So, it's 2012, everybody owes more money than ever existed, and all the big new games are about to dry up until September.
There's never been a better time to invest in the games you skipped on the way to Modern Warfare 3. They're below £20, they're brilliant, and if those sales figures are accurate there's a good chance you missed out when they first hit the shelves.
1. Vanquish
Sometimes it seems every cover-based shooter in the world is built around heavyweight heroes with all the urgency and vigour of Last of the Summer Wine. But not Vanquish. Shinji Mikami's cover-based shooter employs jet-boosted armour, and tends to make all your favourite games seem a bit slow and dim. Mad guns, huge boss battles, crazy setpieces - play this and see that not all shooters are CoD clones.
Developer Platinum Games / Publisher Sega / Released October 2010 / Best price £10, Blockbuster.co.uk
2. Pure
The recession and their largely average racer Split/Second finally killed Black Rock's studio, but their quad bike racer Pure still stands up. Sure it's shallow but it's rocket-fast and beautiful in a clean, bright way that's rare these days. Plus the customisation is fun and the tracks are mad.
Developer Black Rock / Publisher Disney Interactive / Released Sep 2008 / Best price £5, Play.com
3. Shadows of the Damned
This picks up where Resident Evil 4 leaves off, then adds knob jokes, nudity and swearing - it's the product of RE's Shinji Mikami and a couple of other noted creative geniuses. It promptly sold about three copies.
Developer Grasshopper Manufacture / Publisher EA / Released June 2011 / Best price £16, Ebay.co.uk
4. El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
Heaven's toughest priest spends 200 years hunting seven fallen angels who are corrupting mankind's evolution, and the game's art team spend ten hours blowing your eyeballs out the back of your head. It's a simple action game that looks and feels like nothing else.
Developer Ignition Tokyo / Publisher UTV Ignition / Released Sep 2011/ Best price £15, Zavvi.com
Vanquish Shadows of the Damned Castlevania: Lords of Shadow WET The Orange Box Bayonetta Bulletstorm Mercenaries 2 Resistance 3 Yakuza 4 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands Kane & Lynch 2
So Flash is right, you're bloody liars.....ya bloody liars!
Bayonetta is indeed an awesome game. The pinnacle of the genre. http://www.edge-online.com/reviews/review-bayonetta If you pick it up, do yourself a favour and skip the cut-scenes.
Vanquish Shadows of the Damned Child of Eden The Orange Box Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Bulletstorm Red Faction: Guerrilla Bayonetta Resistance 3 Dark Souls
Not really sure Dark Souls should be on here as it will have sold around 2m by now, it's just a niche game.
I'd take Dark Souls, Orange Box and RF:Guerrilla off (enough bought it for em to make a sequel) and replace them with Enslaved, Split/Second & Mirrors Edge.
Vanquish Shadows of the Damned Child of Eden The Orange Box Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Bulletstorm Red Faction: Guerrilla Bayonetta Resistance 3 Dark Souls
Not really sure Dark Souls should be on here as it will have sold around 2m by now, it's just a niche game.
I'd take Dark Souls, Orange Box and RF:Guerrilla off (enough bought it for em to make a sequel) and replace them with Enslaved, Split/Second & Mirrors Edge.
How many of those have you actually played more than 2 hours though
Vanquish Shadows of the Damned Child of Eden The Orange Box Castlevania: Lords of Shadow Bulletstorm Red Faction: Guerrilla Bayonetta Resistance 3 Dark Souls
Not really sure Dark Souls should be on here as it will have sold around 2m by now, it's just a niche game.
I'd take Dark Souls, Orange Box and RF:Guerrilla off (enough bought it for em to make a sequel) and replace them with Enslaved, Split/Second & Mirrors Edge.
How many of those have you actually played more than 2 hours though
Child of Eden aside, every one of them.
How many of those have you played at all?
Don't be moaning at me again on PSN tonight telling me how bored you are, you play annualised titles and HD remakes, theres no wonder you're bored, you're bored because you restrict yourself.
Don't be moaning at me again on PSN tonight telling me how bored you are, you play annualised titles and HD remakes, theres no wonder you're bored, you're bored because you restrict yourself.
