Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid is a fighting game developed by San Francisco-based game developer nWay, featuring characters from the Power Rangers franchise. It was released digitally for Nintendo Switch and Xbox One on March 26, 2019, for PlayStation 4 on April 2, 2019, for Microsoft Windows on September 24, 2019, and for Stadia on June 1, 2020. Limited Run Games released a standard physical version on the Switch and PlayStation 4 alongside a more expensive Mega Edition, which included a SteelBook case, 18" X 24" poster, and 5 coins in addition to the game. Pre-orders went up for sale in June 2019 with the game delivered in November 2019. In October 2020, Maximum Games published the "Collector's Edition" which included the character Lauren Shiba, both physically and digitally. A third version (physical and digital) the Super Edition containing all previous downloadable content was released digitally in May 2021 and physically in August 2021.
Why It Rocks
Incredibly deep fighting mechanics akin to Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. They are easy to learn but hard to master, making it perfect for beginners.
A ton of the actors from the TV series reprise their roles from the show, most notably Austin St. John as the Mighty Morphin Red Ranger and the late Jason David Frank as the Mighty Morphin Green and White Rangers, and Lord Drakkon.
Includes characters from all across the Power Rangers media, such as comic-only characters and even characters from the infamous 2017 movie.
Story mode is incredibly good, being based off the Shattered Grid storyline from the Boom Studios comics. You do get to play as each character, including the villains, something most story modes in fighting games don't do very often.
The graphics are extremely stunning, especially for a Power Rangers game.
Great character roster that includes fan-favourites like the Mighty Morphin Green Ranger, to forgotten characters like Lauren from Power Rangers Samurai.
Each character plays differently, for example, the Magna Defender is slow but powerful, the SPD Kat Ranger relies on fast attacks and MMPR Red is a well-rounded character.
After a few updates and DLC, the game is now full of content, having multiple modes, such as arcade, story, etc.
The game is incredibly cheap, only costing $30 at launch and even now.
Has tons of little details and easter eggs that fans of Power Rangers will love.
Bad Qualities
Some of the more experienced fighting game fans may not enjoy it for how simple the control scheme it.
When the game first launched, it barely had any content, but after multiple updates, the game is now full of it.
It does not contain any playable characters from Turbo, In Space, Lightspeed Rescue, Wild Force, Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, Operation Overdrive, RPM, Ninja Steel and the Hasbro era seasons (Beast Morphers, Dino Fury and Cosmic Fury), so if any of those are your favourite Power Rangers season, you may be dissapointed.
Sometimes, the game is basically reskins to the mobile fighting games "Power Rangers: Legacy Wars" due to similarities when comes to graphics and gameplay. Albeit this game doesn't have microtransactions.
