Halo, Half-Life, BioShock - all great games to be sure, but they've all been covered to death. Now it's time to look at the underdogs and devote some time to the games that managed to slip through the cracks but which remain worth a look.
Some of them you may have dabbled with or looked at, others you'll have disregarded entirely as you scanned the shelves at your local GameStation or international variant. Either way, here it is; bit-tech.net's list of underappreciated classics and bargain bin treasures. If you've got any cash left over after your Christmas shopping spree or if you just refuse to buy into all that BioShock hype then you could do a lot worse than to pick some of these up.
SEGA's Condemned: Criminal Origins arrived as an innovative yet flawed Xbox 360 launch title, but is worth revisiting on modern consoles.
Would actually love to see a remake/reboot of Condemned. So very underappreciated... I was a bit of an Xbox hateboy back during the time this came out. But I did own a 360 for a short time back then. Thankfully this is one of the games I got to check out. Thanks to it being super cheap at a GameStop. At least it got a sequel, but it deserved to be a whole franchise honestly.
I am still playing Condemned 1 & 2. Both games deserve a remake or remaster. I am still baffled why 2 is not on the back compat list.
Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines is a cult classic that's finally getting a sequel, but what made it unique in the first place?
FreeckyCake writes: " Condemned: Criminal Origins is one of those unrivaled titles that will forever remain in my memory no matter how old it gets. We can only hope that we will at least get a port to the Condemned 2: Bloodshot game on PC and current-gen consoles, or why not a sequel someday soon? One can only dream."
Condemned was amazing! Had a really cool multi-player as well, such a shame it we never got another one after 2. Brings back some great memories on the 360. Condemned was definitely one of the first games I picked up for the 360. Loved the atmosphere and the amount of melee items you could utilize. Would really love if Microsoft could somehow reboot this franchise!
It's a shame we never got a third game. The original was better than the second, in my opinion, but that's far from saying the second was bad.
Bloodlines is dope as hell, excellent story and great atmosphere. Creepy as all living hell in some areas. I still love Beyond Good and Evil and hope that since Ubi has gotten such success with Assassin's Creed, they have enough money to continue BG&E. Had Neverhood back in the day, awesome game as well. Outcast, omfg I forgot about that game, my PC couldn't run it back then so now I have to track it down.
Deus Ex: The Invisible Wars was fantasticlly good!
There are some good choices there, but personally I couldn't stand BG&E.
Sorry.
Outcast – 1999 - Man i remeber that game, i was like WTF!!!01001001 so freaking beautiful. Also loved the blooper reel. Didn't finish it though..must be laying around here.
Planescape: Torment
I have always wanted to play this game but I can never seem to find it at any of the stores I go to, very aggravating. The idea of anything even remotely similar to fallout was very appealing to me.
Beyond Good and Evil
VEry cool game, but the ending has made me angry and spiteful with this game which I will continue to be until ubisoft fixes this.
Vampires...
Well I did have a lot of fun with this game, until it glitched out and I could not progress further in the story, which made me very angry. Maybe now that it has better patches and stuff I will try playing it again, but still to release such a shoddy effort and just let the fans fix it is very disappointing to me.