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What are your top 5 overrated and underrated games? for me it's

Overrated:

GTA IV

CoD:MW

Gears of War 1 & 2

World of WarCraft

DoTA (Warcraft III)

Underrated:

Rez[HD]

Braid

Portal

Banjo Nuts and Bolts

The Force Unleashed (Don't see why so many people hate it, i thought it was a pretty fun game, with a few flaws)

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What are your top 5 overrated and underrated games? for me it's

Overrated:

GTA IV

CoD:MW

Gears of War 1 & 2

World of WarCraft

DoTA (Warcraft III)

Underrated:

Rez[HD]

Braid

Portal

Banjo Nuts and Bolts

The Force Unleashed (Don't see why so many people hate it, i thought it was a pretty fun game, with a few flaws)

Good picks for the most overrated.

For me they would be

Overrated:

Crysis

World of Warcraft and it's addons,especially Wrath of the Lich King

most CoD games

The Elder Scrolls 4 Oblivion

Fallout 3,only a bit

Underrated:

Revolt

Spellforce I and II

Revenant

Stronghold

Anno series

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Overrated:

- Far Cry

- Halo 3

- World Of Warcraft

- Killzone 2

- Metal Gear Solid 4

Underrated:

- Crackdown

- The Darkness

- Mirror's Edge

- Splinter Cell: Double Agent

- Mass Effect (maybe not really, but it does have a bit of an underdog status, which it doesn't deserve imo)

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Overrated:

Halo 3 (BY A ****ING KILOMETER)

Gears 1 & 2

Fallout 3

Metal Gear Solid 4 (Ah forgot you for a moment there. Epic story line MY ARSE)

Fable 1 & 2

Underrated:

Grim Fandango

System Shock 2

Flatout (like an offroad Burnout with better physics)

Planescape Torment

... WoW? ;D

Seriously though I can't understand the hate on WoW it gave the genre a swift kick up the arse to get it started again. Much in the way UO really kicked things off and EQ introduced theme parks. It was more than stagnant before it arrived. I guess you'd have to be an MMO fan to know that though.

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Overrated:

MGS4

Halo 3

World of Warcraft

Far Cry 2

Assassins Creed

Underrated:

Psychonauts

Crackdown

Hitman: Blood Money

Blue Dragon

Zelda - Majora's Mask (not as good as OoT but underrated)

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Overrated:

InFamous ( Big time )

Team Fortress 2

Left 4 Dead

Killzone 2

Fallout 3

Underrated:

Armed Assault 2

Men of War

Empire: Total War ( Decent reviews, the 'excitement' for it just seems non-existent )

Crackdown

Mafia

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Overrated:

  • GTA IV
  • GTA IV
  • God of War
  • Starcraft
  • World of Warcraft

Underrated:

  • Valkyria Chronicles
  • Crackdown
  • Eternal Sonata
  • World in Conflict
  • Dawn of War II

Not my top list, just a few I could think of at the moment.

Edited by SoapyHamHocks
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Overrated

World of WarCraft

World of WarCraft

World of WarCraft

World of WarCraft

World of WarCraft

Underrated

Doom 3

Crysis (only cause most didn't like the fact there pc's couldnt run it, When in fact they knew the game was a highspec game!)

Unreal 2 (single player version, it was a ok game to be honest, the tournament games are boring!)

Quake 2 (One of the best games of the 1990-2000 area and ppl forgot about it!)

Serious Sam

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Underrated

Doom 3

Serious Sam

Doom 3 sucked. And I LOVE DOOM games but honestly Doom 3 to me was just all ooh look at what we can make pretty. The story to me was bs as was everything else.

Serious Sam was fun as hell though I still love that game.

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I'm not going to list any overrated games but I am going to list three underrated games:


  1. * Tribes 1
    * Tribes 2
    * Tribes Vengeance

More or less.

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Over

1 Halo 2 + 3

2 GTA4

3 Final Fantasy 7

4 Gears of War

5 Chrono Cross ( perfect scores?)

Under

1 Suikoden 2

2 Silent Hill 2

3 Megaman X

4 Max Payne 2

5 Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

7 was great but best in the series? I'll pass. I think Suikoden 2 and Final Fantasy Tactics hold the top RPG's of all time. Silent Hill 2 had the most original story telling next to the original Half-Life. If I could pick any game in the Blood Omen series it would have to be the game that started it all. "Alas poor Nupraptor, I knew him well. Well not really."

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Overrated-

-WoW

-Killzone

-InFamous

-Gears of Wars games (I still love them, but I'll be the first to admit there is a lot wrong with it)

-CoD WaW

Underrated-

-Too Human

-Mass Effect

-Evil Genus

-Ico

-Lego Batman (et al)

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Overated:

GTA4

Halo 3

Gears of War 1 & 2

Prototype

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

Underated:

Unreal Tournament 3

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

Duke Nukem Time to Kill

Clive Barkers Undying

Resident Evil 5

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For me;

Overrated:

GTA 4 (it's still good but I have to admit it did bore me pretty quickly, will eventually play it again :p)

Unreal Tournament 3 (I still like it and it is fun and definitely an impressive tech showcase but that is the problem, it failed to deliver where it counts)

Underrated:

Need for Speed: ProStreet (yes, I'm sure I'm probably alone on this one but people were so busy ripping this game to pieces they never truly appreciated what it was, which was a shame because past it's rather large flaws it was actually a good game!)

Red Alert 3 (again I'm probably alone on this one too :p, people were so busy ripping this game to pieces and claiming it's the worst C&C ever, they again never truly appreciated quite a unique and fun game it was)

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Overrated:

GTA the whole series, except the first one

Dead Space

Gears of War 1 & 2

Warhammer 40.000 the whole series

Evil May Cry 4

Underrated:

I'm Going In 2 (AKA Project IGI 2) This is the most underrrated game ever

Read Faction I, the most amusing FPS for multiplayer with tons of maps & addons

Jericho

Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

STALKER & STALKER CS

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Overrated:

Metal Gear Solid 4

InFamous

Killzone 2

LittleBigPlanet

Crysis

Underrated:

Mirror's Edge

Mass Effect

Resident Evil 5

Dead Space

The Darkness

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Overrated:

  • Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriot (PS3)
  • Gran Turismo 4 (PS2)
  • Grand Theft Auto IV (PC/X360/PS3)

Underrated:

  • Nexus: The Jupiter Incident (PC)
  • Unreal Tournament 3 (PC)
  • Star TreK: Elite Force 2 (PC)

The game in bold is one of the best PC games I've ever played. It's one of those games that needed a sequel like humans need air to breathe. A tech demo for Nexus 2 was unveiled sometime after the original game's release. Unfortunately, the sequel wasn't developed because of cost issues. You can watch the tech demo

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Over,

Halo (Bloody Pathetic)

Halo 2 (See above)

Halo 3 (See above)

WOW (Why is there no MMORPG-esque game with real time Hack&Slash fights???)

Everything after GTAII (Except for Vice City, Honestly I neither liked III or SA or IV - especially IV)

EDIT: Oblivion (Shallow and Small Hack and Slash Kiddie Game - lack of depth and immersion)

Under,

Vampire Masquarade: Bloodlines (with unofficial patch that is)

Psychonauts (It is free now - best game since Rayman 2)

SIN (You might have heard of SIN 2, but Sin 1 was AWESOME)

Rayman Gold and Rayman 2 (Fun / Non Repetitive / Crazy)

Edited by Udedenkz
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