• So let me get this straight. You say Killzone 2 only sold 750k copies as of Dec 2009 (the article was written in 12/21/2009), but the game came out on 02/2009 and sold over 1 million copies in 04/2009 (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/16/killzone-2-sells-more-than-one-million-copies-worldwide/) Did you do your research properly?

• On KZ being all revolutionary, what did it do AI wise that Gears of War/(Unreal engines 2 and 3) or the Half life 2 engine(HL2/L4D) didn't already do? BTW: Graphically, PC will always rule there. I utterly disagree on Prototype. That game was awesome. Getting to wreak such chaotic havoc on a simulated New York City was great(Body slam a tank off the top of the UN headquarters, Check.) Scribblenauts - Eh, even just watching the videos on it you can pick up that it's the kind of game you want to try for 5 minutes, but will get old pretty fast. Brutal Legends - one of the perennial rules of console gaming: RTS games will suck. Most of the gaming world knows this and lives by this. Pity too, if they had kept the first bit of the game all the way through it would have been great. On Dragon Age: I guess if you don't like making decisions or like RPGs then this ain't for you. The Characters were great and had real character. The topper was that the game remembered who you were and what you did. If you were the dwarf noble origin, you got different treatment from the dwarves. If you played the mage opening, the people at the mage tower would remember you, and more importantly, whether you left with a clean rep or a bad one.

• Come on, this is a criminal oversight. WHERE is Dragon Age:Origins? TV spots, clothing, cross-promotion (that stupid Blood Dragon DLC you can use in ME2) you name it - THAT was hype, for what turned out to be a very average RPG riddled with cliches and remarkably little fun. It stank of generous corporate hospitality sprayed like manure at lazy journalists. The fact that the adverts didn't show any gameplay were a dead giveaway, looking back.

• First time to this site, last time to this site. It's not the article, it reads fine, an expresses good opinions. It's these commenters. It's cool guys, don't use fact or reason in your comment. Just blindly defend whatever console you own. Jackass fanboys.

• Brutal Legend is a good game, and it is sad to see that it has sold 500k only. I enjoyed it, and I wish more people did too.

• @above: "This is just blatantly false. KZ2's multiplayer works better than practically any other multiplayer game I have seen. It can't be considered broken...(though I realize that there are people who say this about every multiplayer game.) KZ2 has a very strong reputation in regards to lag. It is just as rare as seeing lag in MW2. " have you ever even played MW2 or KZ2 online? apparently not. MW2 has lots of lag if youre playing with international players, and KZ2 has lag even when playing with local players. they hide it well in KZ2 with client side hit animations and client side hit detection, but its still there - you can see it when you shoot people and they drop dead 1-2 seconds later, but not before killing you as well, so you both drop dead. thats lag. the multiplayer is broken for a few reason: 1. the aforementioned lag 2. the rocket spamming. everyone just uses rockets. 3. the spawn camping. some games you come on and literally die before you can run 2m, as people just camp at the spawn points. 4. noone goes for the objectives, just try to get as many kills as possible by spawn camping and rocket spamming. 5. the 'class' system is rubbish and unbalanced. i dont care about clans, im not a complete nerd who has their little "clan wars". if you think KZ2s multiplayer works better than practically any other multiplayer game youve ever seen, you havent seen many. you obviously havent seen Halo 3, thats for sure.

• I usually don't post comments about this kind of stuff but I saw this (in reference to KZ2): "the multiplayer was broken, laggy, unbalanced, and after about 10 hours of play you had leveled up to the top rank and had nothing more to do. " This is just blatantly false. KZ2's multiplayer works better than practically any other multiplayer game I have seen. It can't be considered broken...(though I realize that there are people who say this about every multiplayer game.) KZ2 has a very strong reputation in regards to lag. It is just as rare as seeing lag in MW2. The most blatantly false statement though is that there is nothing left to do after 10 hours of play. That is what the clan system is for. I can't recall any other game with a built in clan system...(though I'm sure there are a couple)..The replay value in the game is endless, or atleast until KZ3 comes out.

• Agree with about everything except Riddick and GTA. Episodes from Liberty Cities were amazing and in my opinion was UNDERHYPED.

