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There have been a lot of great games released this generation. But there are a couple of games who got the unnecessary hype even though they were...well great games. GB lists out some of the games that were over hyped.


1. Halo 3:


                                         

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Halo 3 was arguably one of the finest first person shooters of 2007. But in the same year we had Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare also released. Microsoft's major exclusive was worth the wait, but i believed that the game was more of a recycled product of Halo 1 and Halo 2. Also the game did not seem to utilized the full power of the Xbox 360 as some of the animations fell bland. Having said that the game was very good in terms of gameplay, but it did not deserved the hype that it really got.


2.Resistance 2: Fall of Man


                                          

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Ok, one of PS3's premium shooters got lauded by critics and was said to be the next Halo Killer. Mind you the game had an epic sense of scale to it but some of the boss fights were pretty easy. I mean the fights had all the looks to be epic but they had no substance. Hyped as a Halo killer and the real next gen shooter, Resistance 2 fell short of my expectations.


3. Gears of War 2:


                                          

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If you ever played Gears of War 1, than there was no need to play the second. Featuring the same hide and seek gunplay, same locusts, same team mates, this game felt like a add on rather than a full fledged game. The only thing good about this game was the the some what decent story line and of course the visuals.


4. Little Big Planet:


                                          

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One of the most sweetest games released last year was also one of the most over hyped one. The game was great overall but the hype that was given to the game was truly undeserving. Agreed that little big planet was one of the most unique games released this generation, but it was also one of the most over hyped games in recent memory.


5. Super Smash Bros.


                                          

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Bawl One of the most over hyped games this generation. Featuring a great cast of characters with awesome gameplay elements but with more of the same from the previous versions, Bawl got some really unnecessary hype from the media. In no way this means that the game was bad, it was a great game but it was overhyped.



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No GTAIV.

lolololololololol



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No shit....where's GTA4?



No GTA4 and Resistance 2: Fall of Man?


Oh my god.



                            

Yeah, GTA4 should be there.



  

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uh LittleBigPlanet, is simply the BEST game i have ever played, there will NEVER be to much hype for the game my friend!

GTA4? that was overhyped, hated that game but i loved the ones on PS2, Vice City & San Andreas were amazing

and Halo 3 has sold 10million copys, its obviously very good so how can it be overhyped? to sell 10 mil it must bevery good

 

oo sorry bud but get some pretection, this thread is about to set on fire! lol



No Killzone 2 and GTA IV???



I saw "One of the most sweetest games released last year." and kind of gave up on this article. This is not a sentence in English, at least not for anyone with a >10th grade writing level. Also, yes GTAIV should be number one, but it is sooooo cool to say Halo 3 is overhyped, you are guaranteed to get some heads nodding along when you put it in your article.



My mind is saying "Gtfo" for the following reasons.

1.Killzone 2 is not on the list
2.GTA 4 is not on the list
3.LBP a new franchise which happens to be one of the biggest innovations on the software side of gaming in this generation.




CGI-Quality said:

^^ Again, this is THE AUTHOR's opinion. Who cares what games are/are not on this list, the list is someone else's, not yours.

I swear gamers of today (including the author of this article) really sadden me...

Resistance 2 was so over-hyped he forgot it was only called Resistance 2.