The Best Game You Never Played: LOADED

Joe Mulhern of AceGamez writes: "I don't know about you guys, but when I was a kid, the best games I ever played were the games I shouldn't have been playing in the first place. Yeah, thats right, the ones with all the blood, guts, gore and the occasional bad word (if we were lucky!). Unfortunately, my father wasn't exactly on the same wavelength, so playing such games were a novelty. Owning them, on the other hand, was an honour."

[Gun_Senshi]

I used to play this game all time with my friend, it rocks :D

[Pennywise]

I popped this in my 60gig a few months back. Wasnt as fun as I remembered it!

[Blaster_Master]

The best games of all time are on the NES. Demon's Quest, Dragon Warrior, Me, Metroid, River City Ransom. Must I go on?

[cyguration]

River City Ransom, too? Man, I loved that game. River City Ransom 2 had more fighting moves and better stage designs, but the original was just an absolute classic. They recently released a pseudo-sequel called Badass Rumble for the PSP.

Back on topic...

Loaded was all right; the best part about that game was the soundtrack.

[Prototype]

Oh man I remember this game, it was the Postal of PlayStation, one of my boys also had Reloaded (or Postal Reloaded or something like that)

[whothedog]

Demons Quest or Demons Crest for SNES? If so I loved Demons Crest, River City Ranson NES was great too. Metal Warriors SNES anyone? SNES is where all my favorite classics are haha, I still love the NES too.

I rented a PS1 and rented this game Loaded or Reloaded(one of the two), RE2 and Skull Monkeys, was fun at the time.

[CptBach]

This is the first game i ever played on my playstation...(the demo actually) i got it on christmas 1995..

[Trebius]

I used to have this game for Sega Saturn...

It was SICK!

[Gen0ne]

Ahhh.... the memories. *wipes tear*

[Calvin_ISA]

Me too. I used to play it at a friends when I was little. That game kicks so much ass. I bought it off eBay early last year. I bought ReLoaded along with it (I'd never played it), and it sucks in comparison. :/

The music in Loaded is so badass.

[qwertyuiopasdfghjkl]

I remember this game! Bought the sequel too, ReLoaded.

Favorite thing about em, was the music.

[Pennywise]

Thats what I forgot to say... the soundtrack rocked!

[NIN64]

Soundtrack by Clint Mansell and PWEI.

[Anorexorcist]

I remember first playing Reloaded before Loaded, and once I eventually rented Loaded I remember thinking to myself "Damn in this one blood just splatters all over the place. All over the walls, the floor. The sequel was made for sissy sensitive little religious kids like Rod and Todd Flanders!"

My favorite characters: Cap N' Hands, Butch (the man wearing a purple dress), and Fwank.

[LiquifiedArt]

It was cool. Very colorful.

[Man_of_the_year]

Contrary to the title of the article. I have played it, finished it and loved it. I also played re-loaded which obviously was the sequel. However it was pretty impossible to finish the game with the limited amount of lives that were given so my brother and i just put the code in to have infinite lives and we finished it that way. Great game with TONS of Blood. However the ending sucked.

[Attila57]

Wow a few weeks ago for some weird reason this game popped into my head, just the images of it, and I forgot what it was called, thanks for reminding! Fun game btw.

[OSIRUSSS]

Damn, I loved this game. Sony needs to put this on the PSN. I would buy it for sure.

[Jamescagney]

I remember this game as well, it was ok but it suffered from slowdown quite a lot. Not really a classic in my eyes.

[nolifeking]

Are you really using slowdown as a complaint against a game that came out over a decade ago? I guess sonic should be lambasted because his game slowed down even more on the genesis.

[Jamescagney]

I didn't like Sonic either.

[ThisPlaceSucksBye]

I actually still own it!
The big box edition and all.

[tommy-cronin]

your lucky man, mine broke, need to find a new disc now

[Anorexorcist]

Yeah the old original Playstation cases that were made out of cardboard! Damn those things look so weird now.

I still own my original copy of Loaded. I purchased it from EB Games about 7 years ago for only $0.99

[Vagrant_1]

Played that game yrs ago when ps1 first came out and loved it

[prankster]

wow, this game really brings me back. i still own my copy :D unfortunately, i have the sega saturn version :[

[FwanK]

My avatar explains everything...

[death83x]

I loved this game so much even me and my brothers kept playing it over and over again. I think I would like to see this game with a new vision.

[Why Dat]

I love these types of articles. I'm always looking for rare/underrated/unknown, etc games to add to my collection.

