Metareview: Power Stone Collection

[wraggster]

Via PSPfanboy

There were way too many PSP games released in the past few days, and it seems like the big media sites are struggling just to play through all of them to give us reviews. Power Stone Collection, a port of the original Dreamcast brawlers, is now available on the PSP. How did it fare to the critics? Let's see:

GameSpy (80/100) likes the frantic nature of the multiplayer matches: "With so much going on at once, you'll occasionally lose track of your character (especially during four-player matches), but you'll probably be having too much fun to notice much. If you missed it back when Sega was still making systems, now's your chance to give this well-remembered series a try."
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1UP (70/100) notes that Dreamcast fans will love this, even though the game hasn't aged too well: "While as nice as it is to see a classic arcade-style game get its due, what the world really needed wasn't a regurgitation of Power Stone 1 and 2; it needed Power Stone 3, brought up to spec with advancements in game design and all the things players have become accustomed to in other games."
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Games Radar (60/100) thinks single-player is no fun: "The lack of online support severely hinders the chance you'll be seeing a lot of multiplayer action – and even if there were online support, there's nothing like sitting down in front of the TV with three friends and bashing each other's brains out. Sorry PSP, this one just isn't for you."
It is unfortunate to see such mixed reviews for the game. If you've played it on Dreamcast, you know what you're getting yourself into. Even without Infrastructure support, you may want to take this game out for a spin. Who knows? Maybe we'll get other Dreamcast games this way.

[the_eternal_dark]

Could you imagine Seaman for PSP? That would be entertaining. Rez would be cool too (I only have the pal version).

This game isn't as bad as some people make it out to be. It is a little short, but Powerstone to go, I'll take it.

[Vega]

I'm dissapointed by the reviews shown above. Power Stone is still one of my favourite DreamCast games (along with shenmue of course).
B'ah, I dont care... I'm still picking this up. Power Stone on a handheld still sounds quite juicy to me

[JKKDARK]

This one would be nice in multiplayer mode

[geise69]

I like how they say the psp version didn't age to well. I guess they forget about how much video ram the dreamcast has. One reason most DC games actually looked better than ps2. DC's PowerVR2 chipset was a nice chipset indeed. How did they think a psp port would look? It does look nice and I want to play the psp version but they shouldn't expect it to look as nice as the DC.

[benn]

way to go Sony and Devs.... yet another PSP multiplayer game thast has no online multiplayer aspect.

what a waste of f*cking time and money. you know they woudl be better off ripping out all the online functionality of the PSP and selling it for $50 less. at least then you would meet more people with a PSP in the street.