10 Hidden Gaming Gems That You Totally Missed Out On

6. Minority Report

See that character, roundly Sparta-kicking his adversary straight through a plate-glass window? That was meant to be Tom Cruise. Alas the loveable couch-hopping maniac couldn't be corralled long enough to take part in a spot of voice acting or motion captured face-work, so instead the character model of John Anderton looked more like Thunderbolt Ross from the Hulk comics. However as the combat sections of the movie being few and far between save for an incredible chase-sequence, developers Treyarch decided to make genuinely one of the most fun 3rd person brawlers you'll ever come across. With essentially Havok physics (before they were named as such) and a bevy of ragdoll-animated bodies that flew across the various levels with the perfect amount of weight and heft, slamming an opponents head straight through a table before dragging their almost-lifeless body back from the ground to finish them in a pile of broken plant pots was...exactly as perfect as that description sounds. To get the most out of this you really needed to whack on the infinite health and toggled slow motion pass-codes though, just to watch every piece of furniture splinter and crack under the weight of many different bodies flying through them. The game is barely remembered for anything these days, but if you're looking for a pretty mindless foray into Western action-cinema by way of flying slow-motion roundhouse kicks that dispatching goons in the most satisfying of ways, you'll honestly never do better than this.
Gaming Editor
Gaming Editor

WhatCulture's Head of Gaming.