Games that Sustain from Last Gen

On 07/31/2013 at 04:27 PM by KnightDriver

2005 - Advance Wars: Dual Strike [DS]: If I was to be stranded on a desert island with a solar panel and one video game system, I would have the DS and Advance Wars: Dual Strike. Maybe with all that time on my hands, I could finally figure out how to beat this difficult turn-based strategy game containing some of the cutest cartoon tanks ever drawn.

2004 - Burnout 3: Takedown [Xbox]: I could never get tired of this game even if I was thrown in that prison pit from Batman: Dark Knight Rises with nothing but this game. My tormentors would soon discover they had made my day. Now if this game only had the Batmobile, it'd be perfect.

2003 - Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge [Xbox]: If I was Michael Collins stuck in the Command Module orbiting the moon while Buzz and Armstrong were having all the fun on the surface, and I was able to bring one game with me from the future, it would be Crimson Skies. Heck! After the first playthrough, I could use Xbox parts to enable the Command Module to make a low flyby of the surface and give those guys the scare of their lives. Now who's having fun mutha flackers!

2002 - Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance [Xbox]: If hell is being locked in a room with your friends for eternity, it would quickly become alright with a copy of this game to play. You could argue over who gets what loot drops or yell at each other to stop shooting each other in the back or taking all the kills. Hell becomes tolerable when there's conflict to be had. It's boredom that's the real hell and I could never get bored of this overhead view action RPG.

2001 - Halo: Combat Evolved [Xbox]: What is never dull, can involve one to sixteen people, and plays on one or more TVs. It's the first Halo of course. Seriously, you could put me in a diving bell 20,000 fathoms deep with fifteen divers, and as long as there was Xboxes with Halo on them, I would be able to survive. Even as I watched my fellows get taken one by one by the tentacles of the giant squid until there was just the two of us left, I could still laugh at the way my grenades cleared a bridge on Assault on the Control Room as my last diver friend narrowly escaped death in a Banshee. "Almost got you there," I would say. He would laugh and then scream as a tentacle pulled him from the diving bell. I would be forced to play solo one last time knowing my turn was next, but I would not be bothered. Halo is just as good solo.

2000 - Hogs of War [PlayStation]: If I had to be in the trenches of a war while bombs were coming in all night long, I could get along with a cable line of power for my TV and a Playstion playing Hogs of War with my fellow soldiers. The funny sounds of Rik Mayall saying, "This Potato is for You", would even bring a few of the enemy from the other trench to join in on the 3D turn-based multiplayer fun before they had to go back for the big push the next morning. All differences are forgotten when you have a bunch of hilarious pigs in uniform screaming rediculous taunts at each other.

Matt Snee Staff Writer

07/31/2013 at 06:14 PM

ha, playing halo while being attacked by a sea monster? I can see that.

KnightDriver

08/01/2013 at 01:51 AM

That monster will have to pry that controler out of my cold dead hands before I give it up.

Super Step Contributing Writer

07/31/2013 at 06:33 PM

My favorite Batmobile is the penis-shaped one that drives up walls. And at least at the time, I liked the movie it came from.

I was also literally five and a huge Jim Carrey fan, but still.

08/01/2013 at 01:55 AM

I guess you mean this one from Batman Returns. Batmobile

08/01/2013 at 03:58 PM

Batman Forever, cause I never saw Batman Returns, but basically, yeah. lol

daftman

07/31/2013 at 06:49 PM

I haven't played any of these gems lol but I played the first Advence Wars, so I know Dual Strike is good. I have Burnout: Revenge, Dark Alliance, and the Anniversary edition of Halo, but I haven't played any of them yet. And if I ever do get an original Xbox, Crimson Skies will be on my shortlist of games to get.

08/01/2013 at 02:03 AM

I love Dual Strike but I've never beaten it. I'm going to play all these games again sometime soon and I think I'll look up a walkthrough. I've heard other people say how the Advance Wars games are like puzzles where you have to figure out just the right combination of units to win a map. That seems to be true in my experience and it frustrates me a little bit because I like to improvise and be rewarded for doing so. Still, I love the presentation of Advance Wars. It's like playing those Avalon Hill war strategy board games that I used to play.I couldn't find anyone to play with me though and I would just move units around the board and play against myself. Advance Wars reminds me of those times.

08/01/2013 at 06:50 PM

Advance Wars is my older brother's favorite series. He's beaten all the games on their hardest settings. He's really good! Needless to say, I never play against him in strategy games anymore lol

08/02/2013 at 03:26 AM

Damn! That's hardcore man. I can't imagine doing that, but I want to.

GrayHaired

07/31/2013 at 09:24 PM

Halo is an awesome game and one of these days I will be able to play it again. I really really enjoyed that game.

08/01/2013 at 02:05 AM

I have to pick up the Anniversary Edition again for 360 and go achievement hunting. I never did 100% it.

F1r3inth3H0L3

07/31/2013 at 11:02 PM

Halo will always be one of my favorite games because it is the first time that I have ever played LAN. We would hook 4 Xboxes together and get 16 people and play. I remember the first time that we did everybody was excited and yelling. It was awesome.

08/01/2013 at 02:10 AM

I actually never played much strict multiplayer. I played a ton of co-op though with a buddy of mine every weekend for three years, playing from the beach landing on Silent Cartographer through Assault on the Control Room. Something new always happened to make us laugh and shout. I got my first big screen TV just to get more viewing space while playing split-screen because, unfortunately, you couldn't play the campaign missions co-op via LAN.

transmet2033

08/01/2013 at 11:24 AM

My only taste of Burnout was Revenge and I spent a little bit of time with Paradise. Revenge is one of my favaourite racing games ever... I wish they would release another sequel.

08/01/2013 at 03:12 PM

I had such a weird thing with Revenge. Coming off of Burnout 3, I didn't like it, but a few years ago, I jumped back in to Revenge and wondered just what the heck I was thinking, because it is fantastic. It's easily as good as B3, if not better. It has all the essential elements of a Burnout game. Burnout Paradise didn't capture my attention when that came out, but I'm going to go back to it again someday and probably wonder what the heck I was thinking, again.

TheMart22

08/01/2013 at 01:34 PM

My friends and I played Halo split screen for a year straight. I think we found every possible nook and cranny in that game, amazing. Funnily enough, I think this much play time is the reason I never really stuck with the rest of the series. I thought Halo 2 was kinda meh and Halo 3 was an improvement but nothing drastic. I think its the SP story of the first Halo that does it for me. The world they created was so vivid and the backstory to the game was great. I built it up so much in my mind that nothing was ever going to live up to my expectations.

Also, Burnout Takedown was and is AMAZING!! I'm not sure I ever played it sober (being in college & living with friends at time of release) but I had many a late night playing that game.

08/01/2013 at 03:17 PM

I felt the same way about Halo. As time went on, my involvement with the games declined steeply. The story in the first game is very straightforward. There's a mystery to uncover and a clear enemy. The ending is epic and I'll always gape at the final cut scene. It's so Star Wars, or really any great space adventure.

Ranger1

08/02/2013 at 09:33 AM

I have to say that I haven't really played any of the games on your list. I gave Halo a try and didn't really care for it, but then again, I quickly figured out that I'm not a fan of FPS.

My games for the ages would have to be the first three Ratchet & Clank games.

08/02/2013 at 03:26 PM

Excellent choice! Those games are always high on my list of games to play.

PixlBit

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