Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls
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| Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls | |||||
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive | |||||
| Publisher: Tradewest | |||||
| Developer: Leland Interactive Media | |||||
| Sound driver: GEMS | |||||
| Genre: Action | |||||
| Number of players: 1-2 | |||||
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Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls is a 1994 arcade action game developed by Leland Interactive Media and published by Tradewest for the Sega Mega Drive. It was also released for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and Atari Jaguar. Unlike most games in the Double Dragon franchise it is a one on one fighter similar to Street Fighter II. It is based on the Double Dragon television series which was airing at the time the game was released.
Gameplay
The game plays similarly to Street Fighter II' as 
jumps and pressing away from the opponent will block incoming attacks. There are three punch buttons and three kick buttons which must be toggled between on a 3-button controller by pressing START or are available immediately on a 6-button controller. The three punch and kick buttons comprise of weak, medium, and strong attacks. Using combinations of buttons can trigger special moves such as fireballs and thrust attacks. There are also finishing moves called "Overkills" which is a basic attack that triggers a unique death animation.
Four game modes are available. This includes Tournament Mode (Arcade single player Mode), Vs. Battle (2 player vs. mode), Quest Mode (Story mode), and Battle Demo Mode (Watch 2 CPU opponents battle).
Characters
There are twelve available characters of which two are hidden. Of the twelve Bones, Sekka, Blade, and Dominique are original characters that never appeared on the television series.
- Billy Lee
- Blade
- Bones
- Countdown
- Dominique (Secret playable character)
- Icepick
- Jawbreaker
- Jimmy Lee
- Sekka
- Shadow Master (Secret playable character and final boss)
- Sickle
- Trigger Happy
Physical Scans
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Double Dragon (1988) |
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Double Dragon II: The Revenge (1991) | Double Dragon (1992) | Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (1992/1993) | Battletoads/Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team (1993) | Double Dragon V: The Shadow Falls (1994) |
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Double Dragon (1993) |
- ↑ 1700 igr dlya Sega, "" (RU; 2001-xx-xx), page 61
- ↑ Game Players, "Vol. 7 No. 10 October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 112
- ↑ GamePro, "October 1994" (US; 1994-xx-xx), page 56
- ↑ Sega Pro, "November 1994" (UK; 1994-10-06), page 70
- ↑ Sega Mega Drive Review, "1" (RU; 1995-04-03), page 44
- ↑ Tricks 16 bit, "Tricks Sega Gold 800 igr" (RU; 1998-03-20), page 53
- ↑ Video Games, "11/94" (DE; 1994-10-26), page 115
- ↑ VideoGames, "November 1994" (US; 1994-1x-xx), page 114