Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection (2009) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection

The compilation features 48 Sega games (49 counting two versions of Altered Beast) which were previously released for the Mega Drive/Genesis (including most of the Sonic the Hedgehog titles released for the…

77 10 February 2009

What Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection is

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection is an arcade game developed by Backbone Entertainment and released in 2009. It was published by Sega. It is available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection,, is a 2009 video game compilation developed by Backbone Entertainment and published by Sega for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The compilation features 48 Sega games which were previously released for the Sega Genesis, arcades and the Master System. It is the sequel to the Sega Genesis Collection released previously for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable, but contains 16 more games.

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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection is the 210th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was Sonic and the Black Knight in 2009. Its critic score of 77 is 6 points above the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.

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How it was received

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 60% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 10 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection launched on 10 February 2009, within three weeks of Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned and Killzone 2. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Demon's Souls, Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2.

Cheats and codes

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