"Each year, there are certain video games that players just know will be awesome. For instance, months before games like Modern Warfare 2, Uncharted 2 or even original properties like Dragon Age: Origins, hit shelves, everything from their gameplay trailers to their developer's pedigree suggested that those games would be instant hits.
On the other hand, there are video games that look like they're not going to be any good. Maybe it's because the developers aren't exactly renowned for making quality titles, or maybe it's just because the graphics don't look up to par. Maybe the gameplay appears to be bland and derivative. For whatever reasons, these games looked simply unappealing.
Early impressions, though, can be entirely wrong, as the following five titles clearly indicate. Despite not looking particularly stellar at first, these video games defied all expectations by being pretty awesome instead of being terribly mediocre. "
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With articles like these cant you tag the games mentioned so that we can know ahead of time if there’s a spoiler to avoid?
Not clicking on your article otherwise.
Call me a hater if you want, but I totally thought Killzone 2 was going to suck like Haze.
Was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.
as opposed to a game that could have been good but sucked.
MW2
A list Uncharted 2 can't win because failure is never an option.
I'd personally add Battlefield 1943 to that list it could have sucked IF
It was the PC version where I'd spawn and some pro would swoop it at a million miles an hour in a plane flip eject, no scope and land back in the plane as it does the roll and them bomb me as I respawn.
http://www.youtube.com/watc... (skip to 2:20 for that shot)
I would have added Ghostbusters to the list. Basically for the same reason they gave for Batman. Movie games tend to suck too.
I was cautiously optomistic though and enjoyed Ghostbusters myself.
I thought infamous was going to suck when I first saw it...then when i took a closer look I got blown away, and when I played it, it became one of my top games ever =)
Pleasant Surprise =D