History VideoGame / DDCrew

* OrnamentalWeapon: One of your enemies is a military-type who carries a large machine gun. At no point does he ever fire it, preferring to kick you instead. [[spoiler:Two of them DO drop down and fire away as a penalty for taking way too long to complete the cable car interior section of Stage 2 and the boss rush of Stage 7, and given that this instantly kills you, it's probably for the best that they don't use the guns much.]]

* OrnamentalWeapon: One of your enemies is a military-type who carries a large machine gun. At no point does he ever fire it, preferring to kick you instead. [[spoiler:Two of them DO drop down and fire away as a penalty for taking way too long to complete the cable car interior section of Stage 2, and given that this instantly kills you, it's probably for the best that they don't use the guns much.]]

* MegaCorp: Zero Corp appears to be one; Stage 4 has billboards for a VCR and an airline that bear the Zero name. [[spoiler:It quickly becomes clear they played a part the bombing, and the final level takes place in their headquarters.]]

* OffModel: Just ATTEMPT to explain the stance, anatomy, or terrifying facial expressions of the fifth boss.

* {{Expy}}: The Stage 6 boss (the guy who phoned in the amusement park bombing) sure does look a lot like a shorter, more garish version of [[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage Mr. X]], doesn't he? He even has a machine gun (albeit an assault rifle instead of a Tommygun).

-->SOME DANGERS ARE LESS EVIDENT BUT NONE-THE-LESS DEADLY...
-->"WHAT!"
-->"YO GOTTA BOMB IN YA PARK!!"
-->''*Amusement park explodes*''

-->"Shaddup already!"
-->"Huh! huh! Damn..."
-->"Shaddup already!"
-->"Huh! huh! EVERYBODY FUCK IT! (YEAH!)"

* Expy: The Stage 6 boss (the guy who phoned in the amusement park bombing) sure does look a lot like a shorter, more garish version of [[VideoGame/StreetsOfRage Mr. X]], doesn't he? He even has a machine gun (albeit an assault rifle instead of a Tommygun).

-->"You're in for some roughin'man!!"
-->"YOU! DIE!"
-->"Nobody passes me, ALIVE!"
-->"Take a load of this wild thang!"
-->"I'm comin' througggh!"
-->"Long time no see... FOREVER!"
-->"Everything has its rises and falls."

* MegaCorp: Zero Corp appears to be one; Stage 4 has billboards for a VCR and an airline that bear the Zero name. [[spoiler: It quickly becomes clear they played a part the bombing, and the final level takes place in their headquarters.]]

* OrnamentalWeapon: One of your enemies is a military-type who carries a large machine gun. At no point does he ever fire it, preferring to kick you instead. [[spoiler: Two of them DO drop down and fire away as a penalty for taking way too long to complete the cable car interior section of Stage 2, and given that this instantly kills you, it's probably for the best that they don't use the guns much.]]

-->"YA GOTTA BOMB IN YA PARK!"

* BossRush: The final level essentially is one, featuring all of the previous bosses, except the villain's apparent [[TheDragon Dragon]], who was the boss of the second-to-last stage.
* DualWielding: The final boss brandishes two katanas at once.
* ExcusePlot: Terrorists blow up an amusement park for the heck of it. Four badasses kick then their rears all across the city.
* GratuitousEnglish: Spoken with gusto.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: One stage ends with the heroes getting blasted off a building. They fall for hours and land on a bunch of crates, no worse for wear. Even more amusing is that if there's a third and a fourth player, they just crash on concrete.
* OrnamentalWeapon: One of your enemies is a military-type who carries a large machine gun. At no point does he ever fire it, preferring to kick you instead.

* SomebodySetUpUsTheBomb: The protagonist picks up his phone and does he hear? A BOMB ON YA PARK, that's what.

* {{Sampling}}: Rather blatant and uncredited sampling as well, even for 90s video game standards. Aside from the standard Music/JamesBrown samples of the time, the infamous "SHUT UP, ALREADY! DAMN!" is actually lifted directly from "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd9v8eJ_8Ow Housequake]]" by Music/{{Prince}}; who was notorious for rarely allowing samples, and there are vocals from Music/BobbyBrown's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k My Prerogative]]" in the second level theme. Even considering that ''D. D. Crew'' came out right before such blatant sampling [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc became illegal]], one has to wonder how Sega avoided a lawsuit over these samples.

* {{Sampling}}: Rather blatant and uncredited sampling as well, even for 90s video game standards. Aside from the standard Music/JamesBrown samples of the time, the infamous "SHUT UP, ALREADY! DAMN!" is actually lifted directly from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrCb8i3-DU Housequake]]" by Music/{{Prince}}; who was notorious for rarely allowing samples, and there are vocals from Music/BobbyBrown's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k My Prerogative]]" in the second level theme. Even considering that ''D. D. Crew'' came out right before such blatant sampling [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc became illegal]], one has to wonder how Sega avoided a lawsuit over these samples.

* {{Sampling}}: Rather blatant and uncredited sampling as well, even for 90s video game standards. Aside from the standard Music/JamesBrown samples of the time, the infamous "SHUT UP, ALREADY! DAMN!" is actually lifted directly from "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZrCb8i3-DU Housequake]]" by Music/{{Prince}}; who was notorious for rarely allowing samples, and there are vocals from Music/BobbyBrown's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cDLZqe735k My Prerogative]]" in the second level theme. Even considering that ''D. D. Crew'' came out right before such blatant sampling [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Upright_Music,_Ltd._v._Warner_Bros._Records_Inc. became illegal]], one has to wonder how Sega avoided a lawsuit over these samples.

* OrnamentalWeapon: One of your enemies is a military-type who carries a large machine gun. At no point does he ever fire it, prefering to kick you instead.

* AWinnerIsYou: Upon clearing the game, the bad guy lies slumped against a wall in defeat. "So crime doesn't pay after all", he says. Then it cuts to a short roll call of the heroes.

* NotTheFallThatKillsYou: One stage ends with the heroes getting blasted off a building. They fall for hours and land on a bunch of crates, no worse for wear. Even more amusing is that when there a third and a fourth player, they just crash on concrete.