10 CRIMINALLY Overlooked PS3 Games

You know you're destined to remain a cult classic when you have exactly enough hype to generate interest for a remaster, but not enough to energize interest for more. This is the sad (but also kinda funny) fate of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning.

Much like Vanquish, the expectations for this game's success right out of the gate were simply too high for a brand-new IP. This was compounded by the fact that, at first blush, there wasn't anything to set it apart from other fantasy game franchises out there. Compare this to 2008's Dragon Age: Origins; which put the witty character writing and dark, bloody tone front and center in every advertisement it had.

The appeal of Kingdoms of Amalur only makes itself apparent once you're waist-deep into the game. The best thing about Amalur is the gameplay and world-building. You control an adventurer who should by all rights be dead but isn't. And with that cosmic accident comes the ability to break fate - helping the otherwise helpless and saving the otherwise doomed. Gameplay is a remarkably deep spin on RPG hack-and-slash gameplay. Not the most complex thing in the world, but enough to get you hooked.

Kingdoms of Amalur was unfairly overlooked in its heyday, but the good news is that the new remastered edition means that this can be corrected.