1. Battlezone2
Why?
> Extremely rare and very effective blend of FPS and RTS gameplay.
> Ridiculously good and ahead-of-its-time graphics.

2. Wheel of Time
Why?
> Excellent use of the Unreal engine with a lot of stunning designs.
> Proper fantasy game atmosphere.
> Interesting and challenging magic combat.

3. FAKK2
Why?
> Excellent use of the Q3A engine with a wide variety of impressive scenes.
> Original and exotic locations and unusual monsters.
> Good balance of puzzles, exploration, 2 handed combat and very violent fighting. 

btw what made you think those games are underrated 

1. Forsaken

Good graphics for it's day
Multiplayer was excellent, SP wasn't all that bad either, but...
hmmm, flying, Titan, gravgon, transpulse, MFRL, solaris, pinemine, hmmmm, ahhhh!! 

1. Cube
duh
2. Moonbase Commander
simplicty is underrated
3. Golden Eye
I played this game with my brothers for at least a hundred hours. Games more highly rated than this one didn't get nearly as much face time. 

I`d actually put goldeneye in the most Overrated games category. 

heart of darkness, so far 

1. Gothic 1 & 2
> these are the best RPGs ever made imho, yet noone outside of germany has even heard of them

2. Total Annihilation
> Totally annihilates any other RTS, yet people keep being stuck on *craft, C&C and their clones.

3. Jedi Knight I
> one of the finest SP FPS experiences out there, yet not as popular as it should have been.

I guess a reoccuring theme is that all 3 games (and other games people mentioned, even cube) had substandard looking graphics for their time... oh the shallowness of gamers. 

Total Annihilation is by far and away the greatest RTS i have ever played. Its gameplay is difficult to fault and lends itself perfectly to multiplayer. It has a great modding scene, and hundreds of fantastic units have been made (see the TAUCP pack, among others), including my favorites, the mighty K-Bots Karganeth and Orcone.

Seriously, if you don`t own TA (the original, not the imo inferior sequel TA:Kingdoms), i very strongly you pick it up immediately, it`ll only cost you �5($8?). 

it doesnt say it has to be FPS. ok so my game is

tadada..

Transport Tycoon.

/a round of insults, tomatoes, eggs, grandpas underwear follows...

well, cube. yes. and screamer 1 and 2(yea so the italians brought you a game which crashed alot and the cars where unbranded but it was still good fun). sorry, i like old-ish games. 

Though it did have rather good graphics, for its time - hundreds of articulated, 3d units moving over fully 3d (albeit pre-rendered) terrain.

Also:

Hardwar - Elite-in-a-city, with a whole economy and an optional plotline; though with some obnoxiously bad UI design, and dated graphics.

The Longest Journey - best adventure game in recent memory. Not difficult, but an excellent story. 

1) TA - For the hours of network play, amassing PeeWee and watch the metal fly

2) Battlezone - Again excellent multiplay, Howitzers rock (never really tried number 2)

3) Red Faction - This game had me hooked until I completed it. 

ICO. 

ICO
REZ
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus 

Damn Im lost with abbreviations...