If you live in the U.S., you've probably been looking forward to today for a few weeks as Monday is Labor Day, which means three-day weekend! In case you were wondering what shenanigans you might get into during the long break, the folks over at Humble Bundle have compiled a selection of Capcom games for the PlayStation 3 and 4, while Microsoft is featuring an "Activision Franchise Sale" for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
You can take your immersive graphics, tantalizing story lines and abundance of polygons and cram them all into a giant sack and sink them into the ocean. Give me a side scrolling beat-em up any day. The Xbox One does not have that many of these to its name, but that is being cured by the likes of Final Fight: Double Impact getting the backwards compatible treatment.
Maybe you've been looking at picking up some Capcom titles on Xbox Live Arcade? You might want to wait until later this spring. The rather blandly-named Capcom Digital Collection is headed to retail release in late March. The disc bundles eight of Capcom's better downloadable offerings, several of which are co-op. 1942: Joint Strike, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2, Final Fight: Double Impact (pictured above), Flock!, Rocketmen: Axis of Evil, and Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 all feature co-op gameplay; for details, check out the links. Rounding out the set are two very popular games that lack co-op but are still pretty awesome: Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, and Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix.
Final Fight: Double Impact is on sale this week on Xbox Live Arcade bringing it's normal 800 price down to 400 . Half the price for double the game! Not a bad deal for a title we gave a solid 3.5 out of 5 on.
[Updated below] It seems like PSN users are almost required by Sony and Capcom to play co-op with their copies of Final Fight Double Impact. It turns out that Final Fight will not play on your PS3 if you are not connected to the network. Even if you're playing local multiplayer or single player, you're still required to have your PS3 connected to play.
Final Fight Double Impact represents a good value, with all sorts of nifty bells and whistles adding to the enjoyment of what is already a strong Co-Op Classic. Or, rather, TWO Co-Op Classics.
Capcom has announced price and release date info for Final Fight: Double Impact on the Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network. Final FIght Double Impact features two co-op classics; Final Fight and Magic Sword. These arcade titles from the 1990's were known for their side scrolling beat em up style.
Back int' day, when I was was knee high to a grasshopper I owned a copy of Final Fight on the Super Nintendo. Whilst the Sega fans were playing with their Streets of Rage 2, I was happy helping the likes of Cody and Haggar to fight against numerous dubiously dressed gangsters on the mean streets of Metro City. Co-Opt...
By way of the Capcom-Unity blog comes the most retro news of the day, and great news for fans of the old-school beat 'em up.
