10 Underrated Video Games That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

By Scott Tailford / December 13, 2019

2. Metal Gear Solid

Metal Gear is far, far from being an underrated game, but it's easy to forget that underneath all those crazy plotlines and robo-dinosaur boss battles, is a directorial flourish that showed video games can easily rival Hollywood, and then some.

Crafted by auteur Hideo Kojima, he showed how to bring a level of cinematic immersion, storytelling, actually great voice acting performances from memorable characters - all elements that would force the industry's developers to sit up and take notice.

There's barely a story-driven game today that doesn't owe its methods, camera placement/cutscene direction, character presentation or overall feeling of cinematic quality to Metal Gear Solid, and that's something worth remembering.