Surprise hits of this gen....so far.

I'm talking about games with little hype that turned out great:

Dead Space: Very well done TPS survival horror, much better than RE5.

The Witcher: Very engaging game.

Prototype: Tons of sandbox freedom and gore.

X-men Origins: Wolverine: Very good gameplay and unxpectedly good for a movie title.

Team Fortress 2: Tons of DLC and gameplay stays interesting

Blazblue: Forgot about this one, best fighting game online experience

Red Faction Guerilla : Great destructable buildings

Batman Arkum Asylum: Best Batman game to date!

I'm talking about games with little hype that turned out great:

Dead Space: Very well done TPS survival horror, much better than RE5.

The Witcher: Very engaging game.

Prototype: Tons of sandbox freedom and gore.

X-men Origins: Wolverine: Very good gameplay and unxpectedly good for a movie title.

Team Fortress 2: Tons of DLC and gameplay stays interesting

bobaban

Portal, and maybe Bioshock along with your list.

Solid List, but I would Remove PROTOTYPE, and add Bioshock. That lists seems a bit PC/360 heavy though...

Did anyone play Hulk Destruction Last Gen, Prototype was made by the same team, and I saw a lot of "Hulkisms" in their followup game. It's like ACTIVISION wanted to bypass paying Marvel, make it Mrated and gory, and expected sales.

Well, they got sales, but it's not a sleeper hit. It's a solid game, but not as amazing for those that have played Hulk.

So here's some :

Heavenly Sword, BlazBlue, BoomBlox, Bioshock (It sold pretty good so maybe not), Infamous (That surprised many folks, including me), and No More Heroes.

Dead Space, one of the best horror games ever!

I don't think any of those are sleeper hits

My list of sleeper hits include

Culdcept Saga

EDF 2017

Viva Pinata

BlazBlue(didn't receive its hype until a couple weeks before release)

Boomblox

how is Prototype and Dead Space sleeper hits? I thought they both sold quite wwell.

buea since in this thread prototype counts Ill go for that, that game is AMAZING.

Solid List, but I would Remove PROTOTYPE, and add Bioshock

Did anyone play Hulk Destruction Last Gen, Prototype was made by the same team, and I saw a lot of "Hulkisms" in their followup game. It's like ACTIVISION wanted to bypass paying Marvel, make it Mrated and gory, and expected sales.

Well, they got sales, but it's not a sleeper hit. It's a solid game, but not as amazing for those that have played Hulk.

SolidTy

Bioshock would have been a strong sleeeper if it wasnt for the demo. I think it released a month before the game and in that month i remember it getting hyped like mad.

For me personally, i would say

Kameo, Dead or Alive 4...Actually, i remember these games being hyped quite a bit before release, they would probably go in the 'forgotten category'

Now i would say Persona 3 and 4 (i dont care what you guys say, they're current gen).....thats pretty much all i can think of right now. Anything with a glimmer of goodness has been hyped pretty much by all the fanboys.

Zack and Wiki: Quest for Barbaros Treasure

Mirrors Edge

Team Fortress 2

No More Heroes

I meant surprise hit as being the game wasn't hyped like KZ2 or Halo that still turned out to be great. bobaban

Well, then technically InFamous bests Prototype for 2009 according to critics, and here at GS as well. However, a gamer with only a PC or 360 may not have bothered to beat the game.

That's why I mentioned the critics, since they have access to both games.

For me, nothing impressed me this gen. I am still expecting a Freelancer sequel or something of the type. I did enjoy dead space but after playing it once then there was no more incentive to continue, all that was left was the military suit which you can get with a new play-through (really not impressive to say the least; also the scares became lackluster when you basically know everything, it's no DMC1 that's for sure,in other words:replayable).

[QUOTE="bobaban"]I meant surprise hit as being the game wasn't hyped like KZ2 or Halo that still turned out to be great. SolidTy

Well, then technically InFamous bests Prototype for 2009 according to critics, and here at GS as well. However, a gamer with only a PC or 360 may not have bothered to beat the game.

That's why I mentioned the critics, since they have access to both games.

Red Faction 3, Shadow Complex

Yeah I know SC was hyped alot the final days before release, but so is every game, but before that it was very silent.

I'm talking about games with little hype that turned out great:

Dead Space: Very well done TPS survival horror, much better than RE5.

The Witcher: Very engaging game.

Prototype: Tons of sandbox freedom and gore.

X-men Origins: Wolverine: Very good gameplay and unxpectedly good for a movie title.

Team Fortress 2: Tons of DLC and gameplay stays interesting

Blazblue: Forgot about this one, best fighting game online experience

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[QUOTE="bobaban"]I meant surprise hit as being the game wasn't hyped like KZ2 or Halo that still turned out to be great. bobaban

Well, then technically InFamous bests Prototype for 2009 according to critics, and here at GS as well. However, a gamer with only a PC or 360 may not have bothered to beat the game.

That's why I mentioned the critics, since they have access to both games.

I felt Prototype had far more marketing, hype, commercials than Infamous. eh.

Batman!?!??!shahchip

Battlefield Bad Company. It turned out to be a very fleshed out shooter with some excellent action. I don't think anybody thought a console Battlefield game could be that good.

For most it'd be Blazblue and Arkham Asylum.

red faction guerilla, jumped outa frigging nowhere and averaged high AAA ratings.... well, to other people it did. i had been following it for months cause i got the demo 2 months early.

valkyria chronicles

I also think that Blazblue and Resistance Retribution are suprise hits, not sure but I dont remember there being too much hype on Resistance Retribution...

inFamous

Hm... Valkyria Chronicles belongs on that list. I'm not too sure Batman does though. It always looked pretty solid to me.

I never knew that Team Fortress 2 was a sleeper hit. :P

I'd have to go with Chinatown Wars

Shadow Complex.

I just beat the game on my first play through.

Time: 11:20:13

Kills: 1878

Items: 100%

Total points: 7,688,500

I got 4 Achievements left to get and I haven't even played the Proven Grounds yet. :shock:

dead space, arkham asylum. expected both these games to be ass, but wow. i was proven wrong.