10 Underrated Video Games That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

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.