I've played Bayonetta, Resistence 3, Orange box and Mirrors Edge so you can't say I only play FIFA and CoD in fact I haven't played CoD for months and play FIFA when I'm bored for a quick online match.
I don't restrict myself its just most games either don't look great to me or I know I won't play it for more than once.
Thats why I buy HD remakes because I know I am going to enjoy them and some are even better than current HD games.
I still need to buy red faction, castlevania, resistance 3, Wet, i really liked the demo of kane and lynch but everyone said it was terrible, i'll probably have to get child of eden for the experience, bulletstorm, El shaddai, Does pure have splitscreen multiplayer because it looks like fun, and Valkyria chronicles. Thanks for reminding me of the long list of games i still need to buy.
Never played a prince of persia in my life. OH and i know most of you are joking, but statistically speaking it's unlikely that you bought these titles.
I'm not telling you to go out and blow 40 quid everytime, I can't do that either.
Vanquish is one of the best shooters on PS3, it's under a tenner new and probably cheaper pre-owned, whats there to haggle over? What because you can finish it in 6-7 hours?
Quality > Quantity.
@Fr33Kye
You can check my trophies if you like, you'll see everyone of those in my collection 'cept Bayonetta because I aint started it yet.
Oh i believe you. I'm just saying that's because your a gaming nerd who frequents sites like these so the likelihood of you playing them is a little more, but a lot of these games werent played by many. Vanquish managed to sell 800k i think. Amazing game. Worth it for full price but i didnt have to pay full price. One of the few games where getting trophies is actually fun for me, probably because it matches the rest of the games arcadey design.
Bulletstorm was cracking. It was just good old fashioned fun. It's pretty too on PC and there's like endless fun to be had online and in the challengey things. Gave me a lot of laughs and fun and reminded me that FPS's didn't all have to be the same or swing to one gimmick or the other. It encourages and rewards creativity as well!
It takes the p**s out of the whole industry frankly.
Title isn't great by the way "may not have played" would've been better.
Orange Box should not be in this list, as it is so well known and well played, especially by the internet community.
But other than that I have only played Resistance 3 (which is absolutely fantastic, got it in the first week, every PS3 owner should play this. I don't even normally like shooters and even I love Resistance) and Prince of Persia (good game, better sequel than Warrior Within).
Bayonetta is indeed an awesome game. The pinnacle of the genre. http://www.edge-online.com/reviews/review-bayonetta If you pick it up, do yourself a favour and skip the cut-scenes.
I must be the only one to actually enjoy all of Bayonetta's mental cut scenes, maybe because I was perving but she was bad as and it was good to watch her.
Disappointed not to see Folklore on this list. Great game that really did get missed by most.
I played it! Art is phenomenal. I very much like the concept behind the setting and the mechanics but the game fails in a few areas.
First off it's basically a 2d rpg in 3d form. I mean that's exactly what it is. That's not a bad thing because lacking the turn based combat of classic 2d rpgs already sets it above a lot of them for me, but it fails to utilize a lot of the differences between 2d and 3d rpgs. The game also has beautiful levels but a level is only as amazing as the way in which you traverse them so they dont feel as interesting or as worthy of exploration because of how they are divided and designed, also walking doesnt suit the fantastical settings of some of those worlds. A good example of this done right in a lot of ways is the first two kingdom hearts games, tree surfing, flying in neverland, swimming in the underwater kingdom, etc. Imagine if in super mario bros the underwater levels played the exact same as the normal levels. That being said super mario bros varies from terrible to decent. Folklore could have done great things with its different worlds but it fails in that aspect. Why was i not flying over the war torn realms? Why was i not floating through underwater levels? Another great example is lost planet 2. Lost planet 2 has amazing levels because you traverse them with a f**king grappling hook, jumping, swimming, floating, maybe in a jetpack i cant remember, and in a variety of mechs. Which is why i think a grappling hook is a better addition to third person shooters than cover based combat. Gears of war level design looks terrible and unnatural sometimes because they have to throw chest high walls everywhere! Lost planet felt more believable scifi than even the strongest gears(3). The only way you can design amazing levels with cover based combat is if you used to work at clover and you made resident evil and you design the game for the player to slide around on their knees....
