We return once again with a new top but this time we will talk about very bad games, so bad that we must avoid at all costs
Bad games have always existed and on all consoles. Even a bad game almost destroyed our beloved industry (yes ET, that’s you). For this reason, after making two tops talking about good and underrated games, now it’s the turn of those not so good games and when you have them in your hands, you seriously rethink your life. Hardly anyone likes bad games but I have to admit a guilty pleasure. I’m part of that small percentage that loves bad games, amused by their failures and poorly implemented controls. After these harsh statements, I have to say that with many of the titles you’ll see on the list, I enjoyed playing them. It’s like watching a movie on a Sunday afternoon, they’re terrible, but it’s a good thing you’re wearing them for a good nap. Remember that the top is randomly ordered, so the game that ranks first is not necessarily the worst. After all that, here we go with the new top:
10. Ride in Hell: Punishment
We start with a typical list of such lists, but it has to be yes or yes. Ride to Hell: Retribution is a game introduced in 2008 and developed by former Rockstar members. The title was going to be about action and driving in the open world, like GTA, but controlling a member of a biker gang. Something went wrong, and soon after, the title was revoked. But in 2013, Deep Silver and developer Eutechnyx brought the project back, launching it the same year, swapping the open world for a more direct, linear adventure. The result is simply outrageous. Outdated graphics, bugs everywhere, poorly implemented and boring gameplay and just plain embarrassing sex scenes. It looks like the devs took an alpha of the canceled title, added a couple of bad things to it, and released a $69.99 product. Just embarrassing.
9. Drake of 99 Dragons
Drake of the 99 Dragons is a game a little unknown to the general public, but it is better to stay that way. This action-adventure title was released in 2003 for the original Xbox and received very poor reviews. Before making this top, I remembered this game for how bad it looked to me and took a look at its average on Metacritic, and it’s the lowest rated game on the Xbox of origin. That doesn’t surprise me at all. The game was developed by Idol FX and published by Majesco Entertainment.
In our adventure, we control Drake, a murderer from the 99 dragon gang who is betrayed during a robbery. The story isn’t bad at all, but where the title fails miserably is in the gameplay. Drake will be able to control two guns with two hands, but each gun will be controlled with a different button and stick. This makes the aiming system very clunky and chaotic. The title could be classified as virtually unplayable. The graphics were also not exceptional for the time of its release, in addition to having a multitude of bugs.
8. Fighter Within
Put simply, the Xbox One boot was a mess, and the mandatory Kinect with the console was one of the main reasons why. Well, Fighter Within is another example of such bad decisions. This title edited and developed by Ubisoft was complete nonsense. Fitter Within was released in 2013 alongside Microsoft’s new console, Xbox One. It was only possible to play with the Kinect motion sensor, which was included with the console. And that would be his Achilles heel. The movements we made with our body were not detected correctly and this made this game a real nightmare.. Also, due to its low supply of modes and fighters, we get bored of the game after a few hours (if not before due to its gameplay). Kinect had a lot of possibilities, but they were really badly executed.
7. Amy
Amy is a clear example of what could have been and wasn’t. The title developed by the French company VectorCell and published by Lexis Numérique did not meet (or even come close to) the expectations generated. When Amy was introduced to the public, she made a very good impression, in addition to quite high expectations which were ultimately not met.
The game had some great ideas, but they were fatally executed. Amy was a survival horror title with touches of action and stealth. In her story, we will control Lana, a woman who must protect Amy, an 8-year-old autistic girl, from a world plunged into chaos, since a strange infection has struck the population. The story was not bad, mixing survival and corporate conspiracies, but it failed in everything else, both graphics and sound, passing through lousy gameplay, where most of the time we died because of the problems of the game, and not of ours.. Too bad, because this Amy painted very well.
6. Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis
Aquaman: Battle of Atlantis is big fat nonsense. And it is that this title starring the marine superhero does nothing good. The game was released in 2003 on the original Xbox and developed by Lucky Chicken, who didn’t have a great resume to be honest. With this context, everything went wrong. The graphics were horrible, bad even for a PS1, lacking in story and what’s worse, very poor gameplay. The game consisted of swimming the seas of Atlantis, with totally lousy control, finding a series of enemies, fighting (mechanics that weren’t saved ei ther) and repeating again
5. Gene rain
To be honest, I haven’t played Gene Rain, but when I informed my fellow writers about this top, my colleague Miguel Osorio told me about this game. And after reading his analysis and given the gameplay of the title, I said to myself, we must add that at all costs. The only salvageable thing about Gene Rain and what it looks like his Chinese-born developer Deeli Network has spent all of his budget on is the graphics. The voice acting is distracting, sound effects that are conspicuous by their absence, and gameplay that mimics Gears but doesn’t even reach shoe height.. I was able to verify all of this myself just by watching two gameplays of the game, but if you want more information on the title, Miguel talks about it in more detail in his analysis. The truth is that I have a mad desire to buy it and see how bad it is.
4. Horse racing 2016
Yes my dear readers, what you can see above is an Xbox One game. Here a server bought this game for $1.99 because it had so-called easy-to-obtain achievements. But when I got in control of such an aberration, the 2 or 3 hours it took me to get its 1000G felt like millennia. There is nothing good about this game, its graphics are sickening and its gameplay feverish. The game consists of pressing the A button like crazy to win the race and when our horse is tired stop pressing it for a few seconds to start again when rested, repeating this until you have Completed all tracks in the game. Everything is ugly in this game, PS1 graphics, no sound… Even the HUD is ugly, with that horse looking more like the Emule downloader’s donkey than a horse.
3. Double Dragon II: Wandering Dragons
The Double Dragon saga has returned to Xbox 360 in somewhat embarrassing fashion. Double Dragon II: Wander of the Dragons was launched in 2012 as a remake of the second installment of the famous saga of me against the neighborhood. What could have been a great overhaul of a classic from bygone eras ended up being one of the worst games of all time. The game was catastrophic, becoming almost unplayable. It had completely outdated graphics that looked like they were done with some reluctance. But the worst and what seems to me the most serious personally is what they did with the gameplay. Korean developer Gravity has made combat as easy as possible, so rIt was totally boring and totally inferior to the original title. Also, the controls were unresponsive and the animations completely sucked.
2. Batman: Dark Tomorrow
If we ask our readers right now for the best superhero-based video game out there, the majority answer would be any game from the Batman Arkham saga. But before Rocksteady Studios’ work, Batman had a murky past. Batman: Dark Tomorrow was launched in 2003 and DC Comics, tired of releasing very bad games, wanted to make a much more ambitious and good video game with this Batman, but everything went wrong. The development was done by Kemco and it was a complete disaster. The game was released only on GameCube and Xbox, with the PS2 version even canceled due to the status of the title. The biggest problem with this game was its controls. And is it Batman: Dark Tomorrow was a mix between Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid. We controlled Batman with very orthopedic tank-like controls, with very basic and bad combat. Stealth was also terrifying. The only thing salvageable was his story.
1. Fast & Furious: Showdown
Fast & Furious: Showdown was released in 2013 on Xbox 360 taking advantage of the theatrical release of the sixth film in the famous automotive saga. Video games based on films and television series are generally of poor quality (some are not). I especially like this kind of games. They are entertaining for an afternoon and if they are cheap, they are recommended. But this title is a real horror. It’s an action-racing video game, with impossible chases, evasions and jumps, but everything is fatally resolved. The graphics are worth eg. A game from the latest Xbox 360 batch that felt like a PS2 launch. The controls were horrible, the vehicles handled terribly, and the action scenes were resolved with QTE. But the most negative aspect of Fast & Furious: Showdown was the AI. It was very easy to complete the game (which lasted 2 hours) since our opponents looked like chimpanzees, making the whole adventure very boring. Years later, Fast & Furious: Crossroads was also released on Xbox One, another lousy title in the saga, but this one is even worse.
And here is this new personal top of the worst games available on all Xbox consoles released so far. I left many titles in the dark as they may be Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust, Soda Drinker Pro or Infernal Hell´s Vengeance, although we will leave the door open for a possible second part. And the fact is that there are a lot of good games, but there are also bad ones. From ComunidadXbox we would like to know what are the worst video games that our readers have played, so do not hesitate to let us know.
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