Packing four incredible action games from the mid-'90s into one nostalgic package, Mega Man X Legacy Collection might not feature the entire X saga but it's certainly the best of it.

Following on from its excellent Street Fighter collection, Capcom has given the same love and attention to this series of running, gunning, robot-fighting and secret-filled adventures (which also celebrated its 30th anniversary recently), although in this case the company has opted to split the games up into two separate compilations. This volume features X1-X4, while the simultaneously released sequel Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 (review to come) contains X5-X8.

Taken together the two collections cost the same as the Street Fighter bundle, so it's not a cash grab move, but it is weird to have the content split over two separate apps you have to jump in and out of. It's turns out not to be too big a deal however, since in terms of the series' legacy you'll find almost everything you need in the first four games. These are bonafide classics and, even though many will disagree, Capcom could have included X5 here and left the genuinely weird X6, X7 and X8 out entirely and I'd have payed full price.

Mega Man X, X2 and X3 are all Super Nintendo games and represent a huge evolution over the original Mega Man series in both narrative and gameplay style. As it turns out, the creator of Mega Man (Rockman in Japan) built a secret prototype robot, X, designed to have human emotions and free will. His discovery some 100 years later leads to a boom in robotics, but when some "reploids" inevitably go bad and form a criminal empire, X is activated to join a government task force and take them down alongside the force's leader, the inexplicably pony-tailed Zero.

Moving away from the precise jumping and difficult pattern-recognition of earlier games, the X series is more action focused. You can dash, cling to and scale walls and are generally a lot more lithe than Mega Man 1.0. You can tap to fire small shots from your cannon or hold to charge up a big blast, and running through the dynamic sci-fi stages exploding robots and bouncing off the walls is a lot of fun from the very first game.