So, this is all about the best games nobody else ever seemed to play or know about. Commercial failures that were brilliant, a game others dismiss because they assume is bad but isn't, or other smaller games that just aren't very popular to everyone else that you know is truly amazing. Usually, when I see things like this I might look into them and see if the game involved interests me, and in many cases, I experience games I wouldn't have otherwise.
There are a few very obvious ones, like Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil and Okami, which are all brilliant games which I have had the pleasure of enjoying, and I am sure many of you will name. Several others than what I will mention come to mind for me, like Jet Set Radio future, Unreal championship 2, XIII and Mechassualt 2 on Xbox original and Chromehounds on 360, but for me, the big one for me is from Southend Interactive (as is XIII, interestingly), and they are Deathrow (2002) on the original Xbox. That has got to be in my top 5 games of all time, ridiculously fun. It is about a bloodsport, (confusingly called Blitz, not Deathrow. Weird, I know) which is like a combination of frizbee, hockey, and street fighting. There are always two teams, and the objective is to throw the weird electic cool-looking frizbee gizmotron through the opponents goal. A team wins either by KO-ing the entire other team or by scoring the most goals. You get the electric disc to score with by either taking it when its floating in the air following a goal or a misplaced pass, or by beating up one of the oppositions players with the disc and dispossessing them. You can just go out and attack the other team, beat them up, and then once each player is injured enough, get a KO. Each team has 4 players. There are 18 teams, and each team has different abilities, e.g. the Sea Cats, who are an all women team who are genetically enhanced to be able to live underwater, and who very quick and have precision shooting, the Crushers who are an all male team of genetically altered miners who are built like battle tanks, but are very slow and not so good at running, or catching, or the Marines, a team of men and women, who are, you guessed it, all marines, who are below average in most areas but have amazing fighting and team play. There are 18 teams who play VERY differently, and so there is always a different style if you don't like one of them. Honestly, I would advise anybody and everybody to at least give it a go since it was just so much fun for me. So, how about you?
There are a few very obvious ones, like Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil and Okami, which are all brilliant games which I have had the pleasure of enjoying, and I am sure many of you will name. Several others than what I will mention come to mind for me, like Jet Set Radio future, Unreal championship 2, XIII and Mechassualt 2 on Xbox original and Chromehounds on 360, but for me, the big one for me is from Southend Interactive (as is XIII, interestingly), and they are Deathrow (2002) on the original Xbox. That has got to be in my top 5 games of all time, ridiculously fun. It is about a bloodsport, (confusingly called Blitz, not Deathrow. Weird, I know) which is like a combination of frizbee, hockey, and street fighting. There are always two teams, and the objective is to throw the weird electic cool-looking frizbee gizmotron through the opponents goal. A team wins either by KO-ing the entire other team or by scoring the most goals. You get the electric disc to score with by either taking it when its floating in the air following a goal or a misplaced pass, or by beating up one of the oppositions players with the disc and dispossessing them. You can just go out and attack the other team, beat them up, and then once each player is injured enough, get a KO. Each team has 4 players. There are 18 teams, and each team has different abilities, e.g. the Sea Cats, who are an all women team who are genetically enhanced to be able to live underwater, and who very quick and have precision shooting, the Crushers who are an all male team of genetically altered miners who are built like battle tanks, but are very slow and not so good at running, or catching, or the Marines, a team of men and women, who are, you guessed it, all marines, who are below average in most areas but have amazing fighting and team play. There are 18 teams who play VERY differently, and so there is always a different style if you don't like one of them. Honestly, I would advise anybody and everybody to at least give it a go since it was just so much fun for me. So, how about you?
