Drive game.

The final title on the list is Chew Man Fu for TurboGrafx, a one- to two-player game of 550 rounds in which players must battle to fight a curse to rob the world of tasty snacks.

All this week's titles cost 800 Wii Points, except Chew Man Fu, which weighs in at 600 points.

53 Comments

  • rdnapper

    Posted Mar 7, 2007 9:05 am PT

    Street of Rage! Awesome. Was a great game but annoyed me when I used to press A by accident and then you call for backup when you don't need it :/

  • Chainblast

    Posted Mar 5, 2007 8:41 pm PT

    Nice.

  • slyfox_28

    Posted Mar 5, 2007 7:30 pm PT

    I love Streets of Rage 2. I think that was the best of the three, but I cannot see that game ever being on xbox live arcade. It just doesn't suit it.

  • gmax Site moderator

    Posted Mar 4, 2007 9:03 pm PT

    Euro Wii... Yikes.

  • x-2tha-z

    Posted Mar 4, 2007 10:53 am PT

    I hope Streets of Rage 2 comes out on the xbox live arcade.

  • Regginator14520

    Posted Mar 4, 2007 7:39 am PT

    Streets of Rage rules, i'd like to see it be remade for the Wii, and keep it's 2D form somehow.

  • zenszulu

    Posted Mar 4, 2007 6:43 am PT

    Why all this hate over news for Europe and the UK? Since there is a lot of people, like me from there, and we use this site as much as people from the US, so it's only right that they report news from there and they have open Gamespot UK to help that. We also get told about the Virtual Console games on the Official Nintendo site here so that's where Gamespot must be getting them, and it's about time we starting getting games before the rest of the world, Nintendo is putting a lot more effort into Europe than Sony in that respect.

  • shinchy

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 2:45 pm PT

    Streets of Rage 1 and 2 remain to this day have the best soundtrack to any video game ever.

  • iceuk

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 4:30 am PT

    Streets of Rage was probably one of the best games for the SMD!... nice to see it being resurrected..

  • tdfury

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 3:43 am PT

    can i get a screw uppa

  • wwonka666

    Posted Mar 3, 2007 1:02 am PT

    kavadias1981

    I bought Ocarina of Time and Streets of Rage yesterday. I'm very happy. ... Not as happy as we are for you.

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 10:51 pm PT

    I bought Ocarina of Time and Streets of Rage yesterday. I'm very happy.

  • ksmitt

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 8:37 pm PT

    Sword of Vermillion was a great challenge. Looking forward to playing that again

  • LordAndrew

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 4:56 pm PT

    GameSpot is an American site. GameSpot UK is the UK branch of GameSpot. There's also a GameSpot Australia.

  • hesel

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:20 pm PT

    Yeah Streets of rage is great, I still got that on the Sega MegaDrive got it for only £2 ^-^.

    Maxx_the_slash if I lived in America I would expect, there to be information, about American releases, (which there is on this website so I don't know what your talking about) same as I would living in the UK, Gamespot is a universal website. If it doesn't interest you don't read it. Your a person who likes to pick fights thinking there hard, which is pathetic to be honest.

  • Timotht

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 3:09 pm PT

    Bah! Who needs a virtual console I've got Streets of Rage 1&2 for my genesis.

  • Chief_Kuuni

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 2:18 pm PT

    great games

  • Rocky32189

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 2:02 pm PT

    "Theres no review for Ocarina because its a long game and Gamespot plays through the entire game before they review it, unlike IGN who just plays the first few hours."

    I'm sure they played through it 8 1/2 years ago like the rest of us.

  • Maxx_the_Slash

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 12:15 pm PT

    Oh yeah, and GameSpot, despite being founded in the UK, is owned by CNET Networks, Inc., which is an American internet media company based in San Francisco.

  • TheChronoMaster

    Posted Mar 2, 2007 12:13 pm PT

    Because nothing's going on in America.

    'course, nothing's going on in Europe either. Iran is where all the cool kids live.

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