• MW2 is not over hyped, best selling game of the year, and go to youtube games channel and see how many MW2 video is on the most watched list

• Killzone 2 is the most overhyped game ever. This has got to be the worse game on the ps3. It sells 500000 the first week and 750000 total. How long has this been out now? That is what an overhyped game is. GG if you want to challenge me, don't messed with the ps3 controller and do it like ever one else. Find other way to make the game challenging and don't make the game feels so heavy. I carry a LMG and i fells like an elephant, i carry a pistol and i feel like an elephant.

• absolutely, brutal legend was the most hyped below average game ever in game history. no one i know played it, it got tons of press yet few bought it. odst stands as a marketing hype machine that halo fans bought without care. dj hero showed us we have no more room for plastic gear that costs more than the real thing. killzone2 was long hyped but the multiplay was fraking fun. the single play had its moments and the vistas were cool. i would switch out killzone2 and but in mw2.

• admin, delete killzone2 comment.offensive and arrogant.

• I don't remember anyone except me getting hyped for Brutal Legend around where I live and I wasn't disappointed, I was surprised at how fun it was. Plus it's marketing sucked.

• where the hell is MW2??? it may have been a good game but the hype-fest was unbearable... and KZ2's story was not generic... and gta was just a rehashing of what people already had, of course it didnt sell all that well this list sucks

• Killzone 2 is cleary the 2nd game of the year, after Uncharted2.

• I think Kill Zone 2 has been purposely added to the list for more traffic. If I am right then I don't care but if I am wrong you are a DOUCHEBAG. The sales dropping doesn't means the game is generic and bland, the sales are going to decline someday so according to you some day MW2 is pretty generic and bland.

• sorry but killzone2 is not overhyped.the game had poor commercials and inconsistent advertisings.technically the game has set the bar higher (multiplayer and single player)among fps.if you don't like the game and you find the game bland,sorry but this is your personal opinion (metacritic score is 91 and killzone2 is in the "all-time high score"). remember good sales is not = good game.I believe that call of duty modern warfare 2 fit perfectly in that list.

• Ehhh... I must have missed something... Weren't video games made for having fun ? Are u all guys looking for games that receive the best marketing support or r u choosing games according to your very OWN taste ? Hyped... Over hyped... Under Hyped... Fucked hyped... What does that really means... Let spend money on development costs and paying artists. Fuck the hype, fuck marketing and bring me back to the 80's, when technical limits forced developers to make engaging games, when developers actually made games for fun... pfff

• Finally someone speaking the truth about Killzone 2. I am sad to see Mad World on the list, but I have to agree... I loved the art style for the first hour or two, but then the gameplay turned stale. It was traded in even before I had completed it.

• JOE u r a genious bro. post of the year! best comments i ever saw on a game site

• Thanks for this list, I'm laughin to myself scanning through comments of people who are realizing they play shitty and average games and they don't know how to deal with it

• this is the worst list i have have seen. You clearly have no idea what you're talking about. Nice job pissing anyone who remotely follows videogames off you hack

• The rationale behind many of the picks is poor. The author doesn't seem to know what it takes to make a game and how many copies a publisher expects to sell. Some of the picks seem overhyped...to a person that doesn't understand the videogame business.

• I agree with Madworld, and saying that, it's on the Wii which is full of crap to average games anyway. The Halo games have never done it for me, mind boggling what anyone sees in them as to me, they just seem to be average first person shooters. Most games are hyped anyway, more so the Call of Duty games. I think 2009 has been quite poor for games, nowhere near as good as 2008. I'd say the most hyped franchise of all time has got to be Final Fantasy. Games like that and also stuff like Mass Effect and Elder Scrolls, just send me to sleep with all the running about, making decisions (Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz).

• gota agree with this list very good kz2 that game was very good and addicting and it reached its target render nice. but realy no game could live up to that games hype it was halo3 all over again. where tha hell is mw2 that game was so hype it hurt my brain and it was basicly the same game again.

• Ok I didn't read anyone's comments so this may have been said.....This is supposed to be overhyped games. Games like DJ Hero and Scribblenauts were not hyped at all. Loved KZ2 but it was overhyped to the maximum. MW2 was also wayyyy overhyped, like I'm sure everyone else has stated.

