Just terrible in every way!

User Rating: 1 | Double Dragon 3: The Arcade Game GEN
By flintheart_glomgold | Review Date:
As a huge fan of the original arcade game I was astounded at how awful (and weird) this threequel is. The gameplay is non-existent. For a side-scrolling beat-'em-up this fails to be engaging on every level (pun intended). There is NO skill involved in any of it. Most punches and kicks fail to connect, none of the enemies differentiate from each other and it's too slow and sluggish. In fact it's a lot like the terrible Double Dragon game on the Commodore 64. A game so bad it's been the butt of many thousands of jokes since I first got it FIFTEEN YEARS AGO!

I just don't understand what's going on in this game. Who is the creepy little E.T. guy? Why do big hands and cubes of non-moving/threatening concrete (!) come out the ground to kill you? What's the deal with the headless ninja corpses that turn into tree trunks when you kill them? How do you fall into quicksand in the desert only to end up in an underground forest? What the hell is going on??? I kid you not, this game is one of the most baffling artifacts in the whole universe. Forget the Turin Shroud.

If you like the genre play the Streets of Rage games and forget this travesty. It's amazing games this bad are made.

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    Worst $2.00 I've ever Spent!

    By boricua4life21 | Review Date: Mar 07, 2006 | GEN

    With a name like Double Dragon attached to this, you figure this has got to be good right? That's what went thru my mind when i was at the store where i buy my NES and Genesis game. SWEET! Double Dragon III for only $2.0... Read Full Review

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