Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (Dos)

Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone is the third and last part of the Double Dragon series on the PC, no longer having the “spirit” of the parts of the previous ones.

The plot, unlike the first two games, is very strange and incomprehensible: the brothers, returning from the martial arts championship, learn from a fortuneteller about a terrible evil in Egypt, which only they can stop, but before that it is necessary to visit other countries (Italy, Japan ) Not very clear, in a word.

In this game, the role of bonuses has sharply increased - now there are entire stores where you can buy weapons and all kinds of “power-ups” that can temporarily give our heroes increased strength, stamina and speed. But the bonuses “just like that” that lie on the road, you have to forget - here you can only collect money from the bodies of dead enemies, and then look for a place where you can buy something on them. It is clear that this is more realistic, but here it is clearly not in favor. The combat system of the second part is abolished, again returned to simple single strikes of the first.

The graphics improved again, the characters and backgrounds are drawn very clearly and beautifully, and sometimes there is even a hint of three-dimensionality, but it does not bring much joy. If we consider this game simply as an independent work of the arcade genre, then you can evaluate it at least above average, but as a continuation of the great series - alas, one disappointment.