Underrated Games

Legend of the Dragoon. Nuff said

Sacrifice. Sadly the game wasn't that successful so no sequels.

For me it has got to be Downhill Domination for the PS2
that game brought me and my friends tons of fun!

YES, I THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO KNOWS THAT GAME!

101% support.

Metro 2033, It was one of the gems of 2010 for me, It had me coming back to play again and again just to see the different endings.

Shadow of the Colossus, without a doubt.

I don't even know if it's underrated, but far too few of my friends have ever heard of it, let alone played it, so I'm taking that as indicative.

I think it's just your friends. Most people I know in the internet LOVES it.

BTW, Shadow of Colossus will be available for the PSN, along with ICO, still TBA 2011 though.

The Conflict series. Desert Storm, DS II, Viet Nam, and Global Terror. the problem was not too manny people seemed to grasp the tactical advantage of having four different dudes to use. always people just set follow and use their fav gun as leader. never setting sniper or MG as cover. too comlicated and involved for most FPS fans. not enough run and gun.

I used to play those games all the time with my cousin - fantastic.

Wonderful fun. It was moderately popular here but no-one from abroad seems to have heard of it (it did get a US release!). It's basically a really good 3D version of Worms - stereotyped teams of British, Russian, German, American, French and Japanese pigs fighting it out, each with a different accent and phrase set, all voiced by Rik Mayall (comedian of Blackadder, Bottom, The Young Ones fame).

Turn-based, you run and jump around a map with hills you can slide down, water and landmines everywhere, and shoot/blow/torch/poison the shit out of the opposing pigs while Mayall also taunts you as a narrator. In the campaign mode British WW1-style general Mayall encourages or lambastes you respective of your performance, while you attempt to conquer the islands of Saustralasia, rich in swill. The map design in the campaign is brilliant, the sound design is top notch all-round and some of the weapons are great fun.

The classes are another fun element. In the campaign, you get a point for completing a mission, and optional ones for collecting a well-defended medal and keeping your whole squad alive. You use those to promote your pigs in one of four classes - engineer (explosives), scout (sniper), orderly (medic) and gunner (bazooka), which then get upgraded steadily until they all become Commandos, and then Heroes (who get fuck loads of weapons, blimp-borne air strikes and the like).

But if one dies on a mission, they are replaced with a novice pig without any specialisations, so the incentive is there to keep them alive. That's harder than you'd think, though - the game gets genuinely challenging. Some of the class specialities like poison gas and MGS-reminiscent hiding in a box for the sniper, the blunderbuss (shotgun) for the engineer and the love dart (healing rifle) for the medic are wonderful and give the game even more character.

Overall, one of my favourite PS1 games by far, and one where the single and multiplayers are equally absorbing - and entertaining too.

Hogs of War is one of my favourite games on PS1, I used to play it all the time. I still have it in my big PS1 pack of games. I really wish they would get around to making that sequel...

One of the most underrated RTS games; Stronghold 1. Man, that game is awesome, and it still holds up. The number of hours me and my best friend built our castles and laid seige on each other... I dun even want to know.



Anyway, seems like it's a third one coming out too, that supposedly is a lot more like Stronghold 1 than Stronghold 2 (which sucked), so that's some awesome news =D

someone stole mine.

i miss that game so much.

You can download it for PC, but I don't know if the port was any good. Good to see some love for it anyway :)

The humor was great too. the names, and the little sayings craked me up.

One game that I loved was Panzer Dragoon Orta. If you want a game that's original, fun, and complete fantasy, then you wanna look for this game. I honestly fell in love with the story(though it was a bit unclear). The creator was a genious, as the consepts were something you could only find in the wildest of books.

I love this game. So much awesomeness.

I enjoyed that game as well.

Greatest voice acting.

Freaking God Hand!


Also, that Desert Storm reminded me of something else: anyone here played the Strike series?

I don't really know if i would call it underrated, but way too few seems to know about Dungeon Keeper.