Dual Heroes

"A poor excuse for a fighting game."

Dual Heroes for the Nintendo 64 - Review by Leigh Cartwright.

1/10 - A disgrace to fighting games everywhere.

This is the exact reason why Nintendo 64 cartridges were made to be able to fit under your door, but not the reason why the N64 itself was made. The PSX has a plethora of below average fighting titles, the Saturn had no great fighting games and the Nintendo 64 has Dual Heroes.

Do not look at the cartridge, for it will cause blindness. If GameFAQs said I could use -7/10 for a rating - I would. Until you have played this game, you cannot understand how BAD it is. On saying that, never play this game.

Have you ever seen those things that say ''If you enjoyed this game, you'll also like...''? Well, if you enjoyed Dual Heroes, you will probably enjoy games of similar enjoyment levels such as thumb-twiddling. Then again, if you enjoyed this game, you will never be able to restrain yourself when you play games like Tekken 3.

No video game (that I can remember) was ever as bad as Dual Heroes. The game's (quite awful) graphics are set out perfectly by the woeful intro. By the time you get past the awful menu screens, you realise that the gameplay is also disgraceful. You can kick, and punch, and perform button bashing to the levels not seen since a five year old mass murderer started playing Street Fighter in the arcades. And the unresponsiveness of the controls will make you think that your controller is not working. But you'll soon realise its the game.

Do not listen to the sound. The music (if you can even call it that) is synthesised to the max, and downright poor. And if you turn the volume down, you should be close enough to your console rip the game out of the fine cartridge slot on top of your N64. The multiplayer mode is even worse - two players only is bad enough, but the framerate is slower and choppier. Then you have the debacle over the rumble pak - the game is not compatible with the rumble.

If chimpanzees designed this game, then it would still be a poor effort. Apparently it was designed by humans, so there seem to be some serious problems over at Nintendo with the people who were in charge of this weak excuse for a game. How this game ever made it outside of Japan remains a mystery to me. In fact, how the hell did it make it out of the early development stages - surely someone must have realised how awful it was.

The sound will send you deaf, the graphics will send you blind, the gameplay will send you insane and the game will send you back to the store where you had just wasted your hard earned money 2 hours previously. This game really is as bad as people say it is.

Reviewer's Score: 1/10, Originally Posted: 08/30/01, Updated 08/30/01