So helpful!

[UnDone14]

I LOVED this game. Shoot I STILL have it! It's in that big ol' case. Oh and yes I remember the soundtrack was done by Pop Will Eat Itself.

Very fun, bloody good times!

[Douchefella1]

I STILL HAVE THIS GAME. I loved it. But I never managed to beat it though. Maybe I will beat it someday.

[Why Dat]

I love how Douchefella1 says he "loves this game", yet in another article he completely bashes the PS1 and calls PS fans, droids for liking an "inferior" brand.

He/she truly lives up to his name.

[Douchefella1]

You know that this game was for the Sega Saturn also?

OUCH....

[thereapersson]

Quit trolling

[Douchefella1]

What? How am I trolling?

I simple said that I loved the game... what is wrong with you?

[tommy-cronin]

Ohhh douchfella1 got you bad there, HAHA

[Why Dat]

Alright, I'll admit I jumped the gun a bit there. At least I'm man enough to admit that I was wrong.

Too bad it can't be said about Douche and Tommy. Trolls will be trolls.

[Douchefella1]

One of Why dat's posts:

''So now it's about exclusives? HA! You Xbots flip-flop way too much. Btw, if all you guys can talk about is ME2 and Natal, there isn't any competition for Nintendo and Sony this and next year (and beyond for sure).

You are truly a brain deficient child. I don't care if the Mods delete this, they are just a bunch of Xbot elitists anyways.''

Xbots flip-flop? Brain deficient child? Oh please, you are as much as a troll yourself. You have written many posts that proove that you are a PS3 fanboy, insulting other people that has a different opinion then yourself.

[thereapersson]

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[xxchicago33xx]

This game is so badass...I was trying to remember the name of it the other day.

[Hockey11]

My favorite PS1 game was Heart Of Darkness.

[The_Zeitgeist]

Nothing topped Resident Evil 2 and Parasite Eve....NOTHING I TELL YOU!!!

[BYE]

Nothing...except Silent Hill.

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

One of my first purchases on the ps2. The sequel Re-Loaded was sick as well.

[aaronisbla]

did you mean the ps1?

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

oops, yeah the ps1.

[The_Zeitgeist]

Oh man I remember having an all nighter back in 8th grade with this game at a friends birthday party. Good times, good times.....

[prodg52]

of this game. I sometimes leave it loaded in my PS3 so I can play it on my PSP when I travel.

[aaronisbla]

Wow i remember this game really well, i didnt invest in memory cards when i first got my ps1 so i use to try to beat this game on one straight play, back then i couldnt do it

[Rip-Ridah]

One of my favorite old school PS1 games would definitely have to be Road Rash. I have lots of good memories of that game. I used to use ole girl in the pink with the chain. I forgot her name though...good times I tell ya!

[fuzion17c]

Good game!

[VicHyper]

cool I remember that game, it was on one of the pack-in demos that came with the some of the systems iirc

[kewlkat007]

reminds me of "Expendable" for Dreamcast as well....

This Genre "Verical scrolling Shooter" died though...

The Arcade/Nintendo made these types of games famous. Neo-geo had some good ones as well

[randy840]

You're right - never played it :P

[suntzu420]

I believe this game is indeed worthy of a next gen make over.

[Kakihara]

Not the best game gameplay wise but I always loved it's style. Fwank is one of the coolest characters ever.

[Magna Farta]

I remember this being a very forgettable and awful game at best.

Top-down shooters were way outdated even for that time, and I'm sure I'll get disagrees for this but oh well.

I remember a friend recommending this game highly to me so I went and bought it (like the idiot 13-year-old I was at the time), and friggin' hated it.

[mcnast]

Loaded was one of the first games in my PS1 (Gameday, Ridge Racer, Tekken, and that atrocity of a game Battle Arena Toshinden got there first). PS line up sucked and games like Loaded and Twisted Metal got me over until RE1 came out. It was like Smash TV, not in a box, and no quarter. What could be better.

[slave2Dcontroller]

was ok but FAR from great let alone the best game in any era of time.

[hatchimatchi]

HA,

how crazy.

I just bought a sega saturn today from some guy and this was one of the games that came with it. Giant Box and all, :P. I used to own it on the psx and i loved it, but after playing it today with a friend i realized that it hadn't aged well at all. It was still a nice bit of nostalgia but i'll probably never play it again.

Well im off to play some radiant silvergun!! :)

[Lex Luthor]

Used to love this game.
Man time flies fast.