Overlooked Games:

[Revelade]

- Metal Arms: Glitch in the System

great gameplay/graphics/length/price
multiplayer is bad, but at least it's in there

- Beyond Good & Evil

great story/gameplay
supposedly short

- Alien Hominid

fun gameplay/co-op/pda games/pda maker
supposedly short/hard

I suggest you rent/buy these games if you can!

 

[Emperor Pan I]

What system? I assume gamecube casue i heard of beyond good and evil and i thought it was on the cube.

 

[Zerglite]

Beyond good and evil is supposubly ( from what i hear ) one of the best games out last year... despite being wrongly overlooked..

i think its on all systems... not sure

 

[Revelade]

Yea, I wasn't planning to, but I just realize that these games are on all 3 systems...

 

[bamthedoc]

Metal Arms is on all three consoles. Alien Hominid is only on GC and PS2. I'm not sure Beyond Good & Evil is on the X-Box or not...

To tell the truth, I found BG&E a bit too short. The story and challenge was okay, but it was a bit linear. It's rare to see "good story" and "linear" in the same sentance, but this game actually manages to pull both off. I still have it. It took me forever to find as I only got it about two or three months ago for $20 (new, too).

I'm tempted to get Metal Arms, but I'd hate to play another storyless FPS which thinks "blood and guts" and graphics is the "end-all-be-all". It may have been overlooked by such glory-hogs and "sad-as-sin" games as Halo, but I'm not quite convinced on this one yet.

As for Alien Hominid, it never appealed to me. I found it contrived and straight-forward. Albeit it was difficult, but that's just becuase of the genre.

 

[Revelade]

So is BG&E worth purchasing?

 

[bamthedoc]

At the price it is now and how well done the story actually is, I'm going to have to say the answer is "Yes."