Platform: Xbox One
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Price I Paid: £18
Woah! I'm reviewing a game that's recently came out! What in the world! Yeah, I bought the Rare Replay pack, how could I pass up on 30 Rareware games and for so cheap? Instead of reviewing each game individually I thought I'd just go over the package as a whole, that's not to say that I wont be going over some of the games individually in the future. So what've we got here? Well, it's a collection of 30 Rareware titles from the past 30 Years, we've got the classics like Banjo Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Jetpac, Killer Instinct and all that good stuff. Unfortunately absent is Goldeneye and the Donkey Kong series because of licensing issues but that's understandable and we'll forgive them.
All the games are very good control wise, not really anything I found blatantly bad about the games controls. Jet Force Gemini was given a new control scheme but since I haven't played the original version of the game so I didn't see the difference in controls when I played it. There's a lot of games on here that I was extremely excited to play, others I'd never heard of and others I just didn't want to play because they were either bad or uninteresting, such as anything Rare made after 2002.
Some of the titles like Banjo Kazooie are actually apart of the Xbox Compatibility Program thing so you have to install those games before you can play them, while some games are just apart of the Rare Replay disc. This honestly isn't that much of a problem, just takes up more hard drive space, and it means once I've finished some of those games I can un-install them.
So what's new graphically wise? Nothing, I don't think. I didn't notice any differences, there's probably been a few touch ups here and there but that's about it, nothing I've noticed. Some of the older games have some lovely borders around them of the game you're playing.
Something that was promised for the game is that there would be 10,000G worth of achievements. Many people have cried out that this is a lie. It is not. You have the 360 Games there which still have their achievements, there's 4,000G on the Rare Replay disc and the rest of the gamerscore is for the 360 ports. That's pretty naff but that's the way it is, still, for achievement hunters like myself it'll be a lot of fun.
Something new is the "Rare Revealed" section which allows you to view interviews, music, concept art and so on, you can unlock all this stuff by completing milestones, which are unlocked by doing certain things in the games. Every time you complete a milestone, you get a stamp and an achievement. Every game's first milestone was to play it, by which it means launch the game until the achievement pops and then exit back out, so that was nice.
I'm not sure what the milestones are leading up to, so far it's just unlocking Grant Kirkhope interviews, which is nice. (For those of you who don't know, Grant Kirkhope was the musical genius that made the soundtracks for Banjo Kazooie/Tooie, the Viva Piñata games, Perfect Dark and Cityville 2.)
Another new thing is the addition of "Snapshots" which are little challenges in each game, there's achievements linked to these, but if you aren't the best at old arcade games (like myself) then you may have some trouble with getting some of these snapshots accomplished. The games that are 360 standalone have some really cheap milestones, basically stating "Get X amount of Gamerscore" and that's all. Still, it's another incentive to get achievements, not that I needed one.
There is one small problem though. Jet Force Gemini, as of now, has a glitched achievement that will wipe your save data COMPLETELY, so until they fix it, steer clear of Jet Force Gemini.
It's great that Rareware have finally released something that isn't a Kinect game, albeit a re-release of some of their classic titles. If you can, then get this collection pack, there really isn't a reason not to buy this. Hell, they'll probably add more titles as DLC in the coming months or years. This is literally the best game collection I own.
Rare Replay gets a 10/10
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