System: Nintendo 64
Genre: Shooter
I didn't expect to love this as much as I did because I wouldn't have said 3rd person shooters were my favourite genre. I'm sure the general cutesiness and lack of real gore helped (green bug blood and bouncy ant heads don't count) but it's simply a great game. The bosses are tough but satisfying to defeat, the tribals are cute but infuriatingly fragile and the atmospheric music matches perfectly to the alien levels. Most of all it was just enjoyable to play, the controls worked well, the weapons felt right and even I enjoyed the splatter of blood from an exploding group of ants.
