| Everyone is making their best of the year lists about | | | | This darkhorse release surprised many as one of the |
| this time and of course there are lots of lists that | | | | best and most unique game experiences of the year. |
| forget about albums, movies or in this case, games, | | | | You control Alex Mercer, who wakes up to find |
| that came out earlier in the year and are now | | | | himself geneticially engineered with shapeshifting |
| forgotten due to the mass of new and great games | | | | powers that give him superhuman speed and |
| around the holiday season. Here is a list of three | | | | performance chip weaponry, but the real power is his |
| games that have been forgotten by the critics and | | | | ability to “eat” or “consume” people so |
| listmakers. | | | | that he can take their memories, powers and their |
| Resident Evil 5 | | | | appearance. It is a very large sandbox style action |
| It seems like this came out a long time ago but it really | | | | game that gives the player hours of great gameplay |
| just came out in March 2009. This was one of the | | | | but little in the way of replay value, which is possibly |
| hottest games available for a few months and got | | | | why it has been forgotten now at the end of the year. |
| nearly unanoumsly good reviews but now critics seem | | | | Red Faction: Guerilla |
| to have forgotten about it. The graphics along make | | | | A very underrated action game, you play as a |
| Resident Evil 5 worthy of inclusion in the best of the | | | | mercenary on the newly colonated planet Mars |
| year lists, but it is possible that the seemingly outdated | | | | avenging the death of your brother. The fun of this |
| stop-and-shoot style of gameplay may be the reason | | | | game was how almost everything in the game could |
| it is now being ignored by listmakers and critics. The | | | | be destroyed. Any building, any barricade, any vehicle, |
| failture of Capcom to release any worthy | | | | anything. The mechanics and gravity of destroying |
| downloadable content after the game’s release | | | | huge buildings with a few well placed grenades was a |
| may also have something to do with people forgetting | | | | feeling of destructive bliss. Too bad this game got lost |
| about the game. With DLC it would have kept | | | | in the shuffle because it also had one of the more fun |
| Resident Evil 5 fresh on critics’ minds. | | | | multiplayer modes in a recent action game. |
| Prototype | | | | |