Still the best and most unique competitive multiplayer game around - almost 15 years later

User Rating: 10 | Phantom Dust XONE

Back in 2004, Official Xbox Magazine had a hidden demo for a weird Japanese game called Phantom Dust. I played it. I loved it. I got my friends to play it and love it. Then we heard it wasn't coming to the US. A few months later, it was released in the US. My friends and I played that game non stop for years. We put in 100s of hours. Then the original Xbox servers were cut and I could no longer play my favorite game. I waited... for YEARS I waited, until finally - there was some glimmer of hope.... then that game was cancelled... .then more waiting... then more hope, then FINALLY - Last night, we got the old crew back together and played Phantom Dust online with each other for the first time in years... and it was just as good, if not better than I remembered. The game looks great and the gameplay still hasn't been replicated anywhere else. There's no alternative to this incredible action / collectible deckbuilding game hybrid. It's free - you owe it to yourself to give it a decent shot.