(Overall) Toxic Crusaders is a side scrolling beat 'em up released in 1992 and based on the American cartoon of the same name. You are a bad to the bone mutant custodian with the most killer mop you have ever seen! Your side kick is what I can only describe as annoying orange with sharp teeth. You have multiple attacks like swinging your mob, spinning, and waking your side kick like a golf ball. On the first level you start out riding a skate bored that fires red laser's, but watch out for cars! You will face a variety of enemies including orange and blue guys with guns, bees, helicopters, and strange green mutant rodents to name a few. This is your basic beat 'em up but with some elements of a platformer.
(Graphics) This game has pretty good graphics. The colors are vivid and the things in the game really look like what they are supposed to. The back grounds is what kills the graphics! In the first act you are on the street for most of the level and probably has the best back ground in the entire game. Act 2 has a dull blue back ground that just don't have any eye appeal. Act 3 yet again has a dull back ground, but this time its a nasty brown orange color. I think they were going for an air pollution look, if so they hit the nail right on the head. Act 4 has the level from act 3 as its back ground. The graphics in Toxic Crusaders reminds me of Haunting Starring Polterguy and B.O.B made by electronic arts. Overall the game has good graphics but just needs better back grounds.
(Sound) The music on the opening title screens and start screen has a Toe Jam and Earl funky beat about it, and is really catchy. On act 1 you can't even hear the music over the sound of your lazier firing skate bored, so I couldn't tell you if its good or not. The sound effects or pretty decent but sometimes over powers the music. The music is nothing special but its not one of those games you have to turn the volume off of your computer or tv to play. It would have been better if the music set more of a mood instead of just being back ground noise.
(Addictiveness) Each stage has a very different layouts and traps to keep it fresh. You will see some new enemies each act and some enemies recycled through out the game. Addictiveness is really in the eye of the beholder and for me I can play this game over and over due to the strange characters and good game play. This beat 'em up is a lot different from others like the Streets of Rare games because of the platformer elements witch makes it a game you want to pop in when you don't know if you want to play some thing a little different.
(Story) So, I'm on my way to hang out with my blonde babe, Yvonne, when these whacked-out troopers in these crazy getups drop out of the sky and ruin my day! If these garbage slinging chumps think they're gonna trash Iromaville like they have my weekend, they're gonna taste my mop! This is how the story starts. When you complete an act you are ether given a little bit of story or some cheesy dialog like the game Haunting Starring Polterguy.
(Depth) This game only has a few acts and will probably only take you about an hour to beat if you have played it a lot. Toxic Crusaders is not as short as Altered Beast but its defiantly no epic quest.
(Difficulty) The first time you play Toxic Crusaders you may have some trouble but as you get acquainted with the game it will get easier. The first act is pretty easy as well as the first boss, a two headed monster that looks like a dragon. As the game progresses you will find that its not so easy just to fly through the level.
Toxic Crusaders is not the best game on the Sega Genesis but is defiantly a real hidden gem. I picked this game up at a thrift store when I first started collecting Genesis games, they had it originally priced at five bucks but marked down to a dollar so I bought it. I really had no clue what to expect when I got this game and had low expectations. Toxic Crusaders was much better than I thought it would be and still play it every now and then. If you have never played this game before you should check it out!
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