Max Payne 2.
I haven't really seen anyone compliment here or heard of a friend play through it. Also most of the magazines and faboys at the time were disappointed due to the grafics or somth. Oddly enough when max payne 1 was pretty bad in comparison. Loads of dragged out dreamsequences that just made you move around with annoying sounds and visuals. And super slow pacing, like took half the game just to get a automatic gun in it.
Me on the other hand probably played through it 11+ times, more then any other game.
The story was so good it kept you hooked through the length, but then it was just the gameplay and vast weapon arsenal to choose from and slowmotion that made it enjoyable and then the difficulty of surviving without slowmotion. The ease of the controls and constant action also just made it very fluid.
A other would be Blood Omen 2 and Blood omen Soulreaver somthin. God of war type games but without quicktime events and large cutscenes. Oh and play as vampire fighting humans = awesome