• Ok for 1 Killzone 2 was overhyped but not as much as MW2 that game sucks the campaign was way shorter then killzone 2 and any 360 fanyboy who says we PS3 fans didnt get what we want with killzone 2 your wrong we got exactly what we wanted an awesome game, that along with U2: AT, and MGS4 has made PS3 a amazing console the thing with xbox fanboys is they dont relize that the only thing thats going for them exclusive wise is mass effect which is also PC and better on PC by the way and halo which now blow.

• "ODST gets the 10th spot on the list because its hype and marketing was relatively low for the series..." Didn't the author contradict himself here?

• I agree killzone 2 was overhyped. Maybe if there was a co-op campaign it would have been better. Prototype was a very shat game, bland graphics and all together looked dumb. DavidMcPhail is a douche. Uncharted 2 had the best campaign I played this year. The story was solid and gameplay was awesomely detailed. "GearsofIndianaJonesResidentEvilTombRaider Edition". Really? Your a fuc$ing dunce.

• David McPhail, Uncharted 2 was the same boring, bland gameplay as the original. It ripped so many things off from different game and genres, I'm surprised they didnt call it Uncharted 2: GearsofIndianaJonesResidentEvilTombRaider Edition. Oh, and Killzone 2 did suck. Beneath that pretty exterior, was a dumb blonde with baggage.

• @Cameron: Uncharted 2 was fun, no doubt about it. was it worth playing? sure. do i want to play through it again? not at all, as its so linear that any further play throughs will be 95% the same as the first time i did it. does it deserve game of the year? IMO, and that is one of a video game fan - not a video game console manufacturer fan - who has owned (and still does own) basically every console released since the atari 2600 through to the PS3, it does not. that honour would go to Borderlands, Modern Warfare 2, or Forza 3. Borderlands brought the loot grabbing Diablo gameplay to the consoles, with gorgeous graphics and art style, fantastic multiplayer, and pretty much never ending campaigns. Forza 3 is just car porn, pure and simple. with a steering wheel, big HD tv, and a good surround sound system it is just pure automotive bliss. the graphics are unrivalled, the driving experience is as close to true to life as has ever been done, and the whole experience is just fantastic. Modern Warfare 2, well its just Modern Warfare but dialled up to 11. Single player was short but incredible, but this game was always going to be about the multiplayer, and it doesnt disappoint. more weapons, more killstreaks, more levels, more challenges, more awesome. i know ill be playing this for years, until MW3 comes out. Uncharted 2 was a throwaway experience. its all so scripted and straight forward that it couldve just been a b-grade movie. that might be what you want in a game, you probably also thought MGS4 was the bees knees, but its not what i want. i want to be in control, get to make my own decisions about how i want to accomplish the in-game goals, and not be treated like im a toddler by being only given one way to go at all times. if i wanted to have a linear A->B->C experience, id just watch a movie. like i said, maybe thats just me?

• WTF ? killzone 2 and gta episodes from liberty city are not overhyped

• @ Joe - Uncharted 2 was the game of the year, every website, awards show and tv show has claimed that. can they all be wrong? no - its you that's retarded. @Soh_Knee - I take it you're another bitter xbot nerdy fanboy who is bitter about owning his 7th broken xbox and needs to whine about sony on the internet? PS3 owns the games industry in terms of actual quality games that people want to play. xbox is ful of mediocrity that just barely gets people's attention with overhype.

• I would add literally any Playstation 3 game. They just don't sell. PS3 fanboys are too busy RUNNING THEIR MOUTHS to buy their consoles games apparently.

• ahhh david mcfail, i was wondering when youd show up. uncharted 2: among crash bandicoot, was a disappointment after all the hype. it was just uncharted 1 with a new coat of paint, and uncharted 1 was just 'action adventure gaming for dummies'. hmm where do i go now? i know, that trail of suspiciously highlighted bricks that are blatantly sticking a foot out of the wall over there, making a path conveniently all the way to where i need to go! hmm now what? oh i have to autojump to that platform, where ill slip off the edge and my partner will dive in and catch me at the last second in a nice little cutscene, just like he/she did 2 mins ago. and 2 mins before that. and 2 mins before that. now what do i do? oh i have a little 'arena' style shootout with enemies who will throw grenades with pinpoint accuracy the second i have been in the same spot for more than 15 seconds. maybe ill get stuck to some cover with the horribly clunky controls?

