Sift Heads Street Wars is a singleplayer game, as well as the first, although short lived, multiplayer game. In the single player version, we only play as Vinnie. In the multiplayer version, the protagonist's name is decided by the player. The game is set directly after the Sift Heads World series. It was later incorporated into Sift Heads Reborn and rebranded as Cartels - Prologue. Storyline-wise, the Takedown mode was placed between chapters 7 and 8 of Sift Heads Reborn.
Story[]
The game starts with the new leaders of the Red Mafia, Luzio with Rino, talking about the events of Sift Heads World Ultimatum. They follow intel from one of Vinnie's informants and attempt to ambush him at a train station where he is thought to be. Once there, they go in front of the train station, but only find a homeless person. Just as they get angry that Vinnie is not there and that they received fake news, the homeless person stands up, revealing the bounty hunter himself. A gunfight ensues between the three, with the Italians being aided by the Yakuza. During the fight, none of the three can be killed, only the Yakuzas. Before Luzio and Rino manage to get the better of Vinnie, Kiro arrives on a train and evacuates his associate. Angered, Luzio and Rino decide to leave as well, as the police are approaching.
Later, Kiro decides to stay outside the crew's new headquarters and watch it so it does not get blown up like the previous one did. Vinnie goes inside, takes a gun from Shorty and takes off to Darwen's house. The player is then given a choice which weapon Vinnie will take from Darwen - either an assault rifle, or a shotgun. Having made a decision, Vinnie leaves to find an informant. The first one does not have any relevant information about the cartels themselves, but he does guide Vinnie to another informant in the Northern area of Chicago.
Moments before Vinnie meets up with the second informant, the Red Mafia members run the informant over and another fight ensues. After Vinnie has killed all the assailants, he finds a phone which his late informant was going to show to him. Vinnie concludes that the Red Mafia have a plantation in Brazil and decides to burn it down.
Once Vinnie has burned down the plantation, causing significant financial losses to the Red Mafia, he calls Shorty from a phone booth. He tells her that he is coming back to Chicago. Before he does, however, Luzio and Rino arrive at the headquarters and abduct Shorty.
Trivia[]
- Street Wars was supposed to start a new series after Sift Heads World, with an entirely new gameplay style and a multiplayer mode. However, the creators changed their plans and settled for a simpler, yet upgraded version of the Sift Heads World gameplay style. Since the new version of Street Wars hardly resembled the original Street Wars, the following three acts received the name Cartels.
- Even though Kiro was supposed to guard the new headquarters, Luzio and Rino still got past him and abducted Shorty, for some reason leaving him unscathed.