10 Overlooked Video Games That Were WAY Ahead Of Their Time

1. Legacy Of Kain: Soul Reaver

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If something is not done, then the Soul Reaver series truly will be lost to time, and we cannot allow that to happen!

Soul Reaver was a triumph of a game series for its time, with many current games still copying its gothic, thought-provoking homework. In the early days of the PS1, when games were still emerging into the risky, strange world of 3D, the Legacy of Kain series kicked down the door with Soul Reaver, a gothic tale of revenge, destiny, and the unbreakable wheel of causality and fate.

The gameplay has not aged that well, granted, but it's not like other revolutionary games like Goldeneye 007 have any room to talk.

Soul Reaver revolutionized storytelling in gaming and then came back to do it even better for its sequels. And after its story was told, it faded into obscurity. Nowadays, getting your hands on copies of these games is incredibly difficult, but oh so very worth it. Soul Reaver is one of the founding fathers of modern video game gameplay and writing, and deserves to be appreciated as such.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?