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Distributor: SEGA Classification: PG Review Date: February 2009 Reviewer: Jye Nelson |
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It’s amazing that video games have such a diverse history and thankfully SEGA have acknowledged their amazing gaming history in this awesome compilation of classic games entitled the SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection. The SEGA Mega Drive was truly a revolutionary console system that was first released in Japan in 1988, followed by the United States 1989 and the rest of the world in 1990. Needless to say, this powerful console introduced the world to a variety of wonderful gaming characters and series that include Sonic the Hedgehog and Knuckles, Ecco the Dolphin and Alex Kidd.
List of Games included in SEGA Mega
Drive Ultimate Collection
As there are a variety of different
genres in this collection, each genre handles quite differently from
the next. For example, Shinobi is a side scrolling arcade game that
has the player hacking and slashing through an almost unending line
of Ninja, whereas Streets of Rage is your more traditional 2D
fighting game and then if you throw in Ecco the Dolphin, it’s a
surreal arcade experience where the gamer plays a dolphin. As you
can see, variety is the spice of life! As you progress with the games, unlockable special features are soon available that include interviews from the developers and some great retro artwork of these games. Another impressive feature of the SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection is that you can play with another player which is quite “arcade-esq” at times and allows for some great cooperative fun, unless you are playing one of the fighting games.
Graphically, these games cannot be
compared to the games of today due to the advance of gaming since
the release of this console. The developers who were in charge of
porting these games to the XBox 360 and the PlayStation 3 created a
rather ingenious graphically filter that smoothes out the graphics
and actually looks quite impressive on our high definition Panasonic
LCD. Each of the 40 different games on this collection are quite
diverse and each has their own pros and cons from amazing gaming
worlds, colourful characters and some great retro special effects
that assisted in what the world of gaming is today. The bad thing is
that everything is pixel heaven. |