Most Underrated game this gen.

What game do you think was a underrated gem that you think should be appreciated more?

For me it has to be either Deadly Premonition.

It has some amazing characters there and one of the most best protagonists ever (Francis York Morgan)

Or Ghost Trick-

From the guy who made Phoenix Wright, This game features some of the most best animations I've ever seen in a DS game and has some awesome puzzles and a great story lines.

What about you guys?

Alpha Protocol and Mafia 2. I think they were both excellent games that fans of those genre's would love.. but because they got bad reviews, they were immediately written off and things not worth playing.

I also think Too Human was a very enjoyable dungeon crawler. It had flaws, but really didn't deserve such scathing reviews.

@imsh_pl: I think I'm getting confused with under-appreciated than underrated.

I meant in terms of games that are completely off peoples radar but turned out to be a enjoyable game.

Sorry about that, I'll try and make it clear in the OP.

Not a big fan of Ghost trick - it was not my type of humor. I bet Shadows of the Damned will be most underrated this gen.

NIER.

Alpha Protocol and Mafia 2. I think they were both excellent games that fans of those genre's would love.. but because they got bad reviews, they were immediately written off and things not worth playing.

I also think Too Human was a very enjoyable dungeon crawler. It had flaws, but really didn't deserve such scathing reviews.

I'm probably missing a few, but from the top of my head, Alpha Protocol and Velvet Assassin.

I quite agree with Ghost Trick. I played it a couple of months ago and it might be my favourite game of the year so far (though admittedly I haven't played too much 2011 stuff).
 
I've also got a copy of Enslaved waiting to be played. Very curious to see how it is.

Alpha Protocol is a good answer, but at present I'm inclined to go with Duke Nukem Forever. It's not a good game by any reasonable standard, but it seems to me to be a solid 3/5, with enough variety to stand up somewhat against your typical military shooter.

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Even though Alan Wake was pretty well received it gets way more shit than it deserves.

Alpha Protocol comes to mind. Also, I really enjoyed playing The Saboteur, the last game of Pandemic. It wasn't perfect, but it just was something about the atmosphere in the game, I dunno.

@cosi83: I so wish I could play that...

They haven't released it in the UK :(

@GeekDown said:

Even though Alan Wake was pretty well received it gets way more shit than it deserves.

The problem with Alan Wake is that it was pretty much a competent 3rd person action game with a few nice, if repetitive, tricks rather than the deeply atmospheric open-world horror game it had originally been played up as. I think that soured some expectations.

Ghost Trick is actually a pretty good choice for an under-appreciated title. I keep seeing it and thinking, 'I bet I would enjoy that' but never ever consider actually purchasing it. It's weird. I am enjoying the crap out of Shadows of The Damned at the moment but that is another game that will live or die based on word-of-mouth. It's a ton of fun though.

@ImBigInJapan: I got Shadow Of The Damned a few days ago. I only played like half and hour of it but when I was playing it, I was thinking " Man the japanese must of smoked that crack pipe HARD"

But I loved everything about the game while I was playing it.

Darksiders, from what I've played recently. Man, what a quality game. Too bad the PC port is rather shoddy... Also, maybe not really "underrated", because it got quite good reviews, but 999 is excellent, yet many people don't give it a chance for being a graphic novel.

This generation meaning the 360 and the ps3 or in the last year.

because i will answer, as I typically do, and say Shadowrun.

I would say The Saboteur. I did everything you could in that game, and I still wanted more. I enjoyed every second. That game was great.

Enslaved

Darksiders, from what I've played recently. Man, what a quality game. Too bad the PC port is rather shoddy... Also, maybe not really "underrated", because it got quite good reviews, but 999 is excellent, yet many people don't give it a chance for being a graphic novel.

Darksiders and Enslaved: Odyssey to the West for me. Both are amazing games, especially Darksiders. Did Zelda better than Zelda.

Enslaved. That game's cool.

^ Yeah Enslaved was a lot of fun

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Yeah, I agree with Enslaved: Odyssey of the West.  It was a little short but still very good.  I'm not sure what it's critical ratings were on average, Giant Bomb gave it a 4 out of 5 stars.  It sold pretty poorly initially, but it's been priced dirt cheap since, so maybe its sales records have improved. 
 
50 Cent: Blood in the Sand would be another good choice in my opinion.  It wasn't a great game, but it was damned fun.  I found it to be a competent 3rd person shooter that was as enjoyable as any recent military shooter.  Also, you got to jump some big-ass ramps.

Red Faction: Guerrilla has one of the most fun competitive multiplayer modes I've played this gen, and that certainly didn't get the love or attention it deserved.    I get that it got some good reviews of the games press, but I don't think it ever caught on with gamers the way it deserved to.  Another game that didn't sell anywhere near as well as it deserved was Rock Band 3.  Like that game actually sold like shit, and it is easily the best rhythm game ever created.  
 
In terms of games that didn't get the kind of critical response that I think they deserved; Alpha Protocol is right up there, and Bioshock 2, which is a far better game than the first one imo.

Mirror's Edge

Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines

One of the best RPG's I've played. It's a really great atmosphere. It's like someone took a great RPG and combined it with Buffy: The Vampire Slayer except you are a vampire and not a vampire slayer. So few RPG's are set in the modern world. this is one of the few and it pulls it off really well.

NIER.

@dagas: That isn't this generation?

Either Vanquish or Enslaved

TOO HUMAN !!!!!! 
 
no way that game deserved the shit it got when it was released. sure its not the best game ever or anything but playing that game co-op with a mate is great fun.  

I bet Shadows of the Damned will be most underrated this gen.

Mirror's Edge

@Cheesebob said:

@dagas: That isn't this generation?

Either Vanquish or Enslaved

Sorry missed the this generation restriction. There aren't many games this generation that I love that others don't love as well. If I have to mention something then I'd say The Saboteur, it was a fun open world game and I don't see why people think it is somehow a second tier open world game.

Even though Alan Wake was pretty well received it gets way more shit than it deserves.

Yakuza.

Either one

The first that comes to mind is Singularity.

@GeekDown said:

Even though Alan Wake was pretty well received it gets way more shit than it deserves.

The problem with Alan Wake is that it was pretty much a competent 3rd person action game with a few nice, if repetitive, tricks rather than the deeply atmospheric open-world horror game it had originally been played up as. I think that soured some expectations.

Ghost Trick is actually a pretty good choice for an under-appreciated title. I keep seeing it and thinking, 'I bet I would enjoy that' but never ever consider actually purchasing it. It's weird. I am enjoying the crap out of Shadows of The Damned at the moment but that is another game that will live or die based on word-of-mouth. It's a ton of fun though.

The first that comes to mind is Singularity.

Funny, I think Deadly Premonition is the most overrated games this console generation.  It is one of those games that the internet community has rallied around as an underrated gem to the point that the opposite became true.   Cool story and dialogue aside, the game is just not fun to play.  The gameplay is awful  which you could try to be clever and say it is on purpose.  I say it  lacks that intentional ironically bad and repetitive game play Suda 51 did in No More Heroes. 

Alpha Protocol and Enslaved are by far the most underrated games his gen.
I love Swery as a person the same way I love Tim Schafer as a person, but they both make bad games.

Mount and Blade: Warband.

Alpha Protocol and Enslaved are by far the most underrated games his gen. I love Swery as a person the same way I love Tim Schafer as a person, but they both make bad games.

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Darksiders, I really loved that game.  It out-Zelda'd Zelda in several areas.