Double Kick Heroes Review

Posted: 13 months ago, last updated 6 days ago.

Overview

Double Kick Heroes is a heavy metal rhythm game. You tap buttons in time to the music to lead your band through the zombie wasteland. It revolves around the "double kicking" drumming technique. When you get this right you can speed up the music.

You play the different band members: Lincoln, Snake, Derek, Randie and James. Each one is different to play, with different abilities and power. As you play you find out each of their back stories to being in the band.

There are a total of 50 songs (30 in the main story and 20 in hellgate mode) in the game. You can also import your own music on PC, play community designed tracks or even edit your own songs and share challenges.

Game Details

Content Rating: PEGI 16

Release Date: 11/12/2018

Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One

Genres: Action, Creative, Fighting and Rhythm

Accessibility: 22 features

Developer: @HeadBang_Club

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Commitment

Duration: This game will take between 7 hours and 10 hours to complete. Creating your own music and trying the community challenges extends the duration considerably.

Players: This is a single player game. There's a novel motion controlled option on the Switch game where you play with two sets of Joy-cons; one in each hand, and one tucked into each sock.

Other controllers are supported on Xbox and on PC you can use most mini adaptors.

Costs

Double Kick Heroes usually costs £18.49 to £19.79.

Double Kick Heroes

Xbox One	£18.49	–	Free Xbox Game Pass
Switch	£19.79	–	–
PC	–	–	Free Xbox Game Pass

Does not offer in-game purchases, 'loot boxes' or 'battle/season passes'.

Age Ratings

Content Rating

Rated PEGI 16 for Strong Violence, Strong Language.

User-Generated Content: This game includes content created by other players, such as maps, outfits and items, that are not reflected in the game rating.

Accessibility

The higher difficulty the more instruments you have to control and the more buttons you need to press in time. You can customise the difficulty by changing the music speed and removing all enemies.

You can play with motion controls on the Switch, shaking the controllers in time with the beat. You can also add additional Joy-Cons (perhaps strapped to legs) to enable play with up to four rhythm tracks.

Our Double Kick Heroes Accessibility Report documents 22 accessibility features:

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