Double Dragon III is a primitive failure and it's a disapointing addition to an otherwise great series.
Of the NES games I own, this is by far the worst. Heck, it's the only bad NES game I have. Batman is nothing special, but hey at least it's fun. This game is not fun and it is not a nice game. So why am I writing this? To warn you about this game.
I saw this game and I liked Double Dragon games so I was like, "Cool, I didn't even know they had a third in the series!" (That's because it's crap.) Plus, it had cool looking box art. So I got this game and that is when all hell on earth began.
I put it in my NES when I finally got a new one and some power cords and I was playing it. This game sucks. This game is so hard that the first level in this game is about as hard as the last level in the first Double Dragon.
The movement is stiff, the game doesn't have much variety. You can punch, kick, spin kick (where you and kick) and one where you smash their heads with your knee. I didn't ge tthe manual so I just mashed the d-pad and the buttons to do the spin kick. I still don't know the exact way. It's also hard because you're always getting ganged up on. Unless you're in co-op, you'll be fighting 2-4 guys coming at you and it's not easy. Your character moves kindof fast but he punches and kicks slow and they'll gang up on you until you die. I haven't beat this game because it's so fricking hard.
To top that off, you only get one life. One fricking life. You can get new characters but the one I got sucked. Big time.
The graphics and sound are pretty average. I don't really have any complaints there. They didn't really impress me and they weren't crappy either. Just kind of average. The sprites are in cartoon but the backgrounds look decent. The music does get repetitive and the sound effects are nothing to brag about.
This game has little to no value. I didn't even want to play through this entire game. Now you can judge me wrongly for reviewing a game before I have beaten it but I just didn't feel the need to play this game. It was boring and it's just a mean addition and killed the series. This is why we haven't seen a Double Dragon game in recent times.
This game sucks and I want you to know this. I'll warn you about more games in the future.