What's the most underrated sport videogame of all time?
I have 2 picks: PES (yeah it was big in Latin America and Asia but never truly beat FIFA popularity worldwide except in the early 2000s), if I had to pick a specific version, is either PES 2010 or 2013, 2016 was also great. FIFA street 1: Almost 2 decades later and still think it’s the best FIFA game ever, not even the street sequels were able to surpass it.
Cyberball. Football, but with robots.
I liked Basewars on the NES. Wiki says it got a B- but I liked the fighting and the fact that you could blow up the robots.
The arcade version of Cyberball has very clean gameplay with a wry sense of humour.
Side-by-side play is excellent on a Cyberball 2072 cabinet.
The spiritual predecessor, 10 Yard Fight, is pretty fun too(shake joystick to break tackles)
I love Ten Yard Fight. It’s like the dev team in Japan had one guy who “totally knows American football!” and he explained it to the rest of them while they were all out drinking, and then the next day they were provided with 5 minutes of footage from the Burt Reynolds version of The Longest Yard.
But all in the best way.
I’m not sure if it’s underrated but Mario Tennis Advance for the Game Boy Advance is a gigantic standout for the series.
It’s an action RPG from the same company that made the Golden Sun games for the GBA. The usual fun power hits and tennis mechanics with some of the tightest controls in the series with quality world building and the kind of RPG satisfaction you’d get from a company like Camelot.
Ha, I came here to post Pyre, and I love no two people have the same way to describe it.
My favorite is Darren’s “Wizard Basketball Plus Reading”.
I call it by two names, depending on how cheeky I’m feeling that day
Cheeky one is “hashtag-Basketball4Freedom”
Non-cheeky one is “one of three video game stories that made me legitimately cry, like straight up bawling – With a fantastical version of NBA Jam bolted on the side”
NFL Blitz 2000!
With a crap ton of random cheats enabled, of course. Really this game is the only good thing to come out of football or the NFL.
That was just called Ice Hockey. That’s the one I played most on NES.
Blitz the league 2.
Was a departure from og blitz but was my childhood. Violent football with emphasis on injury and dirty play
Fun if a bit cringy story looking back. Having to pop your players leg into place with mini games and getting a sniper elite level cam when you injured someone.
More unknown and underappreciated in the current era, than underappreciated at release.
Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe on Amiga, was an outstanding future brawl-ball simulator.
I’m counting Discs of Tron as a sport.
Very fun disc battles.
Exciting hour(aka Mat Mania) was awesome for the time.
Fast paced and difficult, until you work out their attacks.
Mutant League Football on the Genesis. The then-current Madden engine, but all the players are pulled from some sort of sci-fi horror comedy, while still somehow very tuned in to the history of the NFL.
Bribe ref to stall your opponent’s drive.
Murder ref to get things back on track.
Avoid those land mines!
Shame that PES/WE not only got renamed to eFootball, but also sufferred from the post-Kojima PTSD at Konami.
It recently caught up to DDR and it’s slowly catching up to Yu-Gi-Oh as well (if it didn’t already).
Rally’s a sport, nobody mentioned DiRT Rally 2?
One of the best sims ever
Wii Sports
I think I’ve never played so much of a mini game collection that’s meant to teach you controls. Maybe Solitaire comes close. The Tennis matches we had were legendary.
Never see anyone mention it so I’ll go with Hyperblade!
Futuristic combat skating game that was played in stadiums akin to the inside of a rugby/american football so you had high sides for doing tricks, goals at each end and hazards in the middle.
Hazards I hear you ask? Why yes! Spinning gates with blades on them to hurt your opponents and various other objects caused a small amount of bodily harm and bleeding. This led to a viable strategy of simply killing the opposing team.
Bonus points if you decapitated them too - literally. You could use opposing players heads to score more goals. Hilarious and probably not suitable for an early teens kid but I think I mostly turned out ok.
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