All that being said i havent even finished the game yet and i still see it's value. The heavy fantasy was a wonderful break and i'm sure it's classic style worked for a lot of people, it certainly had it's moments for me and i'm not much into the classics. And i still really like the concepts behind it and the art destroys most other games, the only games that really rival it in that department are maybe shadows of the damned and gravity(i'm judging them by a heavy fantasy approach). I'm also very sad that gamerepublic closed down.
Was pretty interested in El Shaddai but my friend said it was terrible. Maybe he's wrong but if you guys are saying Mercs 2 was good then I don't know if I can take you word for it.
Some good stuff in there. Ive been catching up on games I missed last year lately & picked them up at great prices. I bought Shadows Of The Damned, Alice: Madness Returns, & Infamous 2 this year so far. Glad I did too, Shadows & Infamous 2 are easily some of the best games of last year/this gen. Next week Im picking up Resistance 3 as I tried the demo & loved it. I also have Dark Souls & hope to finish it........someday lol
This is a terrible article, a lot of these games didn't sell because their bad games. There are many better games that could have populated this list and to put down the 2008 Prince of Persia and talk up that lame as movie game, almost made me want to vomit lol. Bayonetta is one of the best games ever made? You know what's better tan Bayonetta? Madworld. That's what this list could have used, games like Muramasa, Madworld, No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 2, throw some Wii games in there if you have trouble filling the list. Who would put WET in there? That game is terrible.
This is a terrible article, a lot of these games didn't sell because their bad games. There are many better games that could have populated this list and to put down the 2008 Prince of Persia and talk up that lame as movie game, almost made me want to vomit lol. Bayonetta is one of the best games ever made? You know what's better tan Bayonetta? Madworld. That's what this list could have used, games like Muramasa, Madworld, No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 2, throw some Wii games in there if you have trouble filling the list. Who would put WET in there? That game is terrible.
Incase you didn't notice, this is a PS3 article that's why there's no Wii games.
Split/Second was great. Wet is utter s**te. Kane & Lynch 2 was absolute b*****ks. Mercenaries 2 is boring. And the cell-shaded Prince of Persia was fantastic.
Not a good list at all, really. A lot of average games and some utter s**t. Best one is Yakuza 4, which is brilliant.
I advise anyone to totally disregard the best price guide. I checked the prices of these games on the day this article went live and they were way off. Some of the games have been selling for less for ages.
Also... I'd put Dark Sector in there. I also wondered if The Saboteur sold that well because I'd recommend that over Mercenaries 2 and it's well cheap.
Good idea for an article, though it should be "20 best PS3 and 360 games that lots of people apparently haven't played but really should have." Catchy mmm!
Edit: By some coincidence I had just ordered El Shaddai before reading this - £9.99 on HMV
I thought Vanquish and Bayonetta were incredible in terms of gameplay, particularly Bayonetta in fact I think thats got the best gameplay in a game..ever absolutely sublime control system
stil need to pick up Shadow of the Damned but I have played alot on that list, surprised Enslaved wasnt there
Rename the title of this article "15 poor and 5 decent PS3/360 games youve never played" then it would look better...
Vanquish is all style over substance AND very "lite", Pure extremely throwaway, Shadows of the Damned a repetitive bore, El Shaddai a waste, Lords of Shadow a pale imitation, Wet rubbish, The Orange Box extremely dated, Child of Eden interesting but ultimately a fail, IL-2 Sturmovik decent, Bayonetta some pre-teens wet dream, Red Faction shows promise but fails, Bulletstorm juvenile, Mercenaries 2 hopeless, Dark Souls too inaccessible, Resistance 3 still falls short, Yakuza 4 just leaves me hankering for Shenmue, Valkyria Chronicles decent, The Forgotten Sands decent, Kane & Lynch 2 horrible and Endwar (another) waste.
I have dark souls, but it was just to hard for me to enjoy it. but i think thanks to this article i might give it a second chance. also I think i might play WET aswell.
Rename the title of this article "15 poor and 5 decent PS3/360 games youve never played" then it would look better...
