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[Quintopotere]

I have a simple question for you: in your opinion, what is the most underrated game?

I think that everyone know at least a game which he liked so much, but for some reasons that game was underestimated by the press and the gamer community, so it simply vanished in few days.

For example i like so much Startopia or Prince of Persia 3D, but there are just few ones who remember them!
And what about Psychonauts whit all its distribution problems? (at least in Europe, if i'm right...)

Finally, here you have the opportunity to shout: "That game is a great/funny/incredible/fantastic game! It doesn't matter what those stupid reviews said!"

[Nikson]

Since you mentined Prince of Persia 3D... the game is underrated because of its low replay value compared to the oldschol prince of persia (1 and 2), and even more so compared to PoP: Sands of Time (which came out soon after Pop3D) and the new Warrior Within (theres a #3 coming out soon too! *drools*)

My underrated game would have to be Stratosphere. It was this weird game where you had a flying island and had to build batteries and propellers and spikes and stuff on it (it was a flying fortress supposedly), and to get better stuff you had to mine resources from mountains... and the reason you built up your flying island was to duke it out with the other flying islands in the level.

It ran absolutely terrible on my old Pentium I, 133MHz... and I never heard from that game again. In the first place I found it on a mate's CD with a lot of random games on it.

[Kearnsy]

Super Smash Bros Melee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 reviews I read gave it 70%!!!!!!
What is that!!!!!! :ranting: :ranting:
It is the single most played game and my favourate game by far on the GCN and in my top 3 of all time games on any platform ever.
Its quite incredible what you get out of that game if you improve your skills to a high level.
So very many hours of enjoyment
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...70%!!!!!!!!!!!
Bhah!! :not_ok: :angry:

[The Fifth Horseman]

Crescent Hawks Revenge, the true precursor of all RTS games ever made. It was kind of big bang when it can out first, but got quickly forgotten, especially after Dune 2 and then Warcraft and C&C.

[MdaG]

Hard to say, but I think Torment got a lot less attention than it deserved.

[BeefontheBone]

Battlezone (the 1997? version) was amazing - gorgeous, fun, genre-straddling and with a neat plot involving a secret continuation of the space race going on after the cold war and some weird alien technology. Excellent - the sequel was pretty good too.

There's the old chestnuts like Darwinia, Sacrifice (best RTS ever? It's a contender), Giants: Citizen Kabuko (possibly suffering from the same "weirdness" putting people off as Psychonauts, which I keep meaning to get round to playing), and I reckon NetStorm: Islands at War didn't get quite the attention it deserved due to being too far ahead of its time in that it focused on online play before enough people had discovered the joys of internet gaming.

[Blood-Pigggy]

All of the System Shock, and Thief games were given rave reviews, and no one bought them.

[DeathDude]

For sure the system shock series, got good reviews but yet didn't seem to click with buyers for them to pick it up.

[Fruit Pie Jones]

Originally posted by BeefontheBone@Nov 16 2005, 08:05 AM
Battlezone (the 1997? version) was amazing - gorgeous, fun, genre-straddling and with a neat plot involving a secret continuation of the space race going on after the cold war and some weird alien technology.

I agree completely; Battlezone was excellent. The plot was engaging, and the individual missions had really great atmosphere to them. Plus, it looked good. Overall, a great combination of FPS and RTS. Never played the sequel, though. In fact, I only had the original because my wife's dad got it free with some piece of hardware that he bought. He didn't want the game, so he gave it to me. I've still got it somewhere...

[Tulac]

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