Summary
There is a good reason it was never released in the US.
The Good
Absolutely nothing. I actually bought this game when it came out way back in 92 through a mail order company thinking it was going to be as good as the Arcade. WRONG. $50 pi**ed away. All that allowance up in smoke.
Its two player, but that just means you can annoy two players simultaneously. Crap.
The Bad
The graphics are some of the worst on the Genesis ever. It does not look like a 16 bit game. It looks like a Master System game. Seriously, the graphics are THAT bad. The NES version of Double Dragon 2 has better graphics than this.
The Genesis could have handled a good translation of this as evidenced by the conversion of Double Dragon and Double Dragon 3. The Streets of Rage series proves the Genesis can do Double Dragon style games. Streets of Rage 2, in particular, puts this sorry cart to shame.
This game was obviously rushed through production so that it would be ready to go so that Sega would have more arcade ports to compete with the Super Nintendo which had just come out in 1991. Not only are the graphics terrible, but it was obviously never tested by game players.
To be frank, this game should NEVER have been released. Its a joke and not worth of its namesake. Double Dragon 2 was a decent arcade game and did not deserve this disgraceful translation.
This game also has slow-down problems.
The Bottom Line
The NES version is better. I'd recommend Double Dragon, Streets of Rage, Streets of Rage 2, and Final Fight CD over this.
