Atari Classics: Evolved
Atari Classics: Evolved
Atari Classics: Evolved est une compilation de jeux vidéo sortie sur PlayStation Portable le 19 janvier 2008. Développée par TBC Group et éditée par Atari, Inc., elle rassemble onze jeux d'arcade emblématiques, chacun proposé dans sa version originale et dans une version évoluée aux graphismes et à la bande-son modernisés. Les genres représentés sont la course et le sport. En complément, cinquante titres Atari 2600 sont à débloquer en remportant toutes les récompenses des jeux d'arcade.
La presse a réservé un bon accueil à cette compilation. Worth Playing a salué le soin apporté à sa présentation, la jugeant comme l'une des meilleures du genre depuis longtemps. TotalPlayStation y a vu une collection concise et de qualité, offrant un excellent rapport qualité-prix. Du côté des joueurs, les avis sont plus nuancés : certains estiment qu'elle remplit son contrat en livrant des classiques revisités comme promis, tandis que d'autres la trouvent divertissante sans être entièrement satisfaisante.
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Critiques de la Presse (Metacritic)
« Having reviewed multiple compilations, I find that Atari Classics Evolved definitely stands out as one of the best in quite some time. The care taken in presentation and adaptation to a portable format is impressive, with only minor flaws to hold it back. »
« Atari Classics Evolved is a tight, concise little value-priced collection of honest-to-goodness great retro games. It's well worth the asking price and even offers a little more than you'd expect. »
« If you're up for the challenge, and you want to trace the lineage of some of your favorite games of all times by exploring their heritage, you simply can't afford to pass up Atari Classics Evolved. »
« There's also a challenging award system to work through, with over fifty unlockable Atari 2600 games once you earn them all. »
« Overall, this game's got more than you might expect for the price, but it's still missing things that serious retro gamers on the go are looking for. »
« Many of the games - including a few of the unlockable classics (like Yar’s Revenge) - fit wonderfully on the PSP. Then there are games like Centipede where the control scheme is not very well suited for Sony’s handheld and thus will become the games you will avoid. »
« Fans of old school games will find something to like here, so check it out if you're a classic gaming nut. »
« My consoles are where I play the big, "important" games like BioShock, Uncharted, and Super Mario Galaxy. For the PSP, which I use while in transit on a flight or on a long, not-so-great vacation, this collection may have its fair share of flaws, but it fits my needs more or less to a tee. »
Avis des Joueurs (Metacritic)
« "Atari: Classics Evolved" was one of a dozen classic and evolved video games that I did not like but that leave me entertained »
« It is what it's advertised as, all the old arcade classics in original form as well as updated to 2007 standards all in the palms of your hands. A must! Still nothing so compelling that gets you addicted or you don't move on from after a short stint of nostalgia. »
« As an old school gamer, who spent many-a-quarter in arcades on all of these games, I am happy with this collection. I'm happy with the game=play, I'm happy with the choice of games, I'm even happy with the updates and changes made. I like these updates better than the updates on the PS One collection. The reason I don't give the game a better score is because the unlock to get to those juicy original 2600 games, That I bought the bloody disk for is..... I can't think of a term that isn't vulgar. Imagine being a given a game system, and every game that was made for it, the only trick is you have to parkour (yes that is spelled correctly no matter what the idiotic spell checker says, what does it use an Alabama dictionary?) Anyway, you have to parkour naked through the entire city of San-Francisco and you have exactly 4 minutes to accomplish it. I don't want to have to be a bloody master of Warlords to be able to play the 2600 version of Warlords! I'm old now! These games are for us old farts who are wasting time looking back at all the time we wasted! Who ever came up with the idea that you had to get every achievement in the game to unlock the games that are, by proxy of age the crappiest games on the disk, needs to be made to graduate from the Marine Corps Boot Camp, and given a blanket party on a nightly basis! If you love Arcade Classics and have a PSP, then you owe it to yourself to get this version. Just don't expect to see the Atari 2600 games unless your some sort of hardcore-retro-masochist that doesn't want to make time for modern game that are hundreds of times better looking, and just as fun to boot. »
