Capcom sent over word as to when their next retro release will be making its way to consoles. Final Fight: Double Impact, a pairing of classic beat-em ups Final Fight and Magic Sword, will be available to purchase April 14th on Xbox Live for 800 MS points and April 15th on PlayStation Network for $9.99.
Both games come with a variety of visual modes to play in, including one which bows out the screen like a classic CRT monitor in a real cabinet and adds all the scanlines and distortion inherent to the original arcade experience. It appears to be a damn good package, based on what we were shown January at CES.
Final Fight is all well and good but, seriously, I can't express how much of a value ten bucks is for Magic Sword. I've easily spent a hundred dollars in quarters on that game over the course of the last fifteen years, so this is going to save me a ton. If you have any love for side-scrolling or close quarters combat, this should be a must-buy.
Final Fight: Double Impact Brawls Its Way Onto Xbox Live and PSN in Mid-April! [Capcom-Unity]
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11:40 AM on 03.18.2010
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Im getting this for Magic Sword, love playing it on the Capcom Classics Collection on PSP.
However, I would love to see a Final Fight Collection. There have been so many versions that I think it deserves a compilation. Maybe even a Hyper version where they combine the best of all the versions into one title. There's the arcade version, the four SNES ones (gimped FF 1, FF Guy, FF2, FF3), FF One for the GBA, FF CD for the Sega CD, FF Revenge for the Saturn, the sub-par FF: Streetwise. Hop to it, Capcom.
Nicojay2, on a recent Giant Bombcast episode from GDC, Capcom reps said that Final Fight was there to draw in the crowds with a big name. They added Magic Sword as a bonus because they personally loved the game and wanted more people to play it.
Yes, have some.
<3 It's nice to see a game come out at that price again. I am loving Capcom more and more lately. <3