Is Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis bizarre or classic? It’s the type of classic that feels bizarre when you first touch it, like opening a pristine NES cartridge and finding a hand-annotated field manual inside. Underrated or overrated? By popcorn-shooter standards it’s perennially underrated; by the standards of people who can identify an A-10 silhouette at 200 […]

Is Sim Theme Park (the PC release of Bullfrog’s Theme Park World) bizarre or classic? Both—like finding a perfectly preserved CRT under a sleek OLED, then discovering it still smells faintly of lemonade and solder. Underrated or overrated? In the long shadow of RollerCoaster Tycoon’s isometric empire, it’s absolutely underrated; it didn’t lose the popularity contest so much as

Is 4×4 EVO 2 the sim-cade love-child of a truck brochure and a Boy-Scout treasure map, or a forgotten curiosity that ended up skulking between jewel-cased Serious Sam copies in 2001 bargain bins? Both, obviously. It’s the only racer of its era that hands you a factory-fresh Tacoma, tells you to locate an archaeologist lost in the Yucatán, then

Picture this: a Soviet ZIL-based tanker sporting eight balloon tyres, cresting a golden‐hour sand dune like a mechanical whale, its chassis flexing in slow motion while the moon rises behind an adobe ruin. A Union Jack flaps from the tanker’s tailgate. Somewhere below, a jeep half the truck’s mass is screeching uphill, driver leaning on

Is Rayman 2 a bizarre fever-dream about a limbless hero rescuing sentient sushi, or a stone-cold classic worthy of the same platinum pedestal that holds Super Mario 64 and Banjo-Kazooie? Both, obviously, the game is equal parts Dali doodle and textbook 3-D platformer perfection. Underrated? Only if you’ve never watched a speed-runner fling Rayman backward through the Sanctuary of Stone and