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When reviewing a game like Final Fight: Double Impact, it would be unfair to judge the game like any other game released today. With a game like this, it’s all about how much it reminds you of your childhood and how well it was pulled off! Having Final Fight and Magic Sword packaged into one download for the price of $10, this is one of the best re-releases in a long time. They’re both 2D side-scrolling beat ’em ups that are still great fun to play today.
The presentation of Final Fight: Double Impact is top notch. The game starts up and has you choose from the two beautifully nostalgic arcade cabinets of Final Fight and Magic Sword . It gets you pumped and ready to dive right in. When you start one of the games, it boots up exactly as if an arcade machine turned on with text scrolling such as, “RAM OK.” You can choose from multiple screen settings to accommodate to the size and flavor you wish. The option to have the screen bordered to look like an arcade cabinet is by far the best setting, which again plays off the nostalgia of the gamers.
Final Fight: Double Impact is an 800-Microsoft Point trip to the past of two side-scrolling action games whose charm is in need of some serious polishing and dusting. With the resurrection of the. Final Fight: Double Impact. Download Alexa for your Windows 10 PC for free. Experience the convenience of Alexa, now on your PC. Download now. Related Video Shorts. Page 1 of 1 Start Over Page 1 of 1. Upload your video. Previous page. This page contains a list of cheats, codes, Easter eggs, tips, and other secrets for Final Fight: Double Impact for Xbox 360. If you've discovered a cheat you'd like to add to the page, or have a.
Both Final Fight and Magic Sword can be played with remastered background music or with its original music. However, with the remastered music, it really made me think why they had to stop there? The graphics do look much crisper in this double pack, which is very much welcomed. But maybe one day we can have something like a Final Fight HD Remix where every aspect has been redone.
Pausing is not an option for both titles, not even when pressing the Xbox button. The game continues to run as you’re working through the options, or looking through your friends list. It’s a cool way to keep the players focused, but maybe they went a bit too far with the arcade thing with this one.
However, even though you’re getting beat up while you’re eating, do you really care? The games give you infinite continues. Therefore, there is virtually no challenge with both titles. The game does have in-game achievements, such as “complete the game in under x amount of continues” that unlock pieces of artwork instead of gamerpoints or trophies. For players who don’t care for stuff like that, you may grow bored of the game quickly.
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What’s really great with Final Fight: Double Impact are the online features. You can play with friends and post high scores on leaderboards, which can keep you entertained for some time. There is also the option to have random players drop in and out of your single-player playthrough. Random players can join you while you’re in the middle of the game, and it is almost seamless.
Final Fight: Double Impact, with its robust options to play with old school settings, does have enough new content to keep things feeling fresh as well. For the price of basically $5 each game, it doesn’t get much better than this. There’s not much else to say about this one, fans of either game should go and download this now!
Title: Final Fight: Double Impact
Developer: Proper Games
Publisher: Capcom
Platform Reviewed: Xbox 360
Release Date: Available Now
Review Copy Info: A copy of this title was provided by the publisher to DualShockers Inc. for reviewing purposes
Developer: Proper Games
Publisher: Capcom
Platform Reviewed: Xbox 360
Release Date: Available Now
Review Copy Info: A copy of this title was provided by the publisher to DualShockers Inc. for reviewing purposes
System: X360, PS3 | Review Rating Legend | |
Dev: Capcom | 1.0 - 1.9 = Avoid | 4.0 - 4.4 = Great |
Pub: Capcom | 2.0 - 2.4 = Poor | 4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy |
Release: Apr. 14, 2010 | 2.5 - 2.9 = Average | 5.0 = The Best |
Players: 1-2 | 3.0 - 3.4 = Fair | |
ESRB Rating: Teen | 3.5 - 3.9 = Good |
It's undeniable that 1989's Final Fight is an arcade classic, and that every gamer should at least experience it at some point. After 20 years, it's still remarkably fun to walk the streets of Mad Gear Gang-infested Metro City, punching everything in your path, picking up knives and lead pipes to make the job easier, letting off the occasional special move, and saving your girlfriend (or daughter, or friend's girlfriend, depending on which character you pick) in the end. Final Fight still captures the feel of old Street Fighter games (it was originally called Street Fighter '89) in a beat-'em-up context.
It's especially nice not to have to reach for a quarter every time the bad guys get the best of you. Today, there's no need to spend half your paycheck helping the bulky, former wrestler Mayor Haggar, along with the quick Guy and the well-balanced Cody, rescue Jessica from the nefarious Mad Gear gangsters.
In today's retro-friendly world, though, fans have plenty of different options. Final Fight has been showing up on various compilations for years, and the Super Nintendo port is available on the Wii Virtual Console for $8. Is the $10 Final Fight: Double Impact, the new XBLA/PSN release from Capcom, the best way to go? And does Final Fight hold up so well that gamers have to own it instead of just playing the demo?
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There's a whole lot to say in this version's favor. The original arcade game is recreated perfectly (unlike in the Super Nintendo version, which leaves off multiplayer, includes some alterations to the levels, and excludes Guy as a playable character), and players can tweak countless settings to make the experience as faithful or as comfortable as they'd like. They can choose between the original aspect ratio (surrounded by an arcade cabinet, if desired) and widescreen, between the original music and well-done remixed tracks, and between original and HD-filtered visuals. It saves after each level, which is nice, even though the game isn't that long. There are various unlockables, such as concept art, that hardcore Final Fight fans will love.
Friends can play together, locally or online, drop-in/drop-out, and that's a huge plus. These button-mashers have always been a lot more fun (and manageable in terms of difficulty) with a friend, and everything about the multiplayer experience runs smoothly.
Perhaps the biggest reason to buy this version of Final Fight, though, is that it includes Magic Sword, a respected but underappreciated 2-D platformer/beat-'em-up from the same era. This is an incredibly detailed and relatively long arcade game with some great jumping puzzles, sword combat, and bosses. Players have to work their way through 50 floors, jumping over hazards, carefully taking out enemies, waging war against fearsome bosses, finding magical powers that increase their strength, and releasing prisoners (who in return help them fight). A sparse fantasy story pulls all the elements together, and after beating the final boss, you make a decision that leads to one of two endings.
Our biggest complaint is one we have with most ported arcade games: you're given unlimited continues, and without the punishment of having to spend another quarter, there's really no reason not to die. Capcom added specific challenges for you to meet in each level, such as beating certain enemies without using more than a certain number of continues, and both games have achievements and leaderboards, but the basic gameplay is drained of its tension. Even ramping up the difficulty doesn't help; you just use more continues.