Round 2 Bracket 19

[Nebuchanezzar]

Maniac Mansion (PC)

V

Call of Duty 2 (multi-platform)

[Paul]

Having never played either, I'll contribute to the votes anyway and go with Manic Mansion. It was the start of a wonderful genre: the adventure game. I could do without the war genre myself, really.

[bovine_university]

I can't say I've ever really bought into any of these war shooter games. When I'm going to shoot someone in a video game, I prefer fiction to history (the fact that these games became a dime a dozen after a while didn't help either). Still Maniac Mansion has more than enough variety, quirkiness, notoriety, and ingenuity to easily take this bracket.

[skittlebrau]

It's Maniac Mansion, dudes! Such an uberfun game with great replayablity factor and oozing awesome nostalgia.

Microwaving hamsters is fun.

[kupomog]

Maniac Mansion for it's major fun and replayability and I love such types of adventure games. Genius game. CoD2 is fun and very fast-paced and for me has the best, most accurate system of gameplay in FPS (which probably doesn't say much because in general I don't play much FPS). But in the end, while I hate to say it, it is just another FPS to me compared to Maniac Mansion.

[sacrelicious]

Microwaving hampsters is fun. Maniac Mansion gets my vote here, but I can't help to wonder when its luck is going to run out and it runs into a Zelda game or something like that.

[Channel Surfer]

Yeah, I'm going with "Maniac Mansion" here too. Even with some of its era restraints - especially its minimalist writing - it's still a surprisingly deep, rewarding game I think. But, just as importantly, even with the flexibility and open-ended nature of the game what with separate characters influencing different outcomes and all the misleads and goofy shit around (the nukeable hamster, the chainsaw, etc), it's still a very contained game. Which means, considering how many fat, bloated games there are out there that don't know when to end (especially story-driven games), it actually encourages replays, and holds up very well even now for its accessibility and easy length.

[MasterMarc]

Call of Duty 2!! Come on, it needs to pull off an upset right now!

[Tino]

Call of Duty, I mean best WWII shooter ever. Number 2 was great, and I am looking forward to the fourth one.

[erock]

I could do without the war genre myself, really.

yeah, I'll go with maniac mansion. there really are a lot of war games out there, call of duty is one of the better ones. but i'm just not into that stuff.