Double Hawk

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Double Hawk

Publisher: Sega

Genre: Shooting^[1]

Number of players: 1-2

Release	Date	RRP	Code
EU	1990		7036
PT	199x
UK	1990	£29.9929.99^[2]^[3]	7036
AU	199x
AU (Hero Pack)	199x		FHER03SEC

Double Hawk is a third-person shooting game for the Sega Master System.

Story

In the early 1990s, a group of international terrorists is terrorizing innocent people worldwide. Two seasoned commandos, John Jackson and Jack Thomas, go into battle to eradicate the threat.

Gameplay

Double Hawk is a rail shooter game that plays similarly to the arcade game Cabal. The game is shown from a third-person perspective, with the commandos appearing on the bottom of the screen while enemies run across the top of the screen like a shooting gallery. The commandos are armed with machine guns, and players must guide their crosshairs to eliminate waves of enemies, which include foot soldiers, armored vehicles, and helicopters. Missions are divided into four scenes, and each scene is a single backdrop with no scrolling. The first three scenes of a mission end when the timer, shown as a bar in the top center of the screen, is completely emptied, and the last scene is a boss encounter. The game supports two-player cooperative play, with player one controlling John (who resembles John Rambo) and player two controlling Jack.

Each commando can move along the bottom of the screen with and , which also moves the crosshair relative to the commando. The crosshair can be moved independently of the commando by moving the D-Pad while holding . Commandos can collect hand bombs (grenades), which are aimed using the same crosshairs and thrown with . Bombs do more damage, and they especially effective against vehicles.

The player loses a life when the commando is shot by an enemy. In two-player games, if a commando is shot when the player has no extra lives left, the player uses the other player's lives. The game ends if both players run out of lives but can be continued from the beginning of the current mission (with the score reset).

Items

Items are sometimes dropped by enemies and can be collected by moving over them.

	B
	Gives the commando 10 hand bombs (grenades) that can be lobbed at enemies with . Each player can carry up to 99 bombs.
	F
	Increases the speed of the commando's movement and the targeting reticle for the rest of the mission.
	R
	Temporarily equips the commando with a rapid-firing machine gun, which shoots faster.
	S
	Temporarily equips the commando with a shotgun, which has a wider targeting reticle and area of effect.