• Joe is a moron, that is all. Uncharted 2 won GOTY because there's nothing on the Xbox 360 that can come close in terms of graphics, story, characters or overall quality and there never will be. Halo 3: ODST definetly deserved to be on here. Charging $60 for a piece of DLC that only lasts 15 minutes? Yup, i'd say that qualifies as overhyped. Heck, calling Halo 3 a game is over - hyping it! Same online as every other Halo but with one new map and a different character skin.....LOL. Only a complete dolt would defend such a game.

• I don't think anyone is disappointed for the DLC (read it again: DLC) Tales from Liberty City. DLC in general undersells the main title, or does/would the writer want to include all of the Fallout 3 DLC titles if they were exclusives too?

• @cyborg6971: ive played the game, beaten it single player, and reached the top rank in multiplayer in 10 hours of online play, going by the stats provided by the game. this was before they just went and added 3 more levels on top that would take hundreds of hours to get to, but since they dont unlock anything at all theres no point. they only added them because everyone got to the top level so quickly and got bored. you needed like 3000xp to get to the top rank when the game first came out....then they added a level for 100 000xp? thats just getting desperate and trying to force people to keep playing. the controls are not fine. there is at least 0.25s input lag - you press the trigger, it responds 0.25s later. that is just unacceptable. and you dont have enough 'momentum' in your arms to create the ridiculous 'weighty' controls that they put in the game.

• @joe stfu you phaggy troll if you would have played the game (kz2) u would have know it takes more than 10 hours to get to the top rank and the controls r fine and way better than the water gun shooting of cod and halo. Ot this list is a huge fail. If we were in Germany it would be an über fail.

• I'm not arguing how good or bad "GTA: Episodes from Liberty City" is or isn't. I'm only throwing in my two cents because it's reasons for being on this list is just illogical. I'm not sure if whoever put this list together is even familiar with this particular release... To be more specific, there are many reasons why this disc didn't have as high sales as the usual GTA disc. Those reasons really don't reflect how successful these games were at all. Both the games on this disk were sold as Down-loadable Content on Xbox live. Sales for the DLC's were much higher than the sales of this disk. One of the games on the disk had been available as a DLC for something like 9 months BEFORE the disk was released. The other half of this disk was simultaneously released as DLC the SAME TIME as the disk. Simply put, the majority of the people who were interested in these expansions already owned half of the "Episodes from Liberty City" disk and so skipped the disk and just got the other expansion as a DLC as well... saving much money in the process. It comes as no surprise that the ALTERNATIVE "Episodes from Liberty City" disk didn't sell a significant amount of copies.

• The reason nobody related to the "heavy metal" theme in brutal legend is because it was all old heavy metal crap from the 70's and 80's that they used for the "theme"

• Did you actually play any of these? Or are you just vomiting up bits and pieces of reviews you read online. Your arguments for games being overhyped are like blah blah didn't sell well. We're in a recession. The industry as a whole is suffering, next time, play some games and learn what you're talking about.

• But in another article called '15 Games that Defined the PlayStation Brand', KZ2 was branded a AAA game. You said here "The fact that the PlayStation 3 also had some of its best exclusives yet later in the year made Killzone 2 even more forgettable" but in the other article it is said that "The game has no doubt secured the Killzone franchise a future and gave Sony another AAA game to add to their improving PS3 line-up". Oh well, I guess if Sony flip-flip on their decisions so can this site.

• I don't know how Madworld counts as being overhyped, since the marketing has been almost non-existent (article says it had clever commercials, but I'll be damned if any of them weren't Internet-related) and Nintendo fans labeled it as an 'gory, shallow beat-em-up' as soon as it was announced. And as for the 'Sega took a big gamble trying to prove that Wii gamers were interested in hardcore games. Apparently, they weren't' comment, I seriously doubt this game would have sold more on the 360/PS3. It doesn't have any guns or online modes.

• And Killzone 2 DEFINITELY deserves to be here. it was the most hyped game of the last 5 years thanks to the target render and the PS3 fanboys desire to have something on their console that was better than the competitions. turns out they didnt get what they wished for. the single player was short, boring, and generic. the multiplayer was broken, laggy, unbalanced, and after about 10 hours of play you had leveled up to the top rank and had nothing more to do. the controls are the worst part though. any game with 0.25s of input lag is not worth the disc its printed on.

• Thank god Halo 3: ODST made the list, hats off to the author. Although i feel Modern Warfare 2 should be on here as well, in place of Killzone 2.

