The quick quipping brothers never shut up dropping cheeseball one-liners and spouting tough guy clichГ©s that send your head spinning back to the 80s on a wild video game Wurlitzer ride. Keeping each other alive is about as co-operative as any game can get, and a skilful, dedicated duo will push much further into the game than the button mashing loner could ever hope.Д®verything about this new rendition of the first ever co-op beat-вЂem-up is dripping in ultra-stylish neon (and weвЂ™re not just saying that because of the gameвЂ™s title). This even goes as far as Jimmy kneeling down behind a bad guy while Billy pushes him over top notch slapstick mixed with top notch slapping.ДЇamiliar scenes from the original are plentiful, with a new lick of digital paint.ДЄnd speaking of slapping, that essential co-operative element has been further enhanced in Neon by allowing the brothers to not only whip out two-person moves, but to share energy through a very American high-five. Grabbing is still a great tactic, just as it was in the original, and for the most part the game takes care of jazzing up a throw or a grab depending on whatвЂ™s going on around you. The controls are superbly balanced so as to deliver brief, effective combos scattered amongst a whirlwind of fast punches and faster kicks. But by the same token, youвЂ™re not required to be a brain surgeon to pull out all the excellent street fighting moves that are laced throughout Double Dragon Neon. I wouldnвЂ™t want to call this a button masher, because it does offer a skill level that elevates it way above that fighting game faux pas. As before, Marion is sucker punched in the gut and carted off by Skullmageddon and his gang (replacing the machine gun-wielding Big Boss Willy), and you, and a buddy ideally, set off on an arse kicking quest to get her back. This is still a side-scrolling 2D fighting game, which swaps out the hand-drawn sprites for 3D characters with far smoother animation, but the gameplay core is essentially the same. In many respects Double Dragon Neon poses two questions: Is the game any good from a contemporary standpoint, and does it do justice to such mighty lineage? Both very relevant questions.

Twenty five years after I poured pounds upon pounds into the Double Dragon coin-ops on Blackpool front, the Lee brothers have been reborn in what promises to be one of the very, very few home adaptations thatвЂ™s actually any good. I genuinely harbour feelings for this game that verge on being worryingly wrong.Д¬lassic weapons, such as the boulder, are bolstered now by destructible scenery.ДЄnd now itвЂ™s back. While others bleat about Mass Effect or Metal Gear or that Block Ops game, I cling voraciously to the past and demonstrate my fearless gaming authority by obsessing over 1988вЂ™s beat-вЂem-up epic, Double Dragon. Well, thatвЂ™s how I am with Double Dragon. It separates them from Star Wars nuts and Trekkies, and gives them the edge they need to make nerd-dom look awesome. You know how some nerds get all overexcited about a Battlestar Galactica appearance at a convention, or queue for hours to get a comic book signed by an artist who youвЂ™ve never heard of, or go to midnight screenings of Joss WhedonвЂ™s stuff? ItвЂ™s all about elevating yourself above the common geekery by choosing a slightly, less mainstream franchise to fixate on.

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