10 Mediocre Video Games Saved By ONE Amazing Feature

Dark Messiah isn't a great game, it's a typical RPG with basic AI, a painfully average narrative, and visuals carved straight out of an issue of Fantasy for Dummies. Where it makes its mark is with the undeniably crazy combat which is more akin to bar fights than your typical Elder Scrolls-type battles.

The whole game emphasizes that you must use the environment to your advantage to the point there's not even a tutorial about sword combat, but twice it will tell you how to kick some poor grunt over a ledge.

You can make puddles of ice that cause enemies to comically slip then ragdoll over the edge of cliffs or into hazards, or you could blow a fireball into oil you spilled and set foes ablaze. You will swing your weapon to break beams of wood or rope to sent whatever they were supporting crashing down on the rag-dolled victims.

It's a massive amount of fun with so many physics-based items in the area you can throw or send scattering by plowing enemies through them with a big variety of weapons.

Dark Messiah Of Might And Magic is about as generic as a western RPG can get, but the combat system ensured it would stand the test of time and be remembered for far longer than it probably deserves.