SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection (A.K.A Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection in USA) is a compilation of 90's classic video games, developed by Backbone Entertainment, and published by SEGA for PS3 and X360.
This collection contains 40 Mega Drive games plus 8 unlockable games from previous Arcade and Master System. It has Sonic the Hedgehog, Street of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi 3, Vectorman, Ristar, Super Thunder Blade, Alien Storm and more of the classics games in the whole collection.
I'm glad I have this collection to play it on my PS3 because I love the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive back in 90's gaming childhood with excellent games title to play with, so it is worth price from the game store with 48 games are perfect for video game collectors, who grew up playing classics from the 90's.
So lets get the blast processing ready to go on my blog review, shall we.
Presentation
This game collection has really interesting presentation on museum menu because it's showing the history of the games and images of game case and cartridge. It has 40 games on the list, which you can rate the game out of 5 to see which ones are your favourites and which ones you did not like the game.
In extra options, you can watch all the interviews videos from the original game developers are quite useful to hear about their experience in developing games.
I say I like the whole presentation of this game showing the interesting history, cool images and watching interview videos about the development.
Gameplay
The gameplay plays fantastic because you have the options to change the control schemes in order to make the gameplay overall becoming playable, so you can turn on ABC mode for classic controls methods or you can customised the controls in different buttons placement to make the controls played right for you to enjoy your experience in each games.
You can save game by going to options and using the save state is quite helpful for players to save the game, so you can continue the game where you left off by loading the game from load state without having to start over again.
I did enjoy the games like Sonic 2, Shinobi 3, Street of Rage 2, Columns, and Golden Axe are quite playable with no problems at all, while the others like Alien Storm is a decent game for Mega Drive version, but on this version, sometimes I hate it when the game started to froze randomly on mission 5 or 6 and I had to quit the game from the options menu, but it does not freezes the game a lot because I'm managed to complete the game in time.
Overall, it's still plays good with the nice addition of customising controls and having the save features.
Graphics
The graphics are really fantastic for all original Mega Drive games because you can change the screen ratios to make the screen size bit bigger to fit well on your HDTV size, which doesn't make the whole game goes out of shape and colours.
The game graphics look very polished and detailed on HD screen because it cleans all the images and pixels to make the game look neat as possible without any flaws.
I say the graphics still has the classic remarks, even it's running on HD making it look perfect for all classics games.
Music and Sounds
I say the music from the intro and game list menu is somewhat pretty decent, but I also like the music from the game like Sonic 2, Street of Rage 2, Shinobi 3, Golden Axe, Comix Zone, Decap Attack, and others games still has the same sound engines as the original Mega Drive, which making the sounds emulation more original without any issues at all. The sound effects is sounds pretty good too for Mega Drive games, but I say the music and sounds from Space Harrier for this version is sounds little bit off compared with original arcade machines sounds better, but at least this version still sounds like from the original arcade game, but not accurately perfect.
I say this music and sounds are still in the good shape, which is quite promising enough, so I like it.
Special Feature
This collection offers unlockable interviews videos and 8 unlockable games on extra menus. It has the history of the game, and the gallery of the game cases and cartridge is still cool to check it out.
It has unlockable trophy achievements to gain more challenge for some of the classic games to collect the unlockable trophy, which is nice touch on this collection.
Advantages
Playable gameplay
Customisable controls
Save features
40 games in 1 collections
Very original graphics for HDTV
Unlockable stuff
Nice presentation
Disadvantages
Sometimes randomly freezes the game, but not a lot.
Music and sounds from Space Harrier not sound 100% accurate compared with original arcade machines.
There are some missing good games like Revenge of Shinobi, Gunstar Heroes, Outrun, and Super Hang On that didn't make it on the collection, which is quite shame, but it would have been nice to included on this collection, why not SEGA?
Final Verdict
Presentation 8/10 - Great history of the games, images of game cases and cartridge, and interesting interview video.
Gameplay 8/10 - Playable gameplay, customisable control, and save features.
Graphics 9/10 - Configuration video settings and very original graphics running on HDTV.
Music and Sounds 8/10 - Great soundtrack from the game, decent music from intro and game list menu, and some good sound effects from the game.
Special Features 8/10 - Unlockable 8 games, museums gallery and history, and unlockable interview videos.
Overall 8/10 - SEGA Mega Drive Ultimate Collection is the awesome gaming collection. It has really good games library to enjoy the classics are worth playing. I say the video game collector will love playing old school games from the past because you never get bored of playing these games, so this is highly recommended for everyone, those who don't have the Mega Drive/Genesis or haven't played these games for long time since 90's, should able to get this collection for cheaper prices because it is worth for buying this game.
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