This nostalgic beat 'em up is fun, but not on the level of "Streets of Rage 4" or "Shredder's Revenge". With its colorful pixel artwork and retro soundtrack, the game is like a brawler from the SNES era. But it can get repetitive due to its very generic design. The enemy types are limited, the combat is simple and the boss fights are underwhelming. Composed of 12 stages, "Wrath" can be beaten in about two hours. You can play the chapters in any order and local co-op supports up to four players. Unfortunately, there is no online option. You can unlock two other Joes and plenty of modes, but it takes some grinding. Overall, "G.I. Joe: Wrath of Cobra" will please fans of the 80's animated show. I would rate it with a 7 out of 10.

This game is terrible. Really boring and you get absolutely no continues. If you were going for retro arcade why forget the continues. They give you only 3 lives and expect you to go through, especially for the final level. It's impossible. The difficulty spikes no matter the level, it's glitchy and no continues if you die. Do yourself a favor save your $25 for a actual good game that is out. I regret it. Hopefully they'll do an update to fix this. Wouldn't hold my breath though.

I just don't really understand so many of the decisions made for this game. I'm going to go into spoilers about the "story" and such below, so if you just want my opinion.. If you are a fan of G.I. Joe there is fun to be had here, especially if you have another friend who is into G.I. Joe as well. If you are a fan of the beat em' up genre and coming off Shredders Revenge, or Streets of Rage 4 and are looking for the next good side scrolling beat em' up.. This isn't it. There is fun to be had if you are a Joe fan. I certainly haven't laughed as hard as I laughed at this game for a long time. My friend and I are eager to play it again. It was worth the $22 I paid for it. I probably got $22 of enjoyment out of it. But I Probably wouldn't have gotten that same enjoyment without another G.I. Joe loving friend near me. My kids who love Shredder's revenge didn't like this game. My Joe loving friend and I talked about this as I write this review and we feel satisfied for $22, but if this was not attached to the G.I. Joe IP then $22 would have felt like way too much. It's not even a good "mediocre" beat em' up. I really don't understand why you'd bother putting in the effort with the G.I. Joe license.. I don't get why this company released a demo over 6 months ago got a bunch of feedback and changed absolutely nothing about it. It took my friend and I about 2 hours to beat the game. We're probably going to go back try to beat the harder modes unlock everything but after that.. I don't know I don't see coming back to this like I do Shredders Revenge or SoR. In the end.. For the Joe fan.. It's probably "good enough," but the honest truth is this game isn't going to pull in any beat em' up fans into sticking around to check out G.I. Joe later.. Which is such a shame.. Because this was a chance to make something truly special here and someone either the devs or Hasbro or both failed the fans. Unfortunately, this means the best G.I. Joe game remains the NES games or the 2015 fan game attack on cobra island. Read a Full review here: ****/r/gijoe/comments/1ftv3a0/gi_joe_wrath_of_cobra_game_review/