You’ve got some Sonic games, the Streets of Rage series, Altered Beast (useful to load up once, remind yourself how incomparably awful it is, and never load it up again), the two Toejam & Earl games, the two Column games, predictable entries from Shinobi and Golden Axe - pretty standard stuff. Related: Smoke and Sacrifice Review: Drain The Swampįor buyers looking to fill out their gaming den with the sounds and sights of Nintendo’s cutthroat 16-bit competitor, Sega Genesis Classics should fulfill most of your needs.
There are a few other sore spots, like the unusual approach to challenges and trophies, a bland-yet-functional overlay, and the somewhat unreliable (but at least existent) online multiplayer features. While here we have the most pack-in games for a release like this one yet - 53 titles in total are featured in Sega Genesis Classics - there are significant omissions, but the surprises might smooth out most player gripes. The major, inescapable problems with this release will arguably be familiar to owners of similar bundles, like Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection, which came out for the previous console generation: game selection.
Another console generation means another Sega Genesis collection, and most players looking to pick up Sega Genesis Classics for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, or Mac probably have an idea of what they’re looking for.