• Very quickly, EA Games is the sloppiest gaming company that I can think of, the best thing about COD:MW2 is graphics, multiplay is ok, I would have to agree though, single play is bland - actually multi in mw2 reminded me of counterstrike [a really dressed up version]

• The first one of these type of lists that I've read, and I gotta say. The only people that give a damn about everyone who is bashing MW2, are the ones who have no life and criticize ratings online. You are all gay. That is all.

• I would even put Uncharted 2 on this list. its a pretty enjoyable game, but its a carbon copy of the original Uncharted just with better graphics and multiplayer. its still just crash bandicoot for teenagers, as youre always on a linear path thats made to look 'open world', and theres never more than 1 way to do anything. im not so sure about ODST being overhyped, as i didnt really see that much hype for it since most sites/publications new that it wasnt a standalone game. i was actually very pleasantly surprised with how it turned out too, the single player was a nice change from previous Halo games, and Firefight is just incredible.

• Killzone 2, Scibblenauts, Ballad of Gay Tony over-hyped> I am not sure you understand the meaning of the phrase. Did 7-eleven have collectible cups, did Burger King do a value meal, whenever you watched television, no matter what channel, did you see a commercial? The answer is no. I could go on but most everyone here seems to realize you are an idiot with nothing to write about so I am going to go play some games. Something I suggest you should do, before writing about them. You should probably be writing about Brittany Murphy or Hannah Montanna.

• I'd put Arkham Asylum on here. It's not bad, it's just not that memorable.

• Try playing the single player of "generic" KZ2 the way you play Halo or CoD and you will die, again and again. The AI and cover system are both the best I have ever played, and combined with the weighted controls make for as non-generic an experience as can be.

• Two of these are a stretch for me. Killzone 2 and Prototype. Yes K2 was super hyped but it offers one of the better online multiplayer experiences exclusively on the PS3 and turned out to be pretty good which was more than I expected. Prototype I heard almost no press on until it released, game play is entertaining and offers a fun sand box environment. I'll give you the rest of the list but those two shouldn't be on there.

• Thank god Halo 3: ODST made the list, hats off to the author. Although i feel Modern Warfare 2 should be on here as well, in place of Killzone 2.

• "the single-player campaign was unsatisfying, bland and generic." He should be talking about CoD MW2.. That perfectly describes that game(throw in short too), not Killzone 2. I don't see how people brand KZ2 'just another shooter' unless they have an agenda in doing so - the art direction is no match for any other game, animations, lighting and effects blow everything else out there away. I guess this guys' paid vacation to the beach in California to review MW2 made the game not generic, of course he wants to go again.

• I can't honestly say I agree with anything on this list. Maybe, just maybe ODST. Not much was overhyped this year. The only game that really comes to mind is Modern Warfare 2. On this list, I only own Killzone 2, but the graphics were just about as good as the target render (textures were a bit worse, but effects like explosions and dust were better) and the single player was not bland or generic. I can agree on unsatisfying though. If you want a bland or generic campaign, play through Call of Duty.

• IS THIS A FUCKING JOKE! I though I've been seeing articles like this recently because MW2 was the most overhyped thing I have ever seen! And I keep getting shocked that MW2 isn't No.1 or even on the list! Killzone 2 was overhyped but it was a good game! If GG released it at the start of the month and fixed the controls and added about 5 more missions and fixed some of the annoying things in multiplayer (Your EXP isn't saved if you quit a game half way through or even after you've finished your match!) then it probably would have won GOTY! Go and play Killzone 2 Skirmish 1 VS 1 and just explore the map, the graphics are amazing! It is dark and gritty and not as vast as Uncharted 2 so people don't think it is as good!

• I have to agree with you on Scribblenauts. When I first read about this game I was super excited. I love puzzle games, and the idea of solving puzzles with anything I can imagine seemed awesome. Less than two days after getting the game, I was bored with it. I really wanted to like the game, but I found myself underwhelmed to say the least.

• Yeah and where in the blue hell is MW2 on this list. Talk about a game that did not in any way, shape or form live up to the hype that it was given all year. Jeez..Huge oversight there bub. MW2 was alright but didnt come close to living up to the massive hype it was given.

• Thank God Killzone 2 made this list, hats off to the author.

• Killzone 2 is not Generic you douchebag.

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