Underrated classic games

Akrasia · 03-07-2014 3:32pm

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

battlefield 4 is such an underrated game

Dunno about that, but Battlefield 2 Modern Combat definitely was (on the PS2 at least.)

It was my favourite multiplayer game, a hundred times more fun than the Socom series and more immersive than timesplitters

Akrasia · 03-07-2014 3:35pm

Gunmonkey wrote: »

My face when Sony bought Psygnosis and continues to make more f*****g Wipeout games and no more G-Police :mad:

Wipeout 2142 was awesome, but so was G-police

I also loved colony wars. James Earl Jones (not really) doing the voiceovers was excellent. The whole game just felt so epic!

CptMackey · 03-07-2014 3:54pm

Akrasia wrote: »

Wipeout 2142 was awesome, but so was G-police

I also loved colony wars. James Earl Jones (not really) doing the voiceovers was excellent. The whole game just felt so epic!

A mordern colony wars would be epic

.ak · 03-07-2014 4:27pm

Battlefield 2142... Seems like a flash in a pan in terms of longevity of BF series games, but it really was epic now that I think about it, motherships, mechs, spaceships, launchers... so good! Hoping Battlefront is something similar.

Jesus yeah, G-Police, how good was that. Real syndicate wars feel off it.

What was the other game, that came out around the same time, where you were a hover craft but could transform into this cool mech thing?

.ak · 03-07-2014 4:28pm

CptMackey wrote: »

A mordern colony wars would be epic

Basically star citizen, no? :P

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2014 6:07pm

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

buster busts loose was epic

Not underrated though, I bought that new at release and it was a huge title.

Coldwinter on the PS2, an fps in the mode of Goldeneye but, IMHO, a better single player campaign. Cheap as chips now too, if you can find it.
I think I saw it in CEX

Maximus Alexander · 03-07-2014 6:52pm

.ak wrote: »

Jesus yeah, G-Police, how good was that. Real syndicate wars feel off it.

Seriously, if someone would remake it with all the modern bells and whistles...

The gameplay was great for its time, but there was something about the setting and feel of it that just took it to another level.

DARK-KNIGHT · 03-07-2014 7:08pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Never too late to get back into it Basher! :pac:

too much to play now

first world problems......

03-07-2014 7:29pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not underrated though, I bought that new at release and it was a huge title.

Coldwinter on the PS2, an fps in the mode of Goldeneye but, IMHO, a better single player campaign. Cheap as chips now too, if you can find it.
I think I saw it in CEX

Oooo getting good reviews on retro reviews CGRundertow on youtube

CiDeRmAn · 03-07-2014 10:27pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Oooo getting good reviews on retro reviews CGRundertow on youtube

Yeah,
It's my one real discovery back in the day.
No one else bought it it seems.
I picked it up and played it straight through, fantastic stuff.
It's got some great voice work too by Tom Baker and Nathaniel Parker.
The single player campaign could be considered "drab" as the review suggests but I'd rather consider it realistic and gritty, and the campaign is not BF3 over in 2 hours job, this one goes on quite a bit.
All in all, well worth picking up and playing, and they've one in CEX in Santry for the grand sum of €2!
You'd be mad not to pick it up!

Another cracking title to pick up for the PS2 or Xbox is Secret Weapons over Normandy, made by the team behind XWing and Tie Fighter it's a great little arcade sim and a pretty decent looking title for it's age.
Also cheap as chips, again in CEX Santry for €2.

calex71 · 03-07-2014 10:41pm

i loved this game, back before the internet made it easy to figure stuff out I must have poured a tonne of hours into it, don't recall ever played the sequel. For those on PS is this available as a download now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riHgJOf0dgQ

Adamantium · 03-07-2014 11:13pm

The Thing for PS2.

Gameplay mechanics and paranoia were identical to the film, I can't believe they have not been borrowed into other games, the notion of watching your team mates nervously in case they start showing signs of going bat**** and killing you under stress, and trying to prevent that.

