Skirmish
SINGLE-HANDEDLY DEFEAT YOUR FRIENDS
With a single button, you control multiple characters and all their actions. Yet it can be learned within seconds. This makes it the ideal party game to play on a big screen.
WHOSE BLOOD IS THAT?
Hack, smash and blast through rows of enemies! Missing a leg? It’s but a flesh wound!
Chop until you drop!
MASTERY
Time your spins, rolls and attacks right to chop off limbs and be victorious!
OLD SCHOOL COUCH GAMING
Play through the co-op campaign to unlock new characters, arenas and factions; duel it out with 2-4 players in the arena mode or play a knock out tournament with unlimited participants!
EXPLORE, DISCOVER, ENCOUNTER
Travel across mountains and forests, swamps and settlements. Meet the locals - and wipe them out!
Some of them will join you on your conquest against evil.
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Double Dragon Trilogy
At this point in the history of the franchise, you either “get” Double Dragon, or you don’t. This is a side-scrolling beat-em-up in it’s purest and simplest form. You can punch, kick, jump, jump kick, and do a scant few other moves. The enemies you’ll face all have personality, but it’s of the behavior-based variety. The game is challenging, particularly on the Original and Expert difficulties, but can be finished in a short amount of time… even shorter if you become particularly skilled at the game and the nuances in it’s play.
– Real player with 19.6 hrs in game
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In theory this collection should be a great experience. That’s what I thought when I booted it up. As soon as I tried to adjust the resolution, the game proceeded to crash, forced me to verify files and turn off my virus protection as a content lock occured.
Once I got it back up and running with controls set comfortably on my 360 pad, it worked well. Well enough for what feels like a lazy attempt to wrap three arcade roms into a stand-alone executable.
The Time and Score text overlay is really weird and doesn’t mesh well with the rest of the visuals. The options feel kind of barebones, there’s no intro videos or explanations or anything for any of the games, nothing. People coming into this without knowing about the games will have no idea that you can do super moves, like hitting punch and jump together in DD1 for the game-breaking backwards elbow. Or how DD2’s controls are odd. Or how you can flipping run in DD3 by double tapping move (the previous two games didn’t have it, so unless you did this by accident how would you know?).
– Real player with 8.1 hrs in game
Alice Sisters
Since this game has no reviews yet and the launch discount is about to expire, let me give my thoughts, even though I like to get further than a fourth of the way through the game before reviewing games unless I run into a game-breaking issue, a puzzle I can’t figure out without a guide or bad controls. This is a great retro-style game. The mechanics are fun, unique, conducive to two-player co-op (not that anyone will be friends with me) and speedrun-friendly (not that I like speedrunners). The absence of temporary power-ups and collectibles such as coins or rings does make the game feel a bit dry, though, even if it is a common design choice in modern 2D platformers. However, it is fun to try to do things such as jump on an enemy from a spring or get through narrow tunnels an enemy also goes through without killing it. The music and graphics are beautiful, and Alice’s sprite is especially cute. However, I have a few gripes I feel prospective buyers should know about, even if not everyone has problems with them:
– Real player with 3.6 hrs in game
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Star Drift Evolution
Before you start reading the great wall of text: there is a FREE Demo of the game that you can download to see if you can run it (or if you just like it or not). I’ve got a friend who’s got a laptop with integrated graphics, and he was able to run this around 30-40 fps. Now, onto important stuff.
First off, here are the racing games I’ve played before Star Drift Evolution:
-Dirt 4 and Dirt 2.0
-WRC 7 and 8
-Forza Horizon 5 and Motorsport 6
-Distance
-Assetto Corsa and Competizione
-Project Cars 1 and 2
– Real player with 361.9 hrs in game
Simply the best of top down racers.
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Awesome driving and drifting feeling.
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Skill based despite its cute looks.
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Many cars. Brilliant 10 point system distributed between topspeed, acceleration, grip and downforce. There are no best car, just best suited for different tracks (except for the Firetruck and other goofy vehicles).
*Lots of varying tracks. Short, long, bumpy, tarmac, sand, ice, you name it. I personally like the short bumpy circuit tracks best.
Fun career mode, that keeps you coming back trying to improve your laptime.
– Real player with 129.0 hrs in game