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Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble!

You can play a movie action hero turned real action hero in Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble. Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble is a cel-shaded, side-scrolling action game that combines both puzzle-solving and…

75 2 November 2005

Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Clover Studio, released 2 November 2005 on Nintendo DS.

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What Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! is

Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Clover Studio and released in 2005. It was published by Capcom. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You can play a movie action hero turned real action hero in Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble. Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble is a cel-shaded, side-scrolling action game that combines both puzzle-solving and platformer gameplay. Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble makes use of both screens and the touch capabilities of the Nintendo DS to help you solve puzzles and progress through the game. Joe's sister, Jasmine, also makes her first appearance in the series to help him out.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and comedy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the Viewtiful Joe series

Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! is the fifth of 10 entries we hold in the Viewtiful Joe series. The next entry was Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Cross Generation of Heroes in 2008. Its critic score of 75 is 4 points below the series average of 79. The highest-rated entry is Viewtiful Joe at 90.

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How it was received

Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 1,125 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2005 averaged 67, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! launched on 2 November 2005, within three weeks of Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2 and Sid Meier's Civilization IV. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Shadow of the Colossus, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Call of Duty 2, Sid Meier's Civilization IV.

Cheats and codes

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When did Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! come out?
Viewtiful Joe: Double Trouble! was released on 2 November 2005 for Nintendo DS.

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