Fun: Pleasant Surprise

Mr E · 19-12-2011 10:23pm #1

Rules
- Fun: Pleasant Surprise of the Year - any game, any platform
- A game you fully expected to be rubbish, but were really surprised with how good it turned out to be.
- No more than 3 Nominations per person, please.
- Game must have been released on or after January 1st 2011 (search for the game on http://www.gamefaqs.com and look at the data tab for a release date).
- Top 6-8 will go forward for the Vote (exact number dependent on number of nominations received).
- Voting will take place during Christmas week.
- The next batch of categories will be posted in a few days.

Retr0gamer · 19-12-2011 10:48pm

Mortal Kombat. The laughing stock of the fighting genre produces a competitive fighter, regular online balancing and the best single player mode in a fighter since SF2.

Xenoblade Chronicles. Similar battle system to the awful FFXII battle system. Turns out it fixes everything wrong with that battle system and is superb.

Mark Hamill · 20-12-2011 11:07am

Sonic Generations.

NotorietyH · 20-12-2011 11:32am

Resistance 3 - Had absolutely no interest and it ended up having the best single player campaign of any shooter this yer.

Deus Ex - All the early previews were fairly negative, saying it was a very average game. Once the reviews started pouring in I picked it up and loved it.

Driver: San Francisco - Far more fun than it had any right to be. Hokey body swapping story turns out to be a fantastic game mechanic.

Mr Freeze · 20-12-2011 12:20pm

Deus Ex

Zero-Cool · 20-12-2011 1:59pm

Driver
Skyrim (I hated Oblivion)

ShadowHearth · 20-12-2011 7:15pm

Skyrim ( same reason as above )

Witcher 2 - it blew me away how mature and interesting game was. Newer played first one and witcher 2 just sucked me in with no coming back. Way more then I expected.