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7.0 User Score:

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Game Info

Publisher: Empire Interactive

Developer: Razerworks

Genre(s): Action, Beat-'Em-Up

Players: 2

ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older)

Release Date: May 9, 2007

Summary

[Xbox Live Arcade] Double Dragon re-introduces martial Arts masters, Billy and Jimmy Lee (AKA Hammer and Spike), who must defeat the savage street gang known as the Black Warriors to rescue Billy's girlfriend, Marian. Fight your way through four levels from the street and factory to jungle/forest and castle, using every move available to you such as back-kicks, elbows, uppercuts and more. The Xbox Live Arcade version featurse a downloadable demo and original and graphical enhanced versions. Player action includes online co-op 2 player and one-on-one fighting for the final battle. The game also features the opportunity to score 12 achievement points for your online Xbox Live Arcade profile and an online leaderboard gives you the opportunity to show off your Double Dragon skills to your friends. [Empire Interactive]

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What The Critics Said

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Official Xbox Magazine UK

The end fight where you have to plug every single enemy and boss before facing the unfairly tough villain is the stuff of legends...Co-op play is essential if you want to finish the game. [Feb 2007, p.100]

Game Chronicles

While Double Dragon might not turn the heads of today’s youngsters, aging gamers will definitely enjoy the quick stroll down memory lane.

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GameSpot

Double Dragon for the Xbox Live Arcade will provide some quick entertainment for nostalgia fiends, but the game doesn't hold up as well as you might hope.

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Official Xbox Magazine

So what's missing? Replayability. Using unlimited continues (an option we do appreciate), both one- and two-player games top out at just under 30 minutes. [June 2007, p.73]

X360 Magazine UK

Unlike other coin-op conversions on Live, the online experience is virtually flawless and lag-free. [Issue 21, p.116]

IGN

Double Dragon can be fun, but it under-delivers. This is a five-dollar game. You deserve more than a crap framerate and lingering bugs. The fact that co-op is so difficult due to the slowdown sucks most of the joy from Double Dragon.

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Team Xbox

Double Dragon succeeds in delivering the same action as its NES predecessor, but it’s bogged down by its total lack of difficulty and the pitiful emulation job.

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Planet Xbox 360

A game that should have received a massive retooling to bring it into the modern era, or been left to those gamers that like to pull out their old NES system once in a while. Though the game is only 400 points, that is a steep price for about 20 minutes of game play.

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Games Radar (in-house)

A little bit of quality assurance time would have gone a long way in improving Double Dragon, but ultimately, this brawler just isn’t main-event material anymore.

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Computer and Video Games

Immensely hard difficulty levels aside in single-player, the co-op mode is fun and much easier to tackle. Oddly it's painfully slow in places with more than five enemies on screen at once. We didn't expect this at all from our next-gen experience of Double Dragon.

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Gamestyle

So all in all, with the impressive Double Dragon Advance being available since 2003, an arcade perfect version of the original was never going to wow today's audience, even with it's HD graphics & online co-op options.

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Eurogamer

A very short, and very dull, brawler. Double Dragon does include some nice "extras" - configurable controls, and some arcade flyers, which should be worth an extra point, but throws the point away with quite possibly the worst (unstoppable) menu music I have ever heard in my entire life.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this game is 7.0 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Toby O. gave it a7:
It's a $5 history lesson. Back in the day, Double Dragon was the stuff. It may not have aged the best, but it's a 80's arcade brawler, not an RPG or even Street Fighter! I had fun returning to it (back elbow rules!), and didn't run into the glitches and bugs bemoaned in other reviews. If money's no object, though, I highly recommend Atlus' Double Dragon Advance for GBA.

Darren D. gave it a6:
Not how I remembered it. Far too short and far too easy with unlimited continues and the achievements are glitched.

Nick G. gave it a7:
This is one of those games, that if you liked the original, you'll probably enjoy it here, although because of being able to continue after you die, you're now able to complete the game. Once completed, it may not offer any real replay value, other than trying to obtain some of the difficult achievements.

Kenny gave it a10:
This one was a buy as soon as i seen it available on the marketplace. If you were a fan of the arcade or even the extended NES version, then this is a must buy for you.

Mat C. gave it a3:
Sluggish, unresponsive, and steals the fun of the arcade original away by not being ready for prime-time.

Crakaveli The Don gave it a10:
This game is timeless an absolute classic, it brings back fond memories of my childhood playing this game with my brother. Quite simply they don't make games like this anymore!

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