Games you were wrong about

[nakamura]

Wrong in a Good way

Jonah Lomu Rugby - Looked nothing special at all in the screen shots, much less the Games World TV video, but my GOD what a game with perfect controls and perfect playability. Its the Sensible Soccer of the Ruby Game

Olympic Soccer - Again this game looked terrible in the screen shots , but to play the game was to play the closest I've ever come to a decent 3D version of Sensible Soccer

I don't agree at all with your comments about FFVII and Donkey Kong but those two above I do. Jonah Lomu was so well done, really exciting, smooth and well paced to make a sport I hate fun. Olympic Soccer was fantastic fun. It had the same type of ball physics as Sensi and you could score some belters. I liked the music also.

[Team Andromeda]

It had the same type of ball physics as Sensi and you could score some belters. I liked the music also.

Yep the closest anyone ever got to getting A Seni style football game working in 3d. And yes the music was brilliant, it was like having a rave or Techno album.

Now where's my tea !

[vincechan]

Uncharted. I must admit that prior to getting PS3, I never really played many third-person action games (other than DMC1 and 3). I downloaded the demo of Uncharted when it first went up on the PSN but couldn't get into it. It all seemed rather clunky; the over-the-shoulder view felt weird when aiming and having to switch between that and all the running about platforming stuff didn't really gel with me. The fact that the enemies simply would not die when you shot them a billion times in the chest was also rather annoying!

As it was though, it was from playing GTA4 that helped us get used to Uncharted's controls. The third-person controls forced us to get used to switching between shooting and normal movement. Going back to Uncharted sometime later after playing GTA4, the controls felt totally different than what we'd used before, especially when aiming/using cover.

[Kit]

Psychonauts - Couldn?t understand why this was being praised so highly at the time - just looked like an average platformer from all the footage I?d seen. How wrong was I.

The Milkman Conspiracy is now one of my favourite levels ever.

[parkinho]

Yep the closest anyone ever got to getting A Seni style football game working in 3d. And yes the music was brilliant, it was like having a rave or Techno album.

Now where's my tea !

Olympic Soccer was amazing! Used to play it all the time at uni (along with World Cup 98 and Mario Golf 64). In fact I even beat Greg Moss from this forum about 30 - 0 in one match!

One game I was definitely wrong about was Tempest 2000 on the Jag. Back in '95, thirteen year old parkinho used to obsess over first person games such as Doom and AvP, and despite reading glowing reviews for Minter's work it looked to me like a dull, old-hat relic from the 80s. Still, come Xmas day Santa had brought me the 64-bit beast along with Cybermorph (lol), AvP and Tempest 2000. When I finally got round to inserting Tempest and hearing the first tune kick in I was hooked. 15 years later I still rate it as the greatest videogame I have ever played