The TakeOver on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

The Takeover is a side-scrolling beat'em up inspired by 90's classics such as Streets of Rage and Final Fight. Battle solo or alongside a friend in local co-op while listening to awesome tunes from Little V Mills, Richie Branson, James Ronald and industry legend Yuzo Koshiro!

The TakeOver is a beat 'em up, action and indie game developed and published by Pelikan13.
Released on November 09th 2019 is available only on Windows in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Japanese.

It has received 1,062 reviews of which 896 were positive and 166 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 3.99€ on Steam with a 80% discount.

The Steam community has classified The TakeOver into these genres:

Beat 'em up Action Indie Casual Violent Arcade Side Scroller Local Co-Op Gore 1990's Retro Fighting Classic Co-op Campaign Adventure

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Windows

OS *: Windows 7/8/10
Processor: Intel Pentium Dual Core or equivalent
Memory: 3 GB RAM
Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 or equivalent
Storage: 4000 MB available space

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Dec. 2024

While I wish this game had better polish than it does, I enjoyed my time with The Takeover. This one marries Kung Fury with Golden Axe, each of the playable protagonists are charismatic enough to spend a couple hours throwing bows with. Seems there's an extra unlockable character (probably for beating it), but I may never find out considering its higher quality competitors (TMNT, Streets of Rage, etc). I have issues with the controls & hit boxes, but with an arcade fight stick, the experience might improve. I'm a fan of the genre - but Mr. Miyagi taught me that when we put passion before principle, even if you win, you lose.

Dec. 2024

The Take Over: The Graphics: The game graphics is nice and very detailed. Not much to say about it. It’s refreshing that the game avoids low-poly art, a style that’s become overused in modern games, often making them feel indistinguishable. (I am not referring to PixeArt, PixelAre will always be amazing) :) Graphics are somewhat realistic in the game and comics style between the stages which is nice touch and add a good nostalgic feel to the fans of comics in the era from 80’s and 90’s The graphics in the game just works and do what it’s supposed to do. It’s sharp, its clear and colorful. The models are detailed and this is more than enough for a beat em up game. The sound: The sound is nice and the punches are strong and you feel the energy when you start giving punches and kick. I have some small notice here and there for the sound FX, like example I am not sure about the slicing sound FX of the sword and some other minor nitpicking. However I love the sound of machineguns and pistols. The Music: Great tunes - mixture between modern synthwave and powerchord rocking tunes. Also its draw heavy inspiration from Streets Of Rage (more on than that later). It’s good, nothing super memorable or hit reward quality but is catchy and fit the atmosphere of the every level very well. The Gameplay: Here is my biggest complain. While the control and pacing of the game is great, precise and very tight the overall gameplay is not something to remember with. You have new combo mechanics. Usually in beat um games you press one and the same button and combos will be done automatically. In some way here is somewhat similar but not so. If you combine different punches and kicks you will get different combos also combined with up and down on D-Pad you will get good variety of combos. This is very nice touch and kind of unique to the game. Also you have two power meters to feel up: Special and Rage. They both have different roles one of them just blow up entire screen and the other make you faster, stronger and invincible for short period of time. Also you have ranged weapon (shotgun, pistol or revolver depend on character you play with) which use ammo. But not all is that great. Beside that there is nothing much more to the gameplay. Weapons are scarce and very few and you never feel the need to use one. Often the weapons will be just worst than just your kicks and punches. Overall not a bad gameplay but something is missing. Theme and inspiration: Here is my second big critique for the game. It’s heavily inspired if not even copied from Streets Of Rage 2. Basically this game feels like remake: 1. Main characters are almost identical (excluding the military guy) to the characters or Streets of Rage. 2. They are police officer which go vigilante to save a little girl. 3. This time the blond guy (Axel) and the lady in the red dress (Blaze) heck she even have almost the same mole as Blaze, they are couple and have a girl that is kidnapped and they go to rescue mission to save her. 4. Many levels are basically copied from Streets Of Rage 2 – First level street, the bar (almost identical) , the arena (this almost identical), the ship, the beach , the island – this all levels and themes are lifted directly from Streets Of Rage 2 and not only that, but the entire atmosphere is and feel like Streets Of Rage 2. And I cant say this is necessary a good thing. Of course SoR2 is an amazing game, be inspired by a game is one thing, but trying to copy so many stuff it’s way too obvious. Even the lead character have almost identical special moves, kicks and throws like Axel from Streets Of Rage. Verdict: The Takeover is nice throw back to the good old formula of beat em up genre. It’s nice game to just chillout and mash few buttons and listen to some nice tunes. It’s not masterpiece but it’s a decent game that if you are fan of old school brawlers – you should buy it. However I cant recommend the game on full price. Without much to unlock and not much content after beating the main story there is not much reason to return to the game again. Playing on harder or challenges is not very fun overall. 6.5/10

Aug. 2024

Clearly inspired by Sega's Streets of Rage series, a solid game with good visuals and fun moment to moment gameplay. Sometimes the controls don't feel as responsive as I'd like, and the music can be a bit generic. Otherwise a good game well worth the purchase if you like side-scrolling brawlers.

May 2024

Resident Evil meets Street Fighter. That medium-built guy looks very much like Leon in the game than in the CG. With all the nice kicks, punches, guns, and him dealing with monsters in Chapter 4, this game could be a fun DLC for any RE remasters. That fireball comes out of his hand w/ good damage looks neat and familiar, and the blast when you get full energy is stunning. I had some fun playing, the hits feel strong and satisfying, with good visuals. However there aren't enough enemy kinds, just longer health bars and the walkthrough feels repeated. In my opinion, if the main campaign is about 1/2 - 2/3 of current length it might be better. Overall it's worth a try, at least on discount for $3.99. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/WelcomeWhyNotGames] My curator page

May 2024

Genuinely good game. More Streets of Rage than Streets of Rage 4. The graphics are a bit rough around the edges, and I would like to have seen more combos. But it feels good. Hopefully a Takeover 2 will be released that improves on this one. This game can actually become a cult classic if the devs take it seriously.

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Pelikan13

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Pelikan13

Release 09 Nov 2019

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