Reading the sub-par reviews here and some other places did not stop me from picking this title up. I am a huge Sega fan, as well as a complete compilation whore I purchased on ebay (since this compilation is darn near impossible to find anywhere by me), and it arrived today.
Not too bad really. Of course not anything for the purist, but at the same time, it is kind of refreshing to see the games in a new way. I own (or have owned) all of these games on multiple platforms, and different is always welcome in my book. Fantasy Zone is easily the best game in the compilation. VERY close to the arcade version, with the graphic updates actually surpassing that version somewhat.
I do have a question tho. I read in some of the reviews that "Golden Axe" looks pixelated. I see no pixelation here...it actually looks pretty good. I am running this on a PS3. Is the PS3 updating the graphics somehow? On a flipside, I also purchased the original Ridge Racer (PS1) and the graphics on this running on the PS3 seem to look WORSE than I remember them on the original system. If the PS3 is doing something to the graphics for PS2 games, why is it not for PS1 games? Or am I just imagining everything?