Mike Ackerman, Thunderbolt Games: "With Saints Row 2, however, Volition have stepped out of GTA's shadow to deliver a game that is worlds apart from the adventures of Niko Bellic. That's not to say it's better, heck no. Just…different. Let's put it this way, which is a better film; Michael Mann's Heat, a modern crime classic, or Under Siege, a film about an ex-Navy Seal caterer. Exactly.
But sometimes you don't want to sit and watch a film with any sort of sub-text. You don't want to appreciate fine acting and tight, stylish direction. You just want to watch things blow up.
This rather simplistic analogy adequately sums up the differences between GTA IV and SR2. The city of Stillwater is packed full of big, dumb fun."
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.