If I remember correctly, Winback was originally released for the N64. Right?
Yeah, as the poster after you said two years earlier. The PS2 version is heavily upgraded graphically though.
Raptor: Call of the Shadows. I almost registered that one, spent a long time playing the shareware version.
I loved this game. It was one of my favourites when I was younger. I never registered it actually, I'd really like to. From memory there's a small company that can register it still, an online thing. I'll check it out. But yeah, the upgrade system was fantastic, the action was fun, the weapons were awesome.
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I remember this game being really hyped but then nobody ever played it. I didn't think it was that great, it was a bit clunky and awkward. The combat
was awesome though.
Even though I'm not a big action gamer I pick up quite a few really arcadey action games on the cheap for a short blast, so I'll go through a few of them.
I recently picked up Dead to Rights II (a lot of you probably remember the first but the second didn't get a lot of exposure) and it's not a bad game. The dialogue is bloody awful, but it's intentional and it's fairly funny. It's extremely arcadey, but the disarm/human shield system along with the bullet time moves make it pretty enjoyable. I actually had to retry sometimes as well, it's not always a pushover. It's like a cross between Time Crisis and Max Payne but worse than both. Still, not a bad pickup for ten bucks (it'd be like 5-6 in America).
Total Overdose wasn't a bad game either, in much the same vein as DtRII with a sandbox world. It's quasi-sequel Just Cause got an article on the GW blog recently. But yeah, it presented itself as a GTA style game but it was fairly linear from memory, you could explore but there wasn't a lot of reason to as the world wasn't that interesting. Still, the combat was completely over the top and stupid and it was a blast to play because it didn't outstay it's welcome.
Speaking of not outstaying welcomes, I dunno if many of you played the original Gungrave but I think it's one of the shortest games I've ever played. I found it to be a heap of fun for the roughly two hour playthrough. Wouldn't play it again, but if you're bored one day and you see it for five bucks or so, then pick it up, it's a nice way to waste a couple of hours one afternoon.
EB near me is having a huge sale so I'll pick up a few more lesser known action games and give them a go. I dunno if these all fit as 'little known' but from what I can see they all got pretty average scores and were passed over by the majority of people.
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Little known games which you thoroughly enjoyed?