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Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for PlayStation Portable
Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for PlayStation Portable gathers nineteen games from Capcom's past. You can choose, for example, the aerial battles of 1942 and 1943, the sword fights of Knights of the Round or the duels of Street Fighter II. Ghosts 'n Goblins, Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts are also on the disc. Their knights and monsters give way to a fighter plane or a fistfight as soon as you select another title. The collection thus alternates between shooting, brawling and platform action.
You can adjust settings and buttons for each game. Different display options help preserve the original aspect ratio or use the PSP screen differently. Vertical shooters also offer rotated views. As you play, you collect coins for a virtual slot machine, unlocking illustrations, music and tips among other things. Alongside its individual games, the collection therefore has a gallery that gradually grows. Checkpoints let you resume an interrupted solo game later.
Local wireless play supports two or three players, depending on the title; each uses a PSP with wireless networking and their own copy. Game Sharing also offers limited portions of six games with one UMD, not the complete collection. For example, you can share the first two stages of 1943, while Pirate Ship Higemaru is available in full.
Region and language
Our PlayStation Portable games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
You receive the physical UMD edition. You need a PSP with a UMD drive to play it; a PSP Go cannot play this disc.
Manual
Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for PlayStation Portable includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded
Capcom brought Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded to PlayStation Portable in 2006. It was the second Capcom Classics collection for the handheld, following Remixed. The two discs have different selections: Remixed contains twenty games, while Reloaded brings together nineteen titles. Reloaded included, among other things, the different Street Fighter II releases and the three early Ghosts 'n Goblins adventures. It is therefore a different cross-section of Capcom's history, not a new name for the same content.
The selection ranges from 1984 games such as Vulgus and Pirate Ship Higemaru to Eco Fighters from the nineties. During that period, both the visuals and the structure of arcade games changed. Higemaru's simple spaces sit alongside the larger characters of Street Fighter II and the scrolling battlefields of Knights of the Round. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts originally came out for the Super Nintendo, so the collection also includes a console chapter alongside its arcade history.
The PSP adaptation added display choices, customisable controls and collectible extras to the old games. Game Sharing used the handheld's wireless connection to send limited game content to another PSP. In October 2009, Capcom also announced a digital release within its UMD Legacy programme. That later distribution did not change which nineteen games are on the original Reloaded disc.
Similar games for PlayStation Portable
Capcom Classics Collection Remixed for PlayStation Portable shares the idea of collecting older Capcom games with adjustable displays and controls. Its contents differ, however: Remixed includes Final Fight, Strider, Bionic Commando and the first Street Fighter, among others. Reloaded instead focuses its fighting-game section on three Street Fighter II releases and offers the Ghosts 'n Goblins series. Choosing between these discs therefore mainly means choosing which specific games you want to play, not just a different box.
Power Stone Collection on PlayStation Portable also brings older Capcom games to a portable system. This collection contains the two Power Stone games that previously appeared on Dreamcast. Their battles use three-dimensional arenas, where the positions of objects and opponents keep changing. The Street Fighter II games in Reloaded keep their duels on a two-dimensional plane. Power Stone concentrates on one fighting series; Reloaded also includes aerial battles, platform games and scrolling sword fights.
MediEvil Resurrection for PlayStation Portable shares an unfortunate knight and a world full of monsters with Ghosts 'n Goblins in Reloaded. Sir Daniel Fortesque, however, explores a three-dimensional Gallowmere with an ongoing narrative, items and sealed passages. In the old Ghosts 'n Goblins games, Arthur mainly moves through dangerous stages viewed from the side. Resurrection rebuilds an earlier adventure; Reloaded preserves several older games in one collection, with different original styles of play.
Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters on PlayStation Portable shares the alternation of jumping, shooting and dodging enemies with various games in Reloaded. Ratchet gets an ongoing science-fiction adventure with technical gadgets and customisable armour. Reloaded switches to different rules and characters with every chosen title: a plane in 1943 asks something different of you than a knight in Knights of the Round. Size Matters instead has you follow the same duo and their growing range of tools through new areas.
God of War: Chains of Olympus for PlayStation Portable, like The King of Dragons and Knights of the Round in Reloaded, revolves around close-range battles against groups of enemies. Kratos follows his own story in Greek mythology, with obstacles between the fights. The older Capcom games use a side view and short arcade stages with a different distribution of lives and enemies. Reloaded offers those separate styles alongside shooters and duels; Chains of Olympus stays with Kratos's journey.
