{"id":242948,"date":"2024-07-13T06:33:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T06:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/the-double-dragon-series-returns-yet-again-with-an-ultra-modern-tribute-to-the-original-game\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:14:48","slug":"the-double-dragon-series-returns-yet-again-with-an-ultra-modern-tribute-to-the-original-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/13\/the-double-dragon-series-returns-yet-again-with-an-ultra-modern-tribute-to-the-original-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Double Dragon series returns yet again with an ultra-modern tribute to the original game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-iframe-wrapper\" data-embed-anchor=\"c5329630-6b52-5d5a-a7ae-5d6f2ad805f7\">\n<div class=\"caas-iframe youtube\" style=\"padding-bottom:56%\" data-type=\"youtube\">\n<blockquote data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iQiA3sCuqIs?si=Adt53YwsIV5bOiDo\"><p><noscript><iframe title=\"\u300eDouble Dragon Revive\u300f - Announcement Trailer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iQiA3sCuqIs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I first started hitting arcades in the late &#8217;80s, and one of the first games I remember playing was the seminal 1987 beat-em-up <em>Double Dragon<\/em>. Probably not the most appropriate thing for a seven-year-old, but I pumped plenty of quarters into it and subsequently spent tons of time playing the NES port. After its late &#8217;80s \/ early &#8217;90s heyday, though, the Double Dragon series has gone through a number of weird iterations and revamps, and a new one based on the original game is set to arrive in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>Double Dragon Revive<\/em> is produced by Japanese developer \/ publisher Arc System Works, who acquired the rights to Double Dragon back in 2015 after the original developer Techn\u014ds went out of business. Unlike <em>Double Dragon Gaiden: Rise of the Dragons, <\/em>which was <a data-i13n=\"elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/new-double-dragon-game-trailer-promises-nostalgic-beat-em-up-thrills-175831891.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:released in 2023;elm:context_link;elmt:doNotAffiliate;cpos:1;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">released in 2023<\/a> and featured a very distinctive cartoonish style, <em>Revive <\/em>is leaning into an ultra-modern and more realistic vibe, relatively speaking.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me a bit of recent Street Fighter games; similarly, the characters look like they have a greatly expanded set of moves to bash through the waves of bad guys. There isn&#8217;t much detail on the game out there yet, though Arc System Works does note that this game isn&#8217;t a pure button-masher, saying that it &#8220;requires adaptation and variety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Visual style isn&#8217;t the only thing differentiating <em>Revive<\/em> from <em>Rise of the Dragons<\/em>. The 2023 game had ropuelike elements, 13 playable characters and a tag-team ability to let you swap between those characters. <em>Revive<\/em>, as the name suggests, will likely stick more to the tried-and-true Double Dragon formula. How much that&#8217;ll resonate with players in 2025 remains to be seen, but there are surely enough nostalgic kids from the &#8217;80s out there who will give this one a shot. It&#8217;ll be available for the PS4 and PS5, Xbox One and Series X\/S and on Steam.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/the-double-dragon-series-returns-yet-again-with-an-ultra-modern-tribute-to-the-original-game-142722631.html?src=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] I first started hitting arcades in the late &#8217;80s, and one of the first games I remember playing was the seminal 1987 beat-em-up Double<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}