Retr0gamer · 03-07-2014 11:20pm

Adamantium wrote: »

That plot twist though turned it one of the most eerie thought provoking things I've ever played played besides the Metal Gear series. It might also be incredibly relevant and true in real life, incredibly unsettling.

The game was ok but kind of annoying that they had a sci-fi setting yet pulled that prime directive nonsense so it basically just played like a medieval RPG.

As for the plot twist it was the single worst thing about the games, especially for fans of the series. Basically it was the biggest FU to the fans. Hey you know those two games you love? Well

They didn't actually happen.

um7y1h83ge06nx · 04-07-2014 12:00am

On the phone here so no links but the one that always springs to mind for me is Lost Vikings on the SNES and maybe the Megadrive.

dreamers75 · 04-07-2014 12:36am

Body harvest

the creator of every open world game ever.

Rhino n Chips · 04-07-2014 1:08am

I beat God Hand about 3 or 4 times, I never beat it on anything but easy mode because, get this:
I was so good at the game at that point, it kept leveling me up to lv.DIE where all the enemies had like thrice the health and killed in 2 hits.

Best boss fight to me is probably fat Elvis, the masked gorilla comes close, and the circus dominatrix would be alright if not for turning into a dog, but the midget superheroes were just too annoying.
Also this game's really weird.

krudler · 04-07-2014 1:48am

Alundra on the ps1

Another shout for Shadow of Rome too, the combat sections were brilliant and it was so violent.

04-07-2014 7:59am

Adamantium wrote: »

The Thing for PS2.

Gameplay mechanics and paranoia were identical to the film, I can't believe there hasn't been borrowed into other games the notion of watching your teammates nervously in case they start showing signs of going bat**** and killing you under stress, and trying to prevent that.

Yes, I actually had this on PC. I loved the fact that you have to

burn the creatures to actually kill them. The Blood Test Hypos feature was a bit flawed though from what I remember

04-07-2014 8:04am

Rhino n Chips wrote: »

I beat God Hand about 3 or 4 times, I never beat it on anything but easy mode because, get this:
I was so good at the game at that point, it kept leveling me up to lv.DIE where all the enemies had like thrice the health and killed in 2 hits.

Best boss fight to me is probably fat Elvis, the masked gorilla comes close, and the circus dominatrix would be alright if not for turning into a dog, but the midget superheroes were just too annoying.
Also this game's really weird.

Weird in a good way though

I have been playing on Normal, about 14 hours in. Didn't realise the levelling up mechanic actually made the enemies harder.

Spoiler tags btw on the

Fat Elvis bit!! I haven't got that far yet

04-07-2014 8:14am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Yeah,
It's my one real discovery back in the day.
No one else bought it it seems.
I picked it up and played it straight through, fantastic stuff.
It's got some great voice work too by Tom Baker and Nathaniel Parker.
The single player campaign could be considered "drab" as the review suggests but I'd rather consider it realistic and gritty, and the campaign is not BF3 over in 2 hours job, this one goes on quite a bit.
All in all, well worth picking up and playing, and they've one in CEX in Santry for the grand sum of €2!
You'd be mad not to pick it up!

Another cracking title to pick up for the PS2 or Xbox is Secret Weapons over Normandy, made by the team behind XWing and Tie Fighter it's a great little arcade sim and a pretty decent looking title for it's age.
Also cheap as chips, again in CEX Santry for €2.

From looking at the video, it reminds me of Goldeneye crossed with Soldier of Fortune

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TerrorFirmer · 04-07-2014 8:17am

.ak wrote: »

What was the other game, that came out around the same time, where you were a hover craft but could transform into this cool mech thing?

Future Cop LAPD.

The Multiplayer was absolutely brilliant at the time!

04-07-2014 8:30am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Future Cop LAPD.

The Multiplayer was absolutely brilliant at the time!

Loved that! However I had it on the PC so playing splitcreen on one keyboard with a buddy was awkward.

