I want to talk about several of my beloved games of all-time ........ those ones that have been sort-of "thrashed" by Gamespot reviewers...

1. Scarface :The World is Yours (PS2) - "A competent but usually uninteresting game"..... based on the movie on which all the Grand Theft Auto games since GTA III are based on the same movie ... GTA III has a radio station soundtrack with basically all the Scarface soundtrack and GTA Vice City contains so much Scarface-o-Mania such as the Miami-like environment from the Eighties, the famous Ricardo Diaz mansion based on Tony Montana's mansion, a famous useless apartment with some macabre thrashing in the bathroom just like the chainsaw scene from Scarface.

What's wrong with the "uninteresting" bit ? What is that uninteresting ? A game called "The Godfather:The Game" deserved 7.9 and all that "Scarface:The World is Yours" got is 6.4 !!!!!!!!!! =-/ I am not thrashing "The Godfather " , I praise that game as well as Scarface.

Sometimes all those GTA game's missions are just that "unplayable" and frustrating .... I dug that Scarface game . The idea of integrating the businesses' thing into the storyline is pretty cool in my sense. I find it senseful to stick to the essentials in order to do 100% of the game , such as the storyline , the exotics and killing the gangs. No more dumb racing or jumping with motorbikes.

The city is cool, the drug business too...

The "blind rage" thing is just too sweet.... pretty reminiscent of many wrestling games with a "Spirit"-"Smackdown" thing for doing finishing moves... I seriously feel that Scarface without that "blind rage" would lack some tilt in that game...and they combine that golf-game meter -based action thing for negotiating-deposit money-selling drugs-defuse bombs...i didn't dig that at first but I got used to it...i restarted another game immediately just because it's just too cool to play Scarface...it makes me forget all the Dooms-Goldeneyes-Perfect Darks-Duke Nukems...I loved all those GTA games and I feel that Godfather and Scarface are just the cream of my crimefest-free roaming environment collection.

2. Rush 2 (Nintendo 64) ...If i can remember, that game got a "mediocre" rating here (slightly over 5  on 10) ....before GTA III , there was Driver and before Driver, there was the first GTA games with an overhead perpective (like the first Spy Hunter game)....and before GTA , there was....San Franscisco Rush. I know, its a racing game, not quite really a full free-roaming environment game....  a near free-roaming environment game on which a player can visit some hidden places in a track in practice mode to search for hidden keys and Mountain Dew soda cans.

Rush 2 is a racing game made in 1998 on the Nintendo 64 console. It featured 8 tracks from cities like New York, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Seattle, Hawaii, The Rock (San Franscisco island with the Alcatraz jail) and several hidden tracks. I bought that game when it was freshly released.

I dug the circuit mode with the records stuff, I replayed that game a lot. The nicest thing I found on the early Rush games was the crazy shortcuts a player can take on a race. Sure, the graphics are now dated, I think I still can have fun again with a Rush game. Rush 2's charm is the cities themselves included in the game, so cool to jump between the WTC's two towers, to take a shortcut or a visit on Vegas Strip, the Hawaii park with the white statue, getting through Wall Street and Central Park as well as Los Angeles' Downtown and Sunset Strip, blazing through Seattle hills and highways...

Another nice addition to the game is the keys and Mountain Dew cans hidden in every track ...that allows to unlock more powerful cars...a player could do crazy jumps to get those things. Once I unlocked the Hot Rod car (a 1930-something Ford-like hotrodded car with a flame paint like in San Fransisco Rush), I redo the circuit mode for raising record status.....

For sure, there was the first Gran Turismo game released earlier that same year that set standards in racing games, on the other hand, I still can enjoy Rush 2 for being a fun arcade racer with a good choice of cities. Because of Rush 2, I feel it was that game that made me play Driver and GTA games. The environment thing of course.

3. Tetris Worlds (Game Boy Advance): A reviewer here rated that game between 1 and 3 on 10, because of a silly thing he felt "it ruined the game"....totally biaised opinion, that mister used to play Tetris since the Eighties and felt that a "piece spinning" that can delay the dropping of a tetrad at a last instance just before it would be dropped at all could ruin that game....purist's mistake!!!!!!!!

Several Wal Marts still sell the Game Boy Advance version of Tetris Worlds for a lot less than $20. I am a longtime Tetris fan too and I feel that Tetris Worlds is an enjoyable game. It have 6 modes and ... one of these modes is the Square Tetris , the same square-based Tetris game of a Nintendo 64 called The New Tetris, that game that got a rating of 8.1 here. And I loved The New Tetris too.

And other reviewers rated it over 7 on 10....

4. WCW vs nWo: World Tour: Oh yeah, I know, another N64 game...that game that launched a revolution in wrestling games got a mediocre rating of 5.7....

I dug with passion the Aki Corporation engine that most game critics praised... that engine lasted between 1996 to 2003, from PS1 's "Virtual Pro Wrestling" and "WCW vs. the World" to "Def Jam Vendetta" and "Galactic Wrestling".... it marked the biggest N64 sellers like "WCW/nWo Revenge", the biggest-selling "WWF WrestleMania 2000" and the game that I'd consider it as the greatest cult wrestling game , "WWF No Mercy". That Aki engine really started with WCW vs.nWo : World Tour , that engine vastly improved when compared with WCW vs. the World.

A thing I really dig in "WCW vs. nWo: World Tour" is that it's a multi-league wrestling game with arenas, and it have true legends and Japan stars into it, it's obvious that "Saladin" is really Abdullah The Butcher....

The blood was a cool thing in that game as well as the moves, the possibilities of doing reversal and escape moves, the rules settings as well as how I can win a match (the cool TKO, submissions and so), it made me almost forget all those 2D wrestling games I used to play often on the NES and the SNES. I forgot another cool cool thing :"the "Spirit" system to do finishing moves as well as dominating your opponent.

And a great multi-player game too.

5. Gauntlet-Seven Sorrows (PS2):

It was rated a mediocre rating of over 5 on 10 here. Why? Because of the "Diablo" games ?

I had a ball with the hack-and-slash thing in that game. I'm conscious to write an opinion on that game as I never played a single Diablo game myself. I was addicted a lot to Gauntlet Seven Sorrows. My girlfriend made me discover the old Gauntlet games when I bought the Midway Arcade Treasures games on PS2 and we had a ball going through levels and so....

Happy to share my game tastes....there's lots of games that had been rated badly and I wanted to "reinstate" some of them, to say that they are fun games at all to play.