![]() ![]() I suppose you would get refreshed when you hop on a plane to go from China to Italy. You also have your health restored between each country. To be fair, each character does have their own life bar, but some might find it too difficult to get to the second playable character. Its only a 30 minute game from start to finish, how many times will you die? The previous games had death traps, spikes, pits and falls that would murder you, but what about Double Dragon 3? There are a few necessary jumps and death pits, but its nothing as difficult as the previous games Some even have five.There could have even been an options menu that lets you select your lives or difficulty, but Double Dragon 3 knows what’s best. Oh sure, that’s true to the real world, you die and that’s it, but video games are typically synonymous with three lives. Speaking of poor programming, you only get one life. Perhaps that is so you can always tell where an enemy is, but since no other brawler does that, I will chalk it up to poor programming. ![]() You’ll find a number of glitches and issues with this game, such as when you’re in the foreground and someone is in the background, they appear in the foreground over you. Everything does look serviceable, there are details in the backgrounds that makes me think the real time went into the details rather than the technical things such as programming. The characters are smaller, but still larger than the original Double Dragon. The graphics are still an impressive part of the series with Double Dragon 3. For the first time in the series, you can fight more than one type of enemy in an area. In the past two games you were locked to an area until the game allowed you to progress with a blinking arrow of some sort. One notable thing is unless you’re in a room, you can now scroll the screen. You can switch between weapons, which is a nice, but unnecessary feature. Weapons can now break in the game and that does make sense, since you can keep weapons in a sort of inventory on the pause screen. It does mix things up, and one even has throwing stars and a dash to change the pace, but for the most part they all feel and play the same. In a way that can still be a good thing, I’d have no idea that I was in the USA fighting without being told before a stage.Īt some point, you get additional characters to play as that you can switch between via the pause menu. Again its all about telling you, rather than showing you. I would think that showing the weapon in your hand is a good enough indicator of what you’re holding. The information at the bottom of the screen is good, it shows your health and even what you’re attacking with. You can tell a lot in a story without text or cut scenes, but Double Dragon 3 leaves nothing to your imagination. ![]() There’s more of a story influence to the game as if a beat’em up needs more text to read through. The Mario and Luigi, the Sonic and Tails or in this case the Billy and Jimmy Lee, but the game misspells it as Bimmy and Jimmy Lee. Two characters that the player has always plays as. Two characters that have been in the series since its inception. It just feels like a lot less work went into them and they botch the spelling of one of their two protagonists. On the plus side, the game does have cut scenes like the previous game, but they pale in comparison. You even take a helicopter to a fortress at some point, but in Double Dragon 3, you’re just at a new locale with no mention of how you got there. Double Dragon 2 had a diverse array of environments that let you know just how far you were traveling. City to city, continent to continent and you might think that it must be a long game, but no its just the same brawling game with different environments. The game’s real gimmick here is fighting all over the world to save her. The goal is as it has always been, to save Marian from goons and thugs, because a new evil has risen to kidnap her… again! Its a typical plot and its never the plot that’s important, its all about the belt scrolling, beat’em up brawling action where you play as brothers Billy and Jimmy Lee in single player or two player cooperative action. Double Dragon 2 was a huge leap up from its predecessor, but when it comes to the third installment of the beloved franchise, it doesn’t just stumble, but breaks its own legs even trying to walk. ![]()
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