Loved the fact you could make you own robot army v robot army situation.

um7y1h83ge06nx · 04-07-2014 8:53am

Here's that video for The Lost Vikings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZItppVpUwwc

.ak · 04-07-2014 9:48am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Future Cop LAPD.

The Multiplayer was absolutely brilliant at the time!

Boom, that was it. Felt like ED209 roaming around destroying things.

Zero-Cool · 04-07-2014 10:46am

Kingpin: Life of Crime was a great game and never heard anything about it really. Video brings back so many memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qFe1mwcIk

CiDeRmAn · 04-07-2014 11:54am

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Future Cop LAPD.

The Multiplayer was absolutely brilliant at the time!

It was to be another part of the Strike franchise from EA, after Soviet and Nuclear Strike. But they decided to break from the series and release it seperately.
It has become hard to find though I picked mine up for around a tenner a couple of years ago.

House of Blaze · 04-07-2014 1:08pm

Sandra Fit Write-off wrote: »

Here's that video for The Lost Vikings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZItppVpUwwc

That game was so bloody hard!

Class though!

gizmo · 04-07-2014 1:31pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Kingpin: Life of Crime was a great game and never heard anything about it really. Video brings back so many memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qFe1mwcIk

Clearly you weren't reading the right magazine.

As for my picks, I guess most of my underrated classics from last generation would be those mid-tier games that didn't set the world alight either critically or commercially but with which I ended up having a lot of fun with. Games such as Lollipop Chainsaw, Viking: Battle for Asgard, Dark Sector, Afro Samurai, Enslaved: Odyssey to the West and Dark Void come to mind.

Spec Ops: The Line, Singularity and Binary Domain have gotten more praise after release and are a step above the others in terms of quality imo.

Then there's the likes of Bayonetta, Vanquish, Shadows of the Damned and El Shaddai which were all both varying degrees of great and commercial flops.

And then there's Earth Defense Force 2017.

04-07-2014 1:46pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Kingpin: Life of Crime was a great game and never heard anything about it really. Video brings back so many memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qFe1mwcIk

Loved that game but it was hard. Quicksave galore.

Some great tracks from Cyprus Hill- Think the album is call 1998.

Kimbot · 04-07-2014 1:59pm

One i think was underated was "Hogs of war", never really got into worms but loved that games as Rik Mayall done the voices

04-07-2014 2:17pm

jonny24ie wrote: »

One i think was underated was "Hogs of war", never really got into worms but loved that games as Rik Mayall done the voices

Great call. At the time Worms was still only 2D.

They defiantly took some ideas from Hogs of War when they made Worms 3D.

CiDeRmAn · 04-07-2014 2:17pm

jonny24ie wrote: »

One i think was underated was "Hogs of war", never really got into worms but loved that games as Rik Mayall done the voices

Worth a few bob that one.

SnitchingBubs · 04-07-2014 2:35pm

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Future Cop LAPD.

The Multiplayer was absolutely brilliant at the time!

came into this thread to mention this game. Iv been looking for a decent torrent for ages with no success

Kimbot · 04-07-2014 2:37pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Worth a few bob that one.

whats a few bob? I know i still have my copy somewhere :P

Kimbot · 04-07-2014 2:39pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Great call. At the time Worms was still only 2D.

They defiantly took some ideas from Hogs of War when they made Worms 3D.

I remember playing the demo of it from the OPM and just had to have it, the day it released I went straight to game bought it and even got a taxi home to play it I was in that much of a hurry to play it.

Rhino n Chips · 04-07-2014 2:57pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Spoiler tags btw on the
Fat Elvis bit!! I haven't got that far yet

You fought him already, it's the fat Mexican guy in the white suit and purple beads, his name's Elvis!

Oh and here's two tips in case you didn't find this out yet:
1: When it asks you to press O rapidly, you can press all four buttons as well to save yourself from arthritis.

