Rare Replay
SCORE: 54
I am thankful Family Friendly Gaming purchased Rare Replay on the
Xbox One on Black Friday. This compilation disc contains thirty video
games. They are Battletoads, Banjo-Kazooie, Perfect Dark, Conker's Bad
Fur Day, Kameo Elements of Power, Killer Instinct Gold, Jet Force
Gemini, Blast Corps, Viva Pinata, Banjo-Tooie, Atic Atac, Battletoads
Arcade, Banjo-Kazooie Nuts & Bolts, Jetpac, Grabbed by the Ghoulies,
Perfect Dark Zero, Sabre Wulf, Cobra Traingle, Knight Lore, Gunfright,
Slalom, Viva Pinata Trouble in Paradise, R.C. PRO-AM, Jetpac Refuelled,
Digger T. Rock, Snake Rattle N Roll, Lunar Jetman, Solar Jetman, R.C.
PRO-AM II, and Underwurlde.
These games range from the old arcades all the way up to the Xbox 360.
The Viva Pinata games, Slalom, and R.C. PRO-AM games stick out as
stellar. There are a couple of macabre and morbid rated video games in
this collection. I noticed the majority of the games in Rare Replay
contain some form of violence. There are also few games that are
multiplayer in Rare Replay on the Xbox One.
When a family first installs Rare Replay on their Xbox One they receive
fifteen games. The other fifteen have to be downloaded from the
Internet. Four of them come with an update when the game is first
played, and nine others have to be downloaded one at a time. This can
really kill the Internet bandwidth for a family. I am not sure why
Microsoft went this out of touch with reality route. They should have
been considerate to families without a massive Internet plan. Discs are
big enough to hold the games too.
Not only do you need to download the Xbox 360 video games, you also have
to log into your profile. This control freak nature from Microsoft is
offensive on so many levels. The game has been paid for, why do we have
to jump through so many hoops? This is not the first time Microsoft has
been in trouble with being such a control freak over games consumers
have already paid for.
Besides the games there are two interesting additional sections in Rare
Replay. Oh before I forget the intro song is pretty cool, and about all
the new content added. There are videos on the games in Rare Replay.
There are also challenges that players can try to complete in a variety
of the games. Each challenge completed gives you a stamp. After enough
stamps you unlock one of the videos. Playing the games normally will
also give stamps. As well as completing in game objectives - like
beating the game.
The propaganda videos included in this emulation video game are very
interesting. I found out Conker was going to be a good game that was
safe for the entire family. Then the company made a major blunder and
decided to make it macabre and morbid. Which is a shame because they had
a great opportunity, and they fell on their face. I kept thinking I
wanted to see the original game without all the macabre and morbid
content. The same goes for what Banjo-Kazooie originally was going to
be. The original game sounded really cool. Alas we will probably never
see what the original ideas being developed into a real full and
complete game. I wish we could though. If Rare Replay had included the
original concepts - totally playable, well that would be cool.
- WMG
Graphics: 40%
Sound: 60%
Replay/Extras: 80%
Gameplay: 50%
Family Friendly Factor: 40%
System: Xbox One
Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios
Developer: Rare
Rating:
'E - M' – Everyone to Mature
{Violence, Blood, Language, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco, Mature Humor}
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