Vanquish is all style over substance AND very "lite", Pure extremely throwaway, Shadows of the Damned a repetitive bore, El Shaddai a waste, Lords of Shadow a pale imitation, Wet rubbish, The Orange Box extremely dated, Child of Eden interesting but ultimately a fail, IL-2 Sturmovik decent, Bayonetta some pre-teens wet dream, Red Faction shows promise but fails, Bulletstorm juvenile, Mercenaries 2 hopeless, Dark Souls too inaccessible, Resistance 3 still falls short, Yakuza 4 just leaves me hankering for Shenmue, Valkyria Chronicles decent, The Forgotten Sands decent, Kane & Lynch 2 horrible and Endwar (another) waste.
Yeah Enslaved should be on that list. Fantastic game. Could have easily included co op and probably should have. Pure? Was ok, but I could pick that up for less than a bottle of soft drink. I think it would be hard to find someone who hasn't played it.
Agreed, i only counted 5 that I havent played. And out of those 5;
2 are on my rental list and will be played eventually. 2 are genres Im not into, and wont bother with regardless and the other I played the demo of, and though it was crap (Kane and Lynch)
Anyways, Mercs 2 was a waste of time because of EA prematurely releasing it, Red Faction was an all right game and is pretty good for under £20 but definitely not the full price and lastly, what the hell is K&L 2 doing on this list? That game was utter garbage! The whole youtube camera was just plain stupid unless you enjoyed banging headaches and the controls and mechanics are as clunky as the tin man.
Well I wasn't really counting but I believe I have about 14 of those in my collection but Mercenaries 2 and Kane & Lynch 2?!! No chance CVG, there are better games worthy of such a list. Alan Wake, Alice: Madness Returns, Folklore, Lost Odyssey, Enslaved, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom are all far better and equally under appreciated. And Resistance 3? Why is that on this list, it's quite easy to get second hand (because it sold rather well new) and is one of Sony's tent pole releases, as a retailer I can tell you it outsold the rest of these games by some margin. If you needed a Sony title then Folklore was the perfect choice, beautiful little game and not too many floating around high street retailers.
Also I can say that I have played all of them, I just own most of them and there was me thinking this list might be interesting or original.
Well I wasn't really counting but I believe I have about 14 of those in my collection but Mercenaries 2 and Kane & Lynch 2?!! No chance CVG, there are better games worthy of such a list. Alan Wake, Alice: Madness Returns, Folklore, Lost Odyssey, Enslaved, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom are all far better and equally under appreciated. And Resistance 3? Why is that on this list, it's quite easy to get second hand (because it sold rather well new) and is one of Sony's tent pole releases, as a retailer I can tell you it outsold the rest of these games by some margin. If you needed a Sony title then Folklore was the perfect choice, beautiful little game and not too many floating around high street retailers.
Also I can say that I have played all of them, I just own most of them and there was me thinking this list might be interesting or original.
not too bad a list,but no enslaved,alpha protocol or deadly premonition?enslaved had great gameplay,AP had cool choices and decision making and deadly premonition was just way out there doing its own thing.
Demons Souls is excellent, even if it is a bit stressful! More people will probably pick it up now that Dark Souls is out. And I totally agree with Vanquish, great game. SUPER difficult challenge mode as well.
I've gotta say, I'm a fan of Resistance but I was GREATLY disappointed in Resistance 3. It was in NO WAY the best Resistance game and Insomniac was ready to move on anyway. I registered here just to say that...
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metallicorphan on 11 Feb '12 said:
10 quid for The Orange Box,is brilliant even if it is a few years old now
delmariachi on 11 Feb '12 said:
Kane and Lynch 2 was awful!!!!!
flash501 on 11 Feb '12 said:
I've played several of those.
Very misleading title!
El Mag on 11 Feb '12 said:
Well I've played...
