The SoR name is popular to us. It's common for older gamers,heavy gamers and so forth to know that name. Yet, nowadays we are the minority. The public knows Driver due to the sucess of the GTA and the playstation era. I would hope it would sell well do to name, i'm just afraid most people would just pass it by. I think it be no differnt if "Final Fight" were to release a game.
Beats of Rage is great. There's a good amount of mods out there for it. One of my favorite being the Robotech mod. I believe someone here on the board was even creating a NGEMU game using the BoR engine.
I love Koshir's work as well. The opening song of SoR II is a great mix.
http://www.ocremix.org/game/80/ is a link to a large amount of remix's as well as the soundtrack for listening pleasure. I recently bought the arranged album from Amazon on a buy 3 get 1 free deal. It's a excellent piece of work.
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