It’s excellently drawn! The in-game music too is good. The game starts promisingly with the best loading screen of the series. But perhaps I’ve been wrong all this time, and yet another journey through seedy streets fighting gang members would have grown stale? After-all, the game did score a Crash Smash and 91% at the time, so maybe all these years I’ve been missing out on playing the best game in the series? Back in the day I was put off by the storyline alone – the idea of a time travelling adventure felt almost disrespectful of what had gone before rather than a fresh direction.

Perhaps add a couple of new fight moves? Perhaps interactive scenery like Double Dragon? Perhaps more levels and even an Outrun-style branching map of New York where you can take different routes to your final goal to give you longevity in the gameplay? And you have to bring back the multiple bosses of Renegade – Target Renegade’s only flaw.Īlthough I’ve always been down on Renegade 3: The Final Chapter, I’d never actually played it until now. Obviously you want to retain the distinctive graphic style, the two player mode of Target Renegade, and the weapons. While Target Renegade managed to retain the DNA of its predecessor, and expand on it adding a simultaneous two player mode and weapons! So how do you better that? Renegade was a faithful conversion of the arcade original, and in some ways was actually better than its source material.

Renegade and Target Renegade are two of the best games on the ZX Spectrum, and almost certainly the best beat ’em ups on the system.

Unreal speccy portable