Streets of Rage 4: How to unlock every new and retro character

Streets of Rage 4 is a celebration of the entire franchise, featuring practically every character from all the previous titles in both retro stylings and a new colourful sheen. 

The only catch is you’re only allowed to play as four characters from the outset, with the rest unlocked predominantly through hitting lifetime score milestones. 

There’s tips and tricks to achieving high scores on levels, which is calculated by time taken to beat the level, remaining health and how many stars you have left. 

The best way to keeping gaining points is to replay levels on various difficulty settings and with different characters, which will grant you extra point bonuses at the end of each stage. 

You’ll have to invest pretty deeply to unlock the full roster too. Below you’ll find the lifetime score milestones you have to reach to unlock each character in Streets of Rage 4. 

Streets of Rage 4 features a bunch of characters (Picture: Lizardcube) 

• Adam Hunter - beat stage 4 in story mode
• SOR1 Axel Stone - hit 200,000 lifetime points
• SOR1 Adam Hunter - hit 250,000 lifetime points
• SOR1 Blaze Fielding - hit 310,000 lifetime points
• SOR2 Max Thunder - hit 390,000 lifetime points
• SOR2 Axel Stone - hit 480,000 lifetime points
• SOR2 Blaze Fielding - hit 570,000 lifetime points
• SOR2 Skate Hunter - hit 650,000 lifetime points
• SOR3 Axel Stone - hit 730,000 lifetime points
• SOR3 Blaze Fielding - hit 840,000 lifetime points
• SOR3 Skate Hunter - hit 940,000 lifetime points
• SOR3 Dr Gilbert Zan - hit 1,050,000 lifetime points
• SOR3 Shiva - hit 1,150,000 lifetime points

Streets of Rage 4 is available on PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One and PC.