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Originally Posted by Dowly
Way too many to list, but from the past year:
ACM, XCOM and Close Combat: Panthers in the Fog
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You didn't like Xcom Enemy Unknown? I liked it, sure it wasn't as hard as the originals, but it was a pretty competently done turn based game.
For me, the most disappointing was the Kane and Lynch series.
For the longest time, we were forced to play as the good guys in video games. Sure, you killed millions, but the game still made you the hero (or at the very most, like in Mafia 2, a flawed protagonist).
But I want to play as the bad guy goddamnit! I want to play as the guy who is taking over the world because of selfish reasons, because he isn't a good guy! And to be honest, these games are too few and far between. I wanted to play as Blofied, not James Bond again goddamnit! Add in the fact that the multiplayer was innovative, and that IO interactive (the Hitman guys) were making the game, and I was really looking forward to it.
But alas, the game was a shooter, but the shooting mechanics were crap. Kane and Lynch was built off the Hitman engine, and that was where its troubles began. Hitman: Blood Money had very sloppy shooting, but we forgave it, because it was a hitman game, not a shooter. But when you make a shooter with such sloppy mechanics, you completely ruin the game.