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One of the worst games ever made
By Dan Loosen

February 10, 2004


Reader Average Score
20%
(24 scores.)
Kill It


I can just imagine someone walking into a store and seeing this game on the shelf back when the Jaguar was released. Another Double Dragon title... Awesome! The Double Dragon series was one of my favorite NES series, and I was ready to welcome it back on the Jaguar. Only this isn't the Double Dragon that I grew up with. If I had just paid $50.00 for this and my new Jaguar system, I would be extremely angry. Why? What's changed? It isn't a beat-em-up, it's a one-on-one fighter.

WHAT?!? You heard that right, one-on-one fighter... With "classic" Double Dragon characters and control. Here I am expecting a great beat-em-up, which is one of my favorite genre's and what do I get? Perhaps the worst 2D fighting game ever. When this game was released, Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat were ruling the arcades, and I guess that someone thought that Double Dragon would make a great beat-em-up. In fact, this game was also released for the Genesis and SNES.

The graphics are, in a word, horrible. This game could have been done on a SNES with the same graphical flair. Maybe even a NES. The sound effects and music follow suit. The control is as stiff as the characters move, and the characters balance is way off. If you have a character with a low attack, just do that over and over and you'll beat the game. If you have a regular character, good luck lasting for long in the upper stages.

There simply isn't anything more to say about this game. It's better than White Men Can't Jump, but only because of a technicality -- WMCJ is actually playable (when you read that review you'll understand what I mean). This is an absolute stinker, and you should avoid this game.

Graphics 5%
Sound/Music 10%
Gameplay 10%
Control 10%
Overall 8%