2: During a ducking dodge (Right analog stick up) press triangle to do a sweep, then when they're on the ground press up+triangle to do a heel that bounces them off the ground, then press triangle to do a knee to send them high in the air (best way to launch fat guys), and finish off with either down+tri for a shoryuken or down+tri for a powerful roundhouse.

I'd just like to point out that none of that is ever explained in the game, they even let you buy a sweep from the store instead. That's less "hard but fair" and more "being a bollocks".

recyclops · 04-07-2014 3:49pm

another shadow of memories/destiny fan here

Bought it around a month ago to try again, still holds up, fantastic game

Stone Deaf 4evr · 04-07-2014 4:08pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Kingpin: Life of Crime was a great game and never heard anything about it really. Video brings back so many memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qFe1mwcIk

Lord, thats a blast from the past, I remember having to play that with the sound off due to all the swearing. The family pc used to be in the living room, and my mother, who strangely enough had no problem with her 12 year old son blasting fools with a gat, drew the line at bad language.

:pac:

ríomhaire · 04-07-2014 4:26pm

System Shock 1 is the most amazing game ever. Most people overlook it in favour of its sequel though.

04-07-2014 4:53pm

Rhino n Chips wrote: »

You fought him already, it's the fat Mexican guy in the white suit and purple beads, his name's Elvis!

Oh and here's two tips in case you didn't find this out yet:
1: When it asks you to press O rapidly, you can press all four buttons as well to save yourself from arthritis.

2: During a ducking dodge (Right analog stick up) press triangle to do a sweep, then when they're on the ground press up+triangle to do a heel that bounces them off the ground, then press triangle to do a knee to send them high in the air (best way to launch fat guys), and finish off with either down+tri for a shoryuken or down+tri for a powerful roundhouse.

I'd just like to point out that none of that is ever explained in the game, they even let you buy a sweep from the store instead. That's less "hard but fair" and more "being a bollocks".

Ah yes sorry, I fought him twice so far. Didn't cop that his name was Elvis. My Bad :P

Does point 2 not depend on what moves you have set to your technique list? Going to try later after the footie.

Rhino n Chips · 04-07-2014 5:11pm

M!Ck^ wrote: »

Does point 2 not depend on what moves you have set to your technique list?

They're some of the only techniques that you always have, along with the running attacks. Wouldn't blame you if you didn't know, the game never tells you, it's like in Castlevania SOTN where you can cast all the spells in the game if you know the input.

You can see some of the techniques in the youtube vid "Godhand Ign Response" it's worth watching just to see him kick a demon in the balls :P

Riesen_Meal · 05-07-2014 12:48pm

sheehy83 wrote: »

Kingpin: Life of Crime was a great game and never heard anything about it really. Video brings back so many memories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qFe1mwcIk

Still have the PC CD ROM of that in my mothers house, found a few old games a few weeks ago....

Mickeroo · 05-07-2014 12:49pm

Crusader: No Remorse? Maybe it's not underrated but I've great memories of it regardless.

Mr.Saturn · 05-07-2014 6:34pm

Couple of good ones whose license may obscure their worth slightly. Though, given the high worth of Sunsoft and Konami's respective output at the time, it's not much of a surprise that they'd bleed the tie-in for all its potential quality:

Batman: Return of the Joker (NES). It could be accused of awkwardly gelling on a run-and-gun to the famously hoplophobic Bruce Wayne, but it plays really smooth and, contrary to a lot of NES' A+ material, has a difficulty curve that doesn't laugh at you for not sticking 8 hours down per section.

Tiny Toon Adventures and Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland (NES):
The former being a reasonably competent SMB3 clone and the latter retaining the formula whilst sticking enough trinkets on it this time around to take one's mind of the fact, it's a jolly good one all-round.

SeantheMan · 06-07-2014 11:42am

Syphon Filter. I thought it was amazing back in the day.

CiDeRmAn · 06-07-2014 3:51pm

SeantheMan wrote: »

Syphon Filter. I thought it was amazing back in the day.

But it was never under rated though, it sold enough to warrant two sequels.

Underrated classic games

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