This past November developer Lucky Kat Studios released Beat Street (Free), an old-school-inspired side-scrolling beat ’em up game. While many modern beat ’em ups look to capture the magic of the classics, most fail to do so, but Beat Street managed to find that special sauce that brought that old-school arcade gameplay into the modern age of mobile gaming. The combat mechanics are great, there are a dozen playable characters that can be upgraded and improved as you play, and there is an absolutely massive story-driven campaign that originally featured a whopping 90 levels to complete. Not to mention a cool endless survival mode as well as special limited time events featuring unique characters and environments to brawl in. Oh and did I mention it features online cooperative play" Yes, Beat Street is in my eyes easily the best beat ’em up on the App Store, and today it’s received possibly its biggest update yet, adding in an entire new storyline with 38(!) new levels to play through as well as new character Urs.
Beat Street seems to have been a massive success on the App Store since its release last year, even capturing the heart of hip-hop artist Soulja Boy who was added in as a playable character back in March. A lot of that likely has to do with the game being free to play, meaning there’s no barrier of entry for folks to check it out. The pay model is pretty typical free to play fare, mostly centering around the extensive charac...