Rare Replay

Literally just got this for 7 bucks. I just wanted to play Banjo-Kazooie and got this bundle cause it was cheaper than buying the XBLA version. I got a bit distracted by the other games and now i‘m seeing myself playing these classic games all the time. Literally the best deal ever

What can I say? It's a collection of 30 of the best games Rare has ever put out for $30. You can't go wrong here. I literally have nothing negative to say about this game except that I just don't like a few of the games. Which still leaves 27 or so games that are awesome. Probably the single best value for your money this generation. Even if this just had Conker's Bad Fur Day on it alone it would still be worth it as it retails for like $60-100 physical. If you like retro games, you would be stupid to not buy this.

I won't be reviewing the games themselves, but rather the implementation of them as a whole. Remember that you need at least 8GB to download this collection. The games previously released on XBLA will download one by one, and THEN Rare Replay itself will begin downloading. Once everything's done, you're ready to play. The old XBLA games will reboot in an Xbox 360 emulation. One issue is that there's no way to resize your screen, which means some of the text/games will be cut off. And now, on to my biggest complaint; the menus. They're incredibly slow and unresponsive. As a matter of fact, they're prone to FREEZING. I've had this happen on multiple occasions. It's incredibly frustrating to navigate, and a real shame they're so badly implemented. It makes the overall product/experience feel rushed. Other gaming collections like Namco Museum or Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection on the Xbox 360 do a FAR superior job in bringing those old games back with functional menus/UI and gives an overall smoother experience. Not so with Rare Replay. A bit disappointing, considering we've got stronger hardware to work with on the Xbox One.

Voici une compilation agréablement présentée, un véritable voyage dans le temps qui en matière de jeux vidéo va de la préhistoire jusqu’à nos jours ou presque. Il faut dire que Rare est l’un des rares développeurs qui ont survécu à la tourmente de ce monde sans cesse en mouvement, dans ce milieu où, on le sait, les empires et les succès se font et se défont au gré des faillites ou des rachats. On mesure l’évolution et le chemin parcouru en jouant ou en rejouant à ces reliques des années 80 -accessibles ici dans leur état d’origine- ces fossiles qui font bien rigoler maintenant mais qui émerveillaient déjà les gamins d’alors.Pour ma part, ce voyage m’a fait apprécier encore davantage les jeux d’aujourd’hui (très inégaux certes) et la formidable industrie qu’ils sont devenus : dire qu’ils étaient si « **** » avant, si chétifs, bricolés avec trois bouts de ficelle et un peu de chatterton… et deux types dans un garage, ça défie l’entendement. Bien sûr, les jeux de la décennie 2000-2010 de cette compilation ont souvent assez bien vieilli et le dépaysement est nettement moins grand mais on mesure là encore tous les progrès accomplis.Cela dit et ces lauriers quelque peu fânés -et nostalgiques- ayant été tressés, force est de reconnaître que Rare a rarement fait des bons jeux ou rien de vraiment valable à tout le moins et qu’il se sont spécialisés dans le domaine de l’enfance voire de la petite enfance depuis des lustres. Ainsi, il eut mieux valu qu’ils se fassent racheter par Nintendaube, le petit artisan moustachu beaucoup plus en phase avec leur approche généralement niaise et constipée.Nonobstant cet état de fait peu amène il est vrai, cette compilation s’avère très instructive et le moment s’avère ainsi, il me semble, bien choisi pour Rare de tirer sa révérence, lui le développeur du passé très décomposé. Cela étant, l’effet de surprise passé, on n’y revient certainement pas : les vieilles bouses (à faire vomir un bouc) ont fait leur temps, place aux nouvelles (bouses) des éditeurs modernes complètement à la masse ! (ou en majorité, hélas).

Bought this with a lot of **** loved playing Banjo,Blastcorp and even Sabre Wulf when they first came out.Even the more recent Kameo was the first 360 game I saw and IMHO remained one of the best games on the platform.I put the disc in with my 8 year old son who was expecting a treat to see what 'daddy used to play in the olden days'. However, the games were disappointing and just not up to modern **** instant death thing on the early games with no real reward very quickly put off my young **** controls on Blastcorps were not precise and a couple of minutes of the bullzozer jiggling all over the place was enough.Banjo and Kazooie Tooie was next and even that seemed very lame with features like 3d areas and flying, that were cutting edge then, appear ordinary in **** only one that really entertained myself and my son was **** has modern day quality and plays smoothly (was the plant the basis for Plants vs Zombies?).Overall a nice museum style nostalgia trip but the games have lost a lot of the cutting edge magic and appear meh now unfortunately :(