Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3122 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Electronic Arts
• Released on: 2007-03-16
• Platform: Sony PSP

Manufacturer's Description

EA Replay is a throw back to what you loved about videogames in the first place. Let EA bring you back to a simpler time when movies were still on VHS, Boy Bands were all the rage, people adorned themselves in layers of plaid and called themselves ‘grunge’, everyone wanted to live in 90210, and the dawn of gaming’s golden age took hold.

Embrace the 90s nostalgia with a compilation of 14 classic console games from EA exclusively for the PSP (PlayStation Portable) system. EA Replay promises to deliver the same great console experience on-the-go for all 14 games including hit franchises such as the Strike series, Road Rash, and Wing Commander.

Go head-to-head with friends in multiplayer on select titles, unlock original game art, and save your game at any point. Let the memories come rushing back and take the fun of the 90’s wherever you go with EA Replay.

EA Replay Title List:

• B.O.B. - Help B.O.B. blast his way through alien goon squads and rendezvous with his galactic babe!
• Budokan - Walk the path of the warrior as you master the most deadly martial arts.
• Desert Strike - With a fiery blast from your Hellfire missiles you must annihilate a ruthless tyrant’s military arsenal.
• Jungle Strike - The Desert Madman is dead. Now his vicious son plots a nuclear strike against the U.S.A.
• Haunting Starring Polterguy - Scare an evil family out of their house by being scary, funny, or just plain gross.
• Mutant League Football - Anything can happen when mutants battle to prove who rules the galactic gridiron.
• Road Rash - Blow opponents off the backroads in California’s most illegal, unofficial, and dangerous race.
• Road Rash II - Road racing isn’t just a sport. It’s an attitude! Cruising cross country just got a lot hairier.
• Road Rash III - Keep an eye out for wildlife and other hazards as you engage in a 150-MPH bike brawl.
• Syndicate - Sources indicate a rival syndicate has developed a dangerous new computer program. We want it.
• Ultima: The Black Gate - Solve the mystery that has befallen Britannia before its manifestation is complete!
• Virtual Pinball - You design the pinball game, you build, you play it.
• Wing Commander - Lead your elite Tiger’s Claw squadron against the forces of the Kilrathi Empire.
• Wing Commander: Secret Missions - Come face to face with the ultimate threat to mankind - a weapon capable of destroying entire planets.

Customer Reviews

A great compilation.....when the sound's off
Yet another great retro compilation on the PSP, this time from EA (Electronic Arts) featuring classics like Road Rash 1 - 3, Desert & Jungle Strike, Wing Commander and a few more.

I personally purchased this collection mainly for the Road Rash games, which I absolutely loved when they were out on the Megadrive.
The games themselves haven't really been touched and the gameplay is as playable as ever and seems to have aged really well.
The developers have seemed to have changed the music on all 3 games to have just 1 track playing on Road Rash 1 & 2 and then just 1 different track playing on Road Rash 3. This isn't a big problem as it can be turned off but I can't see much need for the changes as the music was perfectly fine on the originals.

The Strike games are also surprisingly very playable, as I used to find them extremely tricky to play with the d-pad on the Megadrive controller. Playing it with the stick on the PSP seems to work really well.

Syndicate is also one of the best games on this collection. With pretty strategic gameplay and loads of missions based all over the (futuristic) world, there's plenty of content to keep you busy here.

Haunting starring Polterguy is a bizarre but fun game where you wander around a house and have to possess objects to scare all of the occupants. I'd never played (or even heard) of this before, so it is quite a good bonus to the collection.

B.O.B. is a fairly basic platform-shooter which is fairly similar to Super Metroid on the SNES. Not bad for a few minutes and is pretty easy to finish.

Other games in the collection include Wing Commander and its add-on, Secret Missions. Both of them are pretty bad and are quite non-responsive. There's also Mutant League Football which is pretty good for a game or two. I would have preferred one of the old Madden games (preferably `92 or `93) which were the best of their time. Ultima VII is an RPG what is at a very weird angle and seems pretty dull.

The collection is very good, if only for Road Rash 1-3, Desert & Jungle Strike and Syndicate. There are better compilations on the PSP like the Sega Megadrive Collection and Midway Arcade Treasures Extended, but like this collection, there will be only a select few that you will remember and love. If you can get EA Replay cheap, I'd definitely recommend it for anyone who played these games back in the early-mid 90's.

A good mixture of games
I have only played this compilation a few times, but my impressions so far are very good. I really liked Road Rash, Syndicate, Wing Commander and both of the Desert Strike games when they were originally released, which is why I bought this compilation.

What struck me is how times have changed, and how dated some of the games look, however the playability of them remains, with the exception of Wing Commander, which was always a bit hit and miss. I had not heard of some of the games on here, but they are quite entertaining and playable. The games are mostly very easy to pick up and play for short periods, which is great for the PSP.

For the current price, which is quite cheap, I think this is a really good purchase for the PSP if you liked any of these games originally.

Disappointing Value for Money
As written below, the lack of original soundtrack for Road Rash is a big negative point, I remember the Tennessee track in Road Rash II having a particularly toe-tapping theme tune, and this is a disappointment. Also, I seem to remember being able to alternate between weapons in Road Rash 3. This doesn't seem to be possible now, unless I'm missing something.

Apart from that, Desert Strike and Jungle Strike are good games still, with decent sound effects and good gameplay, particularly in Desert Strike.

Worth a purchase, but could have been so much better, especially at the high price compared with the Sega Mega Drive Collection.