The Most Criminally Underrated Game Ever?

[DrBloodmoney]

In my opinion the most underrated game of the PS3 era was Syndicate

[Hanzoadam]

Deadly Premontion =P

 

I say underrated but really its just extremly mixed reviews I mean Distroid gave it 10/10 Gamespot uk was like 9 and Gamespot US was like 3 =P

Though I wouldn't say Underated but more over looked by everyone Binary Domain that was an amazing game =P

[Gommes_]

 

 

 

 

This, too, is horribly underrated. I would have added Enslaved to the mix a couple of weeks back, but after slaving at the stupid collectable trophies, I've backed off on that.

 

 

Don't let the trophy run ruin this game. You are absolutely right, Enslaved is amazing and totally underrated

Edited July 31, 2015 by Gommes_

[limelight1979]

Bulletstorm

Deadly Premonition

Drakengard 3

Singularity

Mafia II

Deadpool

Dante's Inferno

Scott Pilgrim vs the World game

Split/Second

Bayonetta

[HaSoOoN-MHD]

lol no. I found it to be horribly overrated. It felt like just another fairly generic shooter.

 

Hahaha this is the exact opposite of Spec Ops.

d00d, Spec Ops is overrated as shit, and that's coming from someone who still has one of them on PS1...not only is it an average at best game, it's not even as good as the old ones. And I don't even like the old ones that much, sure they're fun, but they're not even close to memorable.

 

The Line gets nothing but positive reviews from everyone and it's frankly, in my opinion, one of the most overrated games I've ever seen. Right up there with Bioshock, but at least Bioshock is fun for five minutes before boring me to death.

Did you actually play through it all or only the first chapter or two?

Yeah, as with others I personally feel that Spec Ops the Line was a bit overrated. While the story was certainly interesting, and took a different approach than the average military shooter, the actual gameplay itself was very average. It seems that a lot of people think just because it had a good story it was great, completely forgetting the somewhat average gameplay (it wasn't bad, just nothing special. Frustrating as hell on FUBAR difficulty too)

 

But hey, props to the developers, they made a game that had a lasting impression on people, unlike so many modern military shooters these days.

The gameplay being average sort of works in favor of the game. IMO if they did better with the sand mechanic it would have made it more unique.

 

Totally agree... the story was decent but not nearly as good as people made it out to be, and the gameplay went from not that good on lower difficulties to downright horrid on FUBAR. The teammate AI is the worst I've ever seen in a game.

They only really frustrated me in a few areas. They're insanely useful otherwise.

Often people overlook the flaws when a game does something well, or very well, and The Line did achieve praise for good reason, albeit with a few caveats to greatness.   The story was well done, characters were reasonably sympathetic, that is, we can sympathise with them in situations that are in truth foreign to most of us, the horror of war, the mechanics of war and the consequences on the mind of those that we send to make impossible decisions...and mistakes!   Of course, the game is an exaggeration, and it'll never compete with real life commentary, but it did a good job, it was provocative, absorbing at times and for those that found themselves invested...if nothing gave pause for thought.  

 

As a game though it's at the mercy of many other judgements.   Gunplay was average, the AI intermittently didn't quite live up to the latter half of it's title, general controls were clunky at times, the camera wasn't the best, graphically the game wasn't much of note...but there were times when The Line hit it's stride, with nice set pieces, well used sound/audio and theatrical cues like the good use of sand storms for both story and gameplay, an interesting cast of characters, decisions and twists that flipped what we thought the narrative was...and even the gunplay and AI found it's mark on occasion...

 

It's curious how much we are wiling to overlook/forgive the nature of a thing when we see it's light, and the restoration of balance for those that cannot, or do not, accept that the end justifies the means...it's a reflection, one we daren't look at when it's horror is bare.   For all it's flaws, I liked The Line!  

 

A bunch of marines/ex military who played the game said its actually pretty accurate in the points it brings forward and depiction of war.

I never understood the hype surrounding this game.

 

It's a good game, bit too basic for my taste.

The story isn't that spectacular, but many people seem to think it is.

The story was an amazing deconstruction of shooters and video games in general. Its not just a great story on a surface level, but on a deeper level.

[NarcissusBaz]

So many people praise this game and claim it's the most underrated game ever, I had to finally play it. After three chapters I find it to be the most generic cover-based shooter ever. I can only take one chapter at a time, otherwise it gets too boring.

[DaivRules]

So many people praise this game and claim it's the most underrated game ever, I had to finally play it. After three chapters I find it to be the most generic cover-based shooter ever. I can only take one chapter at a time, otherwise it gets too boring.

 

I believe it's the plot twists much later than Chapter 3 that people seem so engrossed with. I think the fact the game lulls you in early thinking it's generic is supposed to be part of the charm when the twists and turns start in.

[awf9495]

I enjoy Spec Ops.  For games that scored relatively low that I really enjoyed (my definition of underrated):

 

-Anything Hyperdimension Neptunia

-Nier

-Alice: Madness Returns

-Lollipop Chainsaw

-The Saboteur

-Mafia II

-Murdered: Soul Suspect

 

And probably a ton more that I'm missing.

[Pershing24]

While its true that Spec ops is underrated, (heck Watchmojo won't shut up about it), but there is one big reason that it is. The gameplay!

It is incredibly generic and is just like any other Third person shooter like Uncharted, Gears of War, Kane and Lynch etc. But I did enjoy the game, and I don't regret buying it as my first game for my PS3, in fact I'll make it my 20th Platinum.

Edited January 14, 2017 by Pershing24

[ADream17]

I agree a lot of people have played in and yeah there probably is a lot of articles on the internet on it.However I didn't hear anything about it at all until I bought it on sale thinking it was an easy platinum.I don't think it was actually talked about much amount the community in comparison to games like uncharted or any other tvird person story.The story was great and I thought it was quiet original with a great twist at the end with a bunch of endings.Even though loads of people played it I still think it's underrated.

[Bullstomp]

Totally agree it was ridiculously underrated. One of the few plats I enjoyed straight to completion with no unnecessary grinding.