Rare Replay is en route to Xbox One and it'll contain 30 titles from Rare's impressive back catalogue.
While most of the titles were from an era well, well, well before downloadable content was even a consideration, a couple of them - Kameo, Perfect Dark Zero, and Viva Pinata - come from a slightly more modern age. This has led gamers to wonder if Rare Replay will come with their respective DLC, or if they'd be charged for it.
Rare have taken to the old twitterbox to confirm that put people's minds at rest. They've confirmed that all "game-centric DLC" (so story add-ons and the like) will be included, although a few "vanity item" like pieces (costumes, etc.) may not make the cut.
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Hopefully, that'll cause some folks to rest easier.
Rare Replay launches on August 4th, exclusively for Xbox One.
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Rare Replay is an interesting bundle. Apart from a few games, I have owned the majority going back to their first game. I kind of wish some were remade and/or reimagined/rebooted for the modern age - particularly their Knightlore games. It will be interesting to see how these have stood the test of time.
What pleases me most is seeing some of the N64 games - particularly Blast Corps and Jet Force Gemini - another 2 games I would love to see re-booted for the modern era.
Nice to see that where applicable though all content will be provided...
I wonder if the likes of PDZ, Viva Pinata and Kameo will just be using the backwards compatibility feature and if not will they still be compatible with 360 saved games?
@stylon I'm under the impression that's exactly what they're doing. You choose one of those three games from the Rare Replay menu, and it drops you out to the My Games and Apps section and fires up the relevant backward-compatible version.
As far as I've been told, anyway. Might be wrong!
@SuperKMx That's great news - thanks
Cannot wait too play Atic Atac, Knightlore and Sabre Wulf on my Xbox One. My inner 9 year old finds this simply mind blowing. Just saddened that Alien 8 missed out too Gunfright and that none of the Commodore 64 games (especially Entombed & Blackwyche) made the cut. It simply is one of the best releases of 2015. Now perhaps someone could suggest to Jeff Minter and Tony Crowther that they compile similar collections....
@SuperKMx hmmm that's an interesting take on how it works...but then how will the the Rare Replay specific features work? Like game rewind? Also strange that that would only apply to those specific games. Whereas everything else boots natively within the game?
Personally I'd have thought people would prefer it didn't work that way so they can double up on achievements.
@flameboy84 I've no idea how the Rare Replay specific features would work with them, but I can see the logic behind it all.
End of the day, if you're repackaging the games to work as backwards compatible titles on the system, I guess it saves time to just access those, rather than repackaging them again to work within the confines of Rare Replay. Like I say though, I might be totally wrong! I just heard it worked that way from someone at E3.
This is a piece of gaming history right here. I feel obligated to buy it just on that premise alone, besides the fact it's 30 games for $30, well, $23.99 for me through Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked.
This game has "Buy me" written all over it.
I have this pre ordered!
The $30 price point for this collection is beyond ridiculous.......in a good way. So much value here. Even if some of the games (especially the 360 ones) are hit-or-miss, there is bound to be at least a few games here that almost everyone can enjoy.
It's a shame that GoldenEye can not be included. To me, that is one of the most important console FPS of all time.
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