Vanquish
Shadows of the Damned
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
WET
The Orange Box
Bayonetta
Bulletstorm
Mercenaries 2
Resistance 3
Yakuza 4
Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands
Kane & Lynch 2
So Flash is right, you're bloody liars.....ya bloody liars!
flash501 on 11 Feb '12 said:
They should rename it "The 20 best Ps3/360 games that you've probably played at least half of!"
timewarp1 on 11 Feb '12 said:
Kane and Lynch has the best end of game scene. Ever.
skabone on 11 Feb '12 said:
jeeeeez - some people on here moan about EVERYTHING - give it a break
glad to see red faction get props - i was gutted when i saw the new one...they just took all the good stuff out and filled it with cheese.
Barry316 on 11 Feb '12 said:
They were taking the p**s. Derp.
Kezwar on 11 Feb '12 said:
I'm sorry but you lost me at Wet.
KesMonkey on 11 Feb '12 said:
Bayonetta is indeed an awesome game. The pinnacle of the genre. http://www.edge-online.com/reviews/review-bayonetta
If you pick it up, do yourself a favour and skip the cut-scenes.
Multiplayerking on 11 Feb '12 said:
Bayonetta wasn't that good!
There, I feel better now.
TheLastDodo on 11 Feb '12 said:
I've bought
Vanquish
Shadows of the Damned
Child of Eden
The Orange Box
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow
Bulletstorm
Red Faction: Guerrilla
Bayonetta
Resistance 3
Dark Souls
Not really sure Dark Souls should be on here as it will have sold around 2m by now, it's just a niche game.
I'd take Dark Souls, Orange Box and RF:Guerrilla off (enough bought it for em to make a sequel) and replace them with Enslaved, Split/Second & Mirrors Edge.
Very_Silver_Ownz on 11 Feb '12 said:
How many of those have you actually played more than 2 hours though
Multiplayerking on 11 Feb '12 said:
You could take Resistance 3 off the list too.
damoxuk on 11 Feb '12 said:
Why does it say 360?
This is an article from PSM3 mag hence the few ps3 exclusives.
TheLastDodo on 11 Feb '12 said:
Child of Eden aside, every one of them.
How many of those have you played at all?
Don't be moaning at me again on PSN tonight telling me how bored you are, you play annualised titles and HD remakes, theres no wonder you're bored, you're bored because you restrict yourself.
Very_Silver_Ownz on 11 Feb '12 said:
How many of those have you played at all?
Don't be moaning at me again on PSN tonight telling me how bored you are, you play annualised titles and HD remakes, theres no wonder you're bored, you're bored because you restrict yourself.
I've played Bayonetta, Resistence 3, Orange box and Mirrors Edge so you can't say I only play FIFA and CoD in fact I haven't played CoD for months and play FIFA when I'm bored for a quick online match.
I don't restrict myself its just most games either don't look great to me or I know I won't play it for more than once.
Thats why I buy HD remakes because I know I am going to enjoy them and some are even better than current HD games.
Fr33Kye on 11 Feb '12 said:
I still need to buy red faction, castlevania, resistance 3, Wet, i really liked the demo of kane and lynch but everyone said it was terrible, i'll probably have to get child of eden for the experience, bulletstorm, El shaddai, Does pure have splitscreen multiplayer because it looks like fun, and Valkyria chronicles. Thanks for reminding me of the long list of games i still need to buy.
Never played a prince of persia in my life.
OH and i know most of you are joking, but statistically speaking it's unlikely that you bought these titles.
TheLastDodo on 11 Feb '12 said:
I'm not telling you to go out and blow 40 quid everytime, I can't do that either.
Vanquish is one of the best shooters on PS3, it's under a tenner new and probably cheaper pre-owned, whats there to haggle over? What because you can finish it in 6-7 hours?
Quality > Quantity.
@Fr33Kye
You can check my trophies if you like, you'll see everyone of those in my collection 'cept Bayonetta because I aint started it yet.
Fr33Kye on 11 Feb '12 said:
Oh i believe you. I'm just saying that's because your a gaming nerd who frequents sites like these so the likelihood of you playing them is a little more, but a lot of these games werent played by many. Vanquish managed to sell 800k i think. Amazing game. Worth it for full price but i didnt have to pay full price. One of the few games where getting trophies is actually fun for me, probably because it matches the rest of the games arcadey design.
I need money.
