Saturday, December 7, 2013

The saga Double Dragon lands on iPhone, iPad and Android - GamerZona

Over the years

80-90 beat’em up genre was one of the most played worldwide. His jumping arcade consoles sector not long in coming, with some blockbuster titles such as Streets of Rage or Final Fight. Similarly, the saga Double Dragon was one of the leaders. His first three episodes now come to iOS devices and Android to the delight of nostalgic fans.

ran 1987 when it came to the arcades the first episode of Double Dragon . Powered by Technos, leveled the game on this platform and was soon adapted to other quite varied, from 2600 Atari 8-bit consoles like NES and Master System.

His well received by the public led developers to create a sequel, Double Dragon II: The Revenge , in which the protagonists, Billy and Jimmy Lee, trying to avenge the death of first girlfriend at the hands of Willy, the leader of the dreaded Black warriors. While the storyline was not particularly attractive game dynamics yes he was, with a tight level of difficulty for both one as for two players simultaneously.

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Soon, improving the graphical level of the previous releases, its developers returned to wager excess leading to the launch of Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone . For this occasion the guidelines were followed in the previous chapter, ie, paste-paste-jump-jump, but with better graphics and opening the possibility of choosing more characters. Also noteworthy is the great difficulty of this issue, as its creators chose to set the maximum realism and give the player one life to complete all 5 scenarios.

The game returns 20 years later

More than two decades later, this trilogy back hard, this time to fashion devices: smartphones and tablets. Called Double Dragon Trilogy and published by DotEmu, the game can be downloaded from both the App Store for iPhone and iPad and Android devices from Google Play by 1.99 and 2.69 euros respectively.

Besides having adapted controls and visually tweaked the three episodes (without sacrificing the classic sprites), the game features 3 difficulty levels two soundtracks (the original 8-bit or a new remastered) and play in cooperative mode via Bluetooth . In addition, soon will be playable using the controls for these devices. We leave you with a trailer that will surely awakens old memories in older gamers.

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