Underappreciated games of the generation

[MaxwellGT2000]

I agree with the few you listed, LO was the first retail game I bought for my 360.

One I can think of that really just went without a second look was Overlord Dark Legend. Great game, everyone recommended Pikmin NPC, I played it and went meh, but then played Overlord and busted a gut laughing with some of the humor. The action was... more... action-y, and a lot more satisfying for me.

Lit is far too often forgotten but a great Wii Ware game, the first puzzle-horror game ever O:

Splosion Man is awesome 2D platforming on 360, this gen each console has a great multiplayer 2D platformer but 360's isn't mentioned often :P

FFCC Echoes of Time is a great action RPG you can play with your friends on DS, which to me has now been passed up by Phantasy Star 0, both of which didn't get a ton of coverage to me.

Speaking of platformers Sonic Rush Adventure on the DS is one of the best Sonic games I've played in a long time, it meshes the good things about Sonic Adventure with the 3D boss battles with the 2D platforming and speed, and turned out to be exceptional but... slightly easy =X

PSP has the handheld exclusive battlefront games, both of which are really good, and a lot more balanced out than the Pandemic battlefront games, only issue keeping it from being a must have is the controls and that's more the limitations of the system than the makers of the game sadly.

PS3 has Naruto Ultimate Ninja Storm which was my second game for the console and next to LBP my most played. Probably the best anime based game I ever played, and easily the best looking, you could make an episode of Naruto with that engine it looks so good O= If they updated it with online play and trophies that bad boy would be getting played every night.

For PS360/PC, Chronicles of Riddick: DA, probably the greatest singleplayer FPS, terrible online, and sadly we live in an era where online FPS is king and it just didn't have it. I love this game though and it needs to find a few more homes.

For PS360/Wii/PC Spider-Man Web of Shadows, until Batman AA, this was my top super hero game ever, the story didn't suck cause it wasn't based off the movies, the combat was fluid and featured over the top aerobatics just like good ol' spidey should. And Treyarch did a lot of work to make it the same game no matter the platform you played it on, so no one had an excuse to call it a quick/sloppy port.

Only other one I can think of is for the PSP, Resistance Retribution, great looking, probably the most fluid shooting controls on the PSP, and trumps the home console version in almost every way imo lol. Good story, pretty difficult without being annoying, plenty of extras, some of the best online play on PSP, and you could play it via PS3 dual shock.

That's my list, some of them did get a little hype but in the end didn't get talked about a lot, and typically poor sales, hopefully they get a few fanbases that won't forget these little gems :)