{"id":4219,"date":"2015-05-22T15:34:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T15:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:04:04","slug":"5-more-sadly-overlooked-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/5-more-sadly-overlooked-games\/","title":{"rendered":"5 more sadly overlooked games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, we brought you a few games that had been sadly overlooked. Unfortunately, there are plenty more where that came from &#8211; as this post proves!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dead-head-fred.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4220\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dead-head-fred.jpg\" alt=\"Dead Head Fred\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dead-head-fred.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/dead-head-fred-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><b><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><b>Dead Head Fred<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s fair to assume that more or less any PSP exclusive is overlooked but the lack of love for <i>Dead Head Fred <\/i>is especially upsetting.<\/p>\n<p>You play as a decapitated chap named Fred (unsurprisingly) hunting for his murderer. Along the way Fred has to beat up zombies and steal their heads; each head you steal can be attached to your neck to give you exciting new powers. You can also learn how to play the sax and raise mutant chickens &#8211; yeah, it was that kind of game.<\/p>\n<p><i>Fred<\/i> wasn\u2019t exactly the most polished of games but it was original and we\u2019re fully in support of anything that keeps John C. McGinley on our screens.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <i>Dead Head Fred <\/i>sold poorly and we haven\u2019t heard much about it since \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/condemned.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4221\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/condemned.jpg\" alt=\"Condemned\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/condemned.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/condemned-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><b><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><b>Condemned: Criminal Origins<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>As one of the first games on the PS3 and Xbox 360, <i>Condemned <\/i>had a real opportunity to become a leading franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, there wasn\u2019t much of a market for games about deadbeat cops investigating murders in nightmarish dreamscapes and the game doesn&#8217;t get nearly as much credit as it deserves.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a shame, because <i>Condemned<\/i> is terrifying, has a decent story and plays great too. The only ray of sunshine is that you can pick it up for dead cheap these days.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/overkill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4222\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/overkill.jpg\" alt=\"Overkill\" width=\"800\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/overkill.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/overkill-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><b><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><b>House of the Dead: Overkill<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s because you don\u2019t get the ultra cool toy guns at home, or maybe it\u2019s because the acting is horrible, but everyone\u2019s favourite arcade series has never been that popular on home consoles.<\/p>\n<p><i>Overkill<\/i>, a Wii exclusive for over 2 years, attempted to change that. Repurposing the shoddy acting into a grindhouse-style plot, <i>Overkill<\/i> was the best <i>House of the Dead <\/i>game in ages.<\/p>\n<p>True to form, it flopped. The game was eventually ported to the PS3, mobile and Windows but still failed to gain any kind of attention. It did earn one dubious honour, though: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/03\/16\/house-of-the-dead-overkill-has-most-swearing-ever\/\">the most swear words in any game ever<\/a>. Unfortunately, it lost the title a year later to <i>Mafia II. <\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/50-cent.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4223\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/50-cent.jpg\" alt=\"50 Cent\" width=\"800\" height=\"451\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/50-cent.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/50-cent-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><b><\/b><\/h3>\n<h3><b>50 Cent: Blood on the Sand<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Wait, don\u2019t go! Unlike Fiddy\u2019s first game <i>Bulletproof<\/i>, which was terrible, <i>Blood on the Sand<\/i> is pretty good\u201d\u00a6 as long as you approach it with no expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Gameplay-wise,\u00a0<em>Blood on the Sand<\/em> is fairly unremarkable; imagine <i>Gears of War <\/i>with Fiddy and you\u2019re more or less there.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the story that steals the show, an insane tale in which Fiddy is ripped off by a concert promoter before murdering countless people to get his hands on a crystal skull worth $10 million.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OjZCScqS2CU\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><b>Skies of Arcadia<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Everyone loves pirates and most people love <i>Final<\/i> <em>Fantasy<\/em>-style<i> <\/i>RPGs. So why did no-one love <i>Skies of Arcadia<\/i>?<\/p>\n<p>Simple: it came out on two of the most overlooked consoles of all time. At first, it was a Dreamcast exclusive and a beloved one at that. When the Dreamcast went down the pan, <i>Skies of Arcadia, <\/i>like many Dreamcast games, was ported to the Gamecube.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps things would have been different if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ps2-skies-of-arcadia-canceled\/1100-2876256\/\">it was released on PS2 as originally planned<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Need to clear some space? Click below to <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/entertainment\/trade-in-games\/\"><b>sell games<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few months ago, we brought you a few games that had been sadly overlooked. Unfortunately, there are plenty more where that came from &#8211; as this post proves! Dead Head Fred It\u2019s fair to assume that more or less any PSP exclusive is overlooked but the lack of love &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[593],"tags":[1561,1585,1658],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5558,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions\/5558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}