What If Gaming writes: "Sure you have GTA IV. You can explore an endless NY cityscape, online in free roam, do a lot of missions with but there are many palliative factors that come with a game like GTA IV: a more serious tone, stealthy missions, and annoying tailgates. The in-between? Saints Row 2. Saints Row 2 literally does what it sets out to and brings freedom to an open world game, even if it doesn't look mind numbing like a GTA IV game but pretty close. Years after the original, you find yourself in a Stilwater tackled with bringing the Saints back as the true kings of Stilwater, ready for retribution and redemption. Players can play who they want, but not just that. They can play with whomever they want in this sequel through on-line co-op or just free-roam the big city and take a break from some other modes. Saints Row 2 does many things that GTA IV just refuses to let players do and is more focused on smaller city settings than bigger cities with thousands of closed doors and dead ends. There's no break here. Saints Row 2 is showing no bounds while it jumps out of a plane and parachute into shelves."
The 2000s was a great decade for a lot of brilliant video games. Here are the ten best games of the 2000s that you may not have played.
You know usually when someone says "you may have missed" it's games that were lesser known, hidden gems, underrated games. These are all super high profile games that sold extremely well.
What is this list? These are all hugely popular games. I was expecting games like Dark Messiah of Might & Magic, Advent Rising, Arx Fatalis, etc.
I've only played 3 on that list. Part of me feels bad about how little I used all the consoles I've owned as a kid. One bright side is, there's over 30 years of games to experience for the first time.
News Wire - "Today, we’re excited to reveal Games with Gold for July! On Xbox One, command your rally car to victory in extreme conditions in WRC 8 FIA World Rally Championship and rule the court with high-flying dunks and confidence-smashing rejections in Dunk Lords."
Dunk Lords has a sort of NBA Jam vibe to it so that might be fun. I like rally racers but much prefer the Sega type (arcade style) over the more realistic ones. So that may be a pass. I already have SR2 on disc so I dont need that one. Juju looks cute in a DKC/Rayman sort of way so that might be worth a try. Overall though... its pretty bland month.
Plenty of games seem guaranteed to get sequels. But sometimes, companies surprise people and give them the additional installments they didn't know they needed.