IplayVideogames on 11 Feb '12 said:
Shadows of the Damned is £14.99 in my local HMV and there's 3 copies there so get it!!!!!
TheLastDodo on 11 Feb '12 said:
Listen to this guy people. He knows his stuff.
Imaduck on 11 Feb '12 said:
Bulletstorm was cracking. It was just good old fashioned fun. It's pretty too on PC and there's like endless fun to be had online and in the challengey things. Gave me a lot of laughs and fun and reminded me that FPS's didn't all have to be the same or swing to one gimmick or the other. It encourages and rewards creativity as well!
It takes the p**s out of the whole industry frankly.
dicky1993 on 11 Feb '12 said:
and they got the wording wrong, they state that all of them are under £20 but 2 are £20 ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh am i joining in with the moaning
gamefreak666 on 11 Feb '12 said:
Disappointed not to see Folklore on this list. Great game that really did get missed by most.
HBK_nWo33 on 11 Feb '12 said:
Title isn't great by the way "may not have played" would've been better.
Orange Box should not be in this list, as it is so well known and well played, especially by the internet community.
But other than that I have only played Resistance 3 (which is absolutely fantastic, got it in the first week, every PS3 owner should play this. I don't even normally like shooters and even I love Resistance) and Prince of Persia (good game, better sequel than Warrior Within).
Mmmmgrolsch on 11 Feb '12 said:
I must be the only one to actually enjoy all of Bayonetta's mental cut scenes, maybe because I was perving but she was bad as and it was good to watch her.
Fr33Kye on 11 Feb '12 said:
I played it! Art is phenomenal. I very much like the concept behind the setting and the mechanics but the game fails in a few areas.
First off it's basically a 2d rpg in 3d form. I mean that's exactly what it is. That's not a bad thing because lacking the turn based combat of classic 2d rpgs already sets it above a lot of them for me, but it fails to utilize a lot of the differences between 2d and 3d rpgs. The game also has beautiful levels but a level is only as amazing as the way in which you traverse them so they dont feel as interesting or as worthy of exploration because of how they are divided and designed, also walking doesnt suit the fantastical settings of some of those worlds. A good example of this done right in a lot of ways is the first two kingdom hearts games, tree surfing, flying in neverland, swimming in the underwater kingdom, etc. Imagine if in super mario bros the underwater levels played the exact same as the normal levels. That being said super mario bros varies from terrible to decent. Folklore could have done great things with its different worlds but it fails in that aspect. Why was i not flying over the war torn realms? Why was i not floating through underwater levels? Another great example is lost planet 2. Lost planet 2 has amazing levels because you traverse them with a f**king grappling hook, jumping, swimming, floating, maybe in a jetpack i cant remember, and in a variety of mechs. Which is why i think a grappling hook is a better addition to third person shooters than cover based combat. Gears of war level design looks terrible and unnatural sometimes because they have to throw chest high walls everywhere! Lost planet felt more believable scifi than even the strongest gears(3). The only way you can design amazing levels with cover based combat is if you used to work at clover and you made resident evil and you design the game for the player to slide around on their knees....
All that being said i havent even finished the game yet and i still see it's value. The heavy fantasy was a wonderful break and i'm sure it's classic style worked for a lot of people, it certainly had it's moments for me and i'm not much into the classics. And i still really like the concepts behind it and the art destroys most other games, the only games that really rival it in that department are maybe shadows of the damned and gravity(i'm judging them by a heavy fantasy approach). I'm also very sad that gamerepublic closed down.
DAEDALUS79 on 11 Feb '12 said:
Ive played the Orange box and ...well thats it
Sleepaphobic on 12 Feb '12 said:
Was pretty interested in El Shaddai but my friend said it was terrible. Maybe he's wrong but if you guys are saying Mercs 2 was good then I don't know if I can take you word for it.
