15 Most Underrated Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)

3. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

The first entry for developer Platinum Games on this list - 100 cool points if you can guess which title is coming up later - but it's not without merit. Basically when Konami announced there was going to be a Metal Gear spin-off not directed by themselves, everyone feared for another Twin Snakes-style travesty; a game that on its surface was MGS, but had nothing of the sort at its core.

Instead, Platinum are a developer who know how to inject their own flair to proceedings whilst paying tribute at the same time, here taking the basic 'ninja Raiden' design from MGS 4 and running to score a touchdown with it. Basically if the sentence "...and then he grabs the Metal Gear Ray and throws it clear across the city" does anything for you, Rising is your game.

Just a huge excuse to take the sensibilities of Raiden's debut scene from Guns of the Patriots where he dispatches enemy Gekko units by slicing them with his feet, every scene in Rising is custom-built to be the most fan-pleasing explosion of character-mashing possible.

There may not be any signs of Snake showing up throughout, but when the in-game answer to why a boss is so powerful comes back as "Nanomachines, son!" you'll be hard-pressed finding a more self-aware tribute to the mythos in existence.