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The greatest underdog games of 2012

10 awesome games that went largely overlooked

Words: on December 26, 2012
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49 comments

  • joe-brookes - December 30, 2012 6:32 p.m.

    Really? Dragons Dogma was the best RPG of the year but it still sold well into the millions, same with Prototype 2, Unfinished Swan has gotten ton's of praise from majors sites and publications, I guess Darkness 2 only made it passed the half a million mark, not that it deserved more.

  • Abyssic - January 22, 2013 6:22 a.m.

    Whuuuuaaaaaat? I think Darkness 2 is a great game! The story is very deep and athmospheric and without the comic graphics it would be my favourite of all times... i'm gonna go cry now xD

  • conner-elmstrom - December 30, 2012 7:17 a.m.

    I hope you guys realize that War of the Roses was a Mount and Blade installment not a Call of Battle: Medieval Warfare do hickey. The game wasn't that good by comparison to the Mount and Blade franchise so why not instead talk about its other games such as Napoleonic, Warbands, or the original.

  • avantguardian - December 30, 2012 12:24 a.m.

    good to see some more dragon's dogma love. i especially like how other games were omitted due to their appearance in the platinum chalice awards, yet DD gets to be in both. it's just that good.

  • tehtimeisnow - December 29, 2012 11:04 p.m.

    anoter horrable list that lefts off black op 2.everone on this site likes stuped garbege throw away ganes like this and dont liek to play real games insted like balck op 2.call of duyt is the best mutlipleyer money can by and has super raelistic ganeplay and amazeing grafics it shuold definantley get game of the yaer

  • Anastius50 - December 31, 2012 9:57 p.m.

    You're either drunk, joking, dyslexic, or just plain idiotic of all the games to call a throw away game dragons dogma and others on this list are much easier to hold on to call of duties cheap gimmick yes it has zombies but not good zombies and this is a list of all the under dog games

  • Anastius50 - December 31, 2012 9:58 p.m.

    Though there is nothing wrong with being dyslexic because most of my family is

  • TheDudeFromNowhere - December 29, 2012 7:55 p.m.

    Definitely Dragon's Dogma. I can understand why many folks turned away from it, but if you stuck through it, its really rewarding. Also, Kingdom of Amalur: Reckoning. Great battle system, and so many side missions. Oh yeah, and PS All Stars Battle Royale; its a really fun game.

  • will-hume - December 29, 2012 7:23 a.m.

    Spec Ops: The Line is a worthy discussion.

  • joe-brookes - December 30, 2012 6:05 p.m.

    A generic cover shooter with some apocalypse now sprinkled in that's been totally over exposed for content that makes up less that %10 of the game needs more coverage?

  • Hobogonigal - December 29, 2012 3 a.m.

    No way, the Darkness II came out this year? Seriously? I thought it came out like 2 years ago. Crazy stuff... Still waiting for Ghost Recon to come down in price.

  • kyle-gerardi - December 29, 2012 1:32 a.m.

    Awesome seeing The Darkness II getting love. Such a fun game, no fat at all. Not as good as The Darkness, but still really good.

  • stealth2k - December 28, 2012 2:38 p.m.

    bad choices

  • Ryan_Taljonick - December 29, 2012 2:21 a.m.

    Gurl

  • Overshrimp - December 28, 2012 1:57 a.m.

    Liked Prototype 2 and Darkness 2.

  • TanookiMan - December 28, 2012 8:21 a.m.

    I really liked Darkness 2 as well, although it feel a little short of my hopes because it lost the mini open world vibe the first one had.

  • legoflamb15 - December 27, 2012 9:08 p.m.

    Kingdoms of amalur reckoning and binary domain!

  • Tjwoods18 - December 28, 2012 2:29 p.m.

    Binary Domain basicaly was just a copycat in action

  • kyle-gerardi - December 29, 2012 1:32 a.m.

    copycat of what?

  • Tjwoods18 - January 5, 2013 6:59 p.m.

    Everything: Mainly a mixture of Terminator and Gears of War

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