SpandexArmstrong on 12 Feb '12 said:
Some good stuff in there. Ive been catching up on games I missed last year lately & picked them up at great prices. I bought Shadows Of The Damned, Alice: Madness Returns, & Infamous 2 this year so far. Glad I did too, Shadows & Infamous 2 are easily some of the best games of last year/this gen. Next week Im picking up Resistance 3 as I tried the demo & loved it. I also have Dark Souls & hope to finish it........someday lol
sepewrath on 12 Feb '12 said:
This is a terrible article, a lot of these games didn't sell because their bad games. There are many better games that could have populated this list and to put down the 2008 Prince of Persia and talk up that lame as movie game, almost made me want to vomit lol. Bayonetta is one of the best games ever made? You know what's better tan Bayonetta? Madworld. That's what this list could have used, games like Muramasa, Madworld, No More Heroes 2, Red Steel 2, throw some Wii games in there if you have trouble filling the list. Who would put WET in there? That game is terrible.
Mmmmgrolsch on 12 Feb '12 said:
Incase you didn't notice, this is a PS3 article that's why there's no Wii games.
damoxuk on 12 Feb '12 said:
The same article is alos in Xboxworld mag without the ps3 exlusives in place is Earth defence,viva pinata and metro 2033.
Those 2 mag's are dirty copiers, copying everything with slight adjustments
theideal on 12 Feb '12 said:
For a minute there I thought you were being serious.
BlueScorpion91 on 12 Feb '12 said:
Split/Second was great.
Wet is utter s**te.
Kane & Lynch 2 was absolute b*****ks.
Mercenaries 2 is boring.
And the cell-shaded Prince of Persia was fantastic.
Not a good list at all, really. A lot of average games and some utter s**t. Best one is Yakuza 4, which is brilliant.
xxx128 on 12 Feb '12 said:
LOL - These titles are fairly mainstream, why shouldnt we have played them?
verynaughtyboy on 12 Feb '12 said:
I advise anyone to totally disregard the best price guide. I checked the prices of these games on the day this article went live and they were way off. Some of the games have been selling for less for ages.
Also... I'd put Dark Sector in there. I also wondered if The Saboteur sold that well because I'd recommend that over Mercenaries 2 and it's well cheap.
Good idea for an article, though it should be "20 best PS3 and 360 games that lots of people apparently haven't played but really should have." Catchy mmm!
Edit: By some coincidence I had just ordered El Shaddai before reading this - £9.99 on HMV
gillri on 12 Feb '12 said:
alot of these games seem to japanese
I thought Vanquish and Bayonetta were incredible in terms of gameplay, particularly Bayonetta in fact I think thats got the best gameplay in a game..ever absolutely sublime control system
stil need to pick up Shadow of the Damned but I have played alot on that list, surprised Enslaved wasnt there
Barca Azul on 12 Feb '12 said:
That's because probably more than half or so of them are shooters and I'm not a shootr fan!
Stop making shooters and give people something interesting.
The Demo for Merc 2 was utter crap, by the way.
higgins78 on 12 Feb '12 said:
Rename the title of this article "15 poor and 5 decent PS3/360 games youve never played" then it would look better...
Vanquish is all style over substance AND very "lite", Pure extremely throwaway, Shadows of the Damned a repetitive bore, El Shaddai a waste, Lords of Shadow a pale imitation, Wet rubbish, The Orange Box extremely dated, Child of Eden interesting but ultimately a fail, IL-2 Sturmovik decent, Bayonetta some pre-teens wet dream, Red Faction shows promise but fails, Bulletstorm juvenile, Mercenaries 2 hopeless, Dark Souls too inaccessible, Resistance 3 still falls short, Yakuza 4 just leaves me hankering for Shenmue, Valkyria Chronicles decent, The Forgotten Sands decent, Kane & Lynch 2 horrible and Endwar (another) waste.
silent moose on 12 Feb '12 said:
bit harsh higgins78 but I have to say mercenaries 2 being on the list is a disgrace
tranki on 12 Feb '12 said:
I have dark souls, but it was just to hard for me to enjoy it. but i think thanks to this article i might give it a second chance. also I think i might play WET aswell.
Fr33Kye on 12 Feb '12 said:
Someone doesn't like video games.
Displace on 13 Feb '12 said:
I loved the first Mercenaries, the second was terrible. That could have easily been a great series.
360_Fan on 13 Feb '12 said:
Yeah Enslaved should be on that list. Fantastic game. Could have easily included co op and probably should have.
