10 Underrated Video Games That Were Way Ahead Of Their Time

7. Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

In a literal meeting of the minds, two telekinetically-powered titles were released within months of each other back in 2004. Free Radical's Second Sight took a stealthier approach to occasionally letting you mind-slam a soldier or two off the walls, whereas Midway's Psi-Ops was a physics-based sandbox of unlimited potential.

Years before Steam Greenlight would take off with any number of quirky ideas and just as games were beginning to showcase the radgoll physics-based delights of the Havok Engine, Psi-Ops let you pick up enemies and objects, immolate them, possess them and so much more in between.

The likes of Dishonored and Just Cause 2 would make their names on treating the A.I. like a plaything, but it was Psi-Ops that managed to build an entire game around manipulating not only your enemies, but chunks of the environment, too.

Exploring the world around you by flying around on a mind-controlled crate? Lobbing a piece of a broken statue at foes like a giant, deadly bowling ball?

That was Psi-Ops, and it's criminal we never saw a sequel.