Rare Reveals Five New Battletoads Facts
British game studio Rare has put out a new video in their Rare Revealed series, this one about the making of the Battletoads series. Five new secrets are told from the mouths of the original staff.
British game studio Rare has put out a new video in their Rare Revealed series, this one about the making of the Battletoads series. Five new secrets are told from the mouths of the original staff.
August isn’t always a bumper month for gamers but it does traditionally see one of the the release of one of the biggest games of the year in the US with the yearly entry of Madden hitting store shelves. However, there are a variety of releases this month, including some old favorites and a collection of new titles that are sure to be successful and fun.
When Rare Replay was revealed at this year’s E3 during the Microsoft Media Briefing and the game subsequently appeared on the Xbox.com store, some people raised an eyebrow at the seemingly low download size of just under 12GB. That seemed like an incredibly low file size for what was 30 games, several of which are full retail Xbox 360 games. Well it turns out that the 11.26GB download is just the initial game itself with the earlier NES, SNES, N64 and Xbox titles. The Xbox 360 titles included in the collection come as separate files and will take up a further 38GB, meaning that the full size of Rare Replay will approach 50GB in total, or around 1/10 of the total space available in the normal Xbox One hard drive.
Ok, one of the more interesting reveals at the Microsoft E3 Press Conference was the reveal that Rare would be releasing a collection of many of their biggest titles on one disc called the Rare Replay.To help celebrate the 30 years of Rare being in the game industry.
Thank heaven for Rare Replay. It’s a very good thing that Microsoft has decided to remaster and re-release so many classic games from Rare’s history, games that until now were rotting in the N64 library, doomed to forever be cartridge exclusives at low resolution. Classics like Blast Corps and Jet Force Gemini deserved better.
Microsoft came out with all guns blazing this year, something they had to do considering that they are lagging behind Sony and the PlayStation 4 in terms of sales. Their media briefing was jam packed with games and announcements that they probably hope will get you to upgrade from your Xbox 360 to a shiny new Xbox One.