Pure? Was ok, but I could pick that up for less than a bottle of soft drink. I think it would be hard to find someone who hasn't played it.
WHERESMYMONKEY on 13 Feb '12 said:
Played most of them. Some damn fine titles on that list for people that haven't though.
My picks would be Dark Souls, Shadows of the Damned and Bulletstorm.
Maybe you should do a list for the wii. I bet they'll be a lot fewer people saying they played most of them too.
mattdark on 13 Feb '12 said:
Agreed, i only counted 5 that I havent played. And out of those 5;
2 are on my rental list and will be played eventually.
2 are genres Im not into, and wont bother with regardless
and the other I played the demo of, and though it was crap (Kane and Lynch)
surplusman on 13 Feb '12 said:
no deadly premonition or maybe alpha protocol?not the best games ever but well worth a look
gmcb007 on 13 Feb '12 said:
Im pretty sure i've played some of those...
Anyways, Mercs 2 was a waste of time because of EA prematurely releasing it, Red Faction was an all right game and is pretty good for under £20 but definitely not the full price and lastly, what the hell is K&L 2 doing on this list? That game was utter garbage! The whole youtube camera was just plain stupid unless you enjoyed banging headaches and the controls and mechanics are as clunky as the tin man.
FASELI on 13 Feb '12 said:
Well I wasn't really counting but I believe I have about 14 of those in my collection but Mercenaries 2 and Kane & Lynch 2?!!
No chance CVG, there are better games worthy of such a list. Alan Wake, Alice: Madness Returns, Folklore, Lost Odyssey, Enslaved, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom are all far better and equally under appreciated. And Resistance 3? Why is that on this list, it's quite easy to get second hand (because it sold rather well new) and is one of Sony's tent pole releases, as a retailer I can tell you it outsold the rest of these games by some margin. If you needed a Sony title then Folklore was the perfect choice, beautiful little game and not too many floating around high street retailers.
Also I can say that I have played all of them, I just own most of them and there was me thinking this list might be interesting or original.
FASELI on 13 Feb '12 said:
Well I wasn't really counting but I believe I have about 14 of those in my collection but Mercenaries 2 and Kane & Lynch 2?!!
No chance CVG, there are better games worthy of such a list. Alan Wake, Alice: Madness Returns, Folklore, Lost Odyssey, Enslaved, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom are all far better and equally under appreciated. And Resistance 3? Why is that on this list, it's quite easy to get second hand (because it sold rather well new) and is one of Sony's tent pole releases, as a retailer I can tell you it outsold the rest of these games by some margin. If you needed a Sony title then Folklore was the perfect choice, beautiful little game and not too many floating around high street retailers.
Also I can say that I have played all of them, I just own most of them and there was me thinking this list might be interesting or original.
ileatyoualive on 13 Feb '12 said:
Child of Eden played with the volume cranked up is awesome.
Soviet1918 on 13 Feb '12 said:
Many a good tune played on an old fiddle
its a sin if you dont have it..
humanhand on 14 Feb '12 said:
Could have put R.U.S.E. in there... and Skate 3 even.
surplusman on 15 Feb '12 said:
not too bad a list,but no enslaved,alpha protocol or deadly premonition?enslaved had great gameplay,AP had cool choices and decision making and deadly premonition was just way out there doing its own thing.
BlueScorpion91 on 15 Feb '12 said:
Didn't like it.
tunnard on 24 Feb '12 said:
Demons Souls is excellent, even if it is a bit stressful! More people will probably pick it up now that Dark Souls is out. And I totally agree with Vanquish, great game. SUPER difficult challenge mode as well.
DarkStart on 26 Feb '12 said:
some ook goods
Mattoto on 26 Feb '12 said:
Castlevania and Valkyria Chronicles are my 2 PS3 favorite games with End of Eternity from tri-ace.
CrimsonClone38 on 12 Mar '12 said:
I've gotta say, I'm a fan of Resistance but I was GREATLY disappointed in Resistance 3. It was in NO WAY the best Resistance game and Insomniac was ready to move on anyway. I registered here just to say that...