The next entry in the side-scrolling action game series Double Dragon is finally here!The story picks up after the elimination of the Shadow Warriors in Double Dragon II!Experience all-new exhilarating action with the original old-school graphics!Use the art of Sou-Setsu-Ken to rescu. Double Dragon IV. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Double Dragon IV (Japanese: ダブルドラゴン ⅳ, Hepburn: Daburu Doragon IV) is a beat 'em up video game in the Double Dragon series for PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch.
Billy and Jimmy Lee, as depicted on the packaging artwork of Double Dragon Advance. Their poses in this image were modeled after the fight between and in. For most of the series, players take control of martial artist Billy Lee, who battles against various adversaries such as gang members and rival fighters. He is often assisted by his elder twin brother Jimmy Lee, who usually serves as the second player's character in most of the games. The Lee brothers are characterized as successors of a fictional martial art known as Sōsetsuken ( 双截拳, 'Twin Sever Fist', also known as Sōsaiken), which combines techniques from other styles such as, and.The duo were actually unnamed when the original arcade game was initially released in Japan, although the names Hammer and Spike were given to them in the cabinet and promotional flyer produced by for the overseas version. The names Billy and Jimmy Lee were first established in the Famicom/NES version of the first game and consequently used in other console versions and tie-in products, such as The Original Sound of Double Dragon soundtrack album, but were not actually used in the arcade versions until. Billy Lee's name comes from a combination of 's last name with the first name of his character Billy Lo from the movie, while Jimmy is named after musicianBecause of the differences between the arcade and console versions of the games, the designs of the Lee brothers tend to vary throughout the series.
While the original arcade game has Player 1 controlling a blond-haired Lee brother dressed in a blue outfit and Player 2 as a brown-haired brother in red, the NES version had their hair and outfit colors switched around: Billy was now the brown-haired brother in blue, while Jimmy became the blond-haired brother in red. Was the first game to have the Lee brothers sport different hairstyles during gameplay, with Billy being given a laid down hairstyle and Jimmy a spiky flat top, a design convention adopted by later games such as and the smartphone versions, although some of the promotional art and in-game visuals for the earlier games (such as the ending photograph of and the story sequences/character portraits of ) had already depicted the Lee brothers with differing hairstyles. Other games, such as the and, depict the Lee brothers as identical twins like in the first arcade game.The two brothers are shown to be romantically interested in a young woman named Marian, a student in their dojo. The arcade version of the first game (along with most console versions) can end with both brothers fighting each other over Marian if two players reach the end together, with the survivor ultimately winning Marian's affections.
The Famicom/NES version, which establishes Marian to be Billy's long-term girlfriend, changes the story so that Jimmy was actually the leader of the Black Warriors (a change made as a result of the lack of two-player cooperative play in that version) and was the one who orchestrated Marian's kidnapping.Enemy characters The enemy organization in the original Double Dragon are the Black Warriors gang, who are characterized as the dominant criminal organization in after a nuclear war has left the city deprived of any law and order. Much like the Lee brothers themselves, the names of the gang members were established throughout the console versions of the series. The gang's original leader is the machine gun-toting Willy Mackey (commonly known simply as Willy), who wishes to acquire the knowledge of the Lee brothers' martial arts for himself and orders the kidnapping of Marian as ransom.
Recurring members of the gang throughout the various versions of the first game include the thugs Williams and Rowper, Linda, and bald strongman Abobo. The arcade version also featured two unnamed of other characters (namely of Abobo and the Lee brothers) as end-stage bosses: although these characters were absent in the NES version, which instead introduced a unique enemy, a Chinese martial artist named Chin Taimei. The Lee brother head swap would later appear in the Mark III/Master System version released by Sega, where he was named Jeff.The name of the gang would change in later games.
While the arcade version of Double Dragon II: The Revenge had Willy and the Black Warriors retaliating against their earlier defeat by gunning down Marian, the Famicom version replaced Willy with a nameless fighter who led a mysterious armed group following the dissolution of the original Black Warriors. While unnamed in the Japanese version, the English localization of the NES version would refer to this organization as the Shadow Warriors (or the Black Shadow Warriors in the manual), a name later used for an unrelated enemy group in Super Double Dragon, as well as Willy's own gang in Double Dragon Advance. The Shadow Warriors was also the name of the villain group in the Double Dragon animated series and its tie-in game, where they consisted almost entirely of new characters.The names Williams and Rowper were derived from the characters played by and respectively in the movie. Other character seem to follow a similar naming convention such as Linda, who shares her name with Bruce Lee's widow, and the enemy character Bolo from Double Dragon II: The Revenge, who shares his name with actor. Gameplay The gameplay in most of the games takes place in a pseudo 3D perspective like in and later beat-'em-ups, in which the player character can move in four directions but are always facing left or right. The player can perform a variety of unarmed fighting techniques against their enemies, as well use melee weapons such as baseball bats and throwing knives normally obtained from enemies.
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