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#7 Counter-Strike (Xbox)
"Hey guys, I've got a great idea! Let's take a popular free PC mod, shove it onto a console and charge $50 bucks for it! No one will care that they can play a better version of the same game for free!" No real-single player mode, only a handful of multiplayer modes, sub-par graphics, and this blatant moneygrab still managed to sell over a million copies.
#6 Resistance: Fall of Man
Resistance is one game on this list that's not awful, just not as good as its sales would suggest. A bland, unimaginative shooter that felt dated even as a launch title, Resistance succeeded not because it was great, but because the rest of the PS3 launch title was just that bad. Resistance's main selling point were its funky and creative weapons, which were neither that funky or creative. Most were so ineffective that I played through the majority of the game with the standard human machine gun. Were it not for the rest of the PS3's launch line-up shitting the bed so completely, far fewer gamers would have bothered with this overly linear run of the mill FPS.
#5 Any Tony Hawk game after Pro Skater 3
You know it. I know it. Even Activision knows it. The Tony Hawk games have been sliding steadily downhill for years now, largely because of the inclusion of crap like story, stunts and comedy that distracts from the actual skating. Hidden characters are fun and all, but when you build the whole game around them you get, well.. you get the screen you see above. Is it any wonder that Skate has displaced it as the number one skateboarding franchise - or that Tony Hawk Ride is the first true relaunch the series has ever seen?
#4 Gran Turismo 4
Blandness: The Game. This is what happens when you give an obessive-compulsive millions of dollars and years to make a driving game. It may have car models that are accurate down to the bolts under the dashboard, but actually playing it is about as much fun as playing with a dry bar of soap.
#3. Marvel Ultimate Alliance
It may have sold over 2 million copies on Xbox 360 alone, but that doesn't change the fact that it blows. After two solid X-Men Legends games, this follow-up shoehorns in every Marvel character you can think of, no matter how lame. Play as Invisible Woman and fight against Paibok, Kurse and Neutron? Whee. The RPG elements that gave the X-Men Legends games some depth were mostly stripped out, leaving a bland brawler with an incoherent story that felt like it was designed by Activision's marketing department.
#2. LEGO Anything
I won't single out LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indy, LEGO Batman, or any other once and future LEGO game - they're all terrible. But they're so cute, you cry! They're so funny! I love seeing hilarious LEGO versions of famous movies scenes. I get that. But what you love you could get from a YouTube video. As games, the LEGO titles are just awful. How many times have you jumped in the same pit over and over again because of the one-two punch of floaty jumping and bad camera angles? That's bad game design, folks - and it hasn't gotten any better since the first game. Strip away the beloved Star Wars or Indy license, and no one would play these pieces of shit.
#1. Wii Play.
Let's be honest, you bought it for the controller. I wonder if there's a single person out there who has actually played this piece of shit more than once before putting it back on the shelf - or throwing it in the trash can. To call it a glorified tech demo is insulting to some of the very cool tech demos out there. Wii Play is straight-up crap.
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#7 Counter-Strike (Xbox)
"Hey guys, I've got a great idea! Let's take a popular free PC mod, shove it onto a console and charge $50 bucks for it! No one will care that they can play a better version of the same game for free!" No real-single player mode, only a handful of multiplayer modes, sub-par graphics, and this blatant moneygrab still managed to sell over a million copies.
#6 Resistance: Fall of Man
Resistance is one game on this list that's not awful, just not as good as its sales would suggest. A bland, unimaginative shooter that felt dated even as a launch title, Resistance succeeded not because it was great, but because the rest of the PS3 launch title was just that bad. Resistance's main selling point were its funky and creative weapons, which were neither that funky or creative. Most were so ineffective that I played through the majority of the game with the standard human machine gun. Were it not for the rest of the PS3's launch line-up shitting the bed so completely, far fewer gamers would have bothered with this overly linear run of the mill FPS.
#5 Any Tony Hawk game after Pro Skater 3
You know it. I know it. Even Activision knows it. The Tony Hawk games have been sliding steadily downhill for years now, largely because of the inclusion of crap like story, stunts and comedy that distracts from the actual skating. Hidden characters are fun and all, but when you build the whole game around them you get, well.. you get the screen you see above. Is it any wonder that Skate has displaced it as the number one skateboarding franchise - or that Tony Hawk Ride is the first true relaunch the series has ever seen?
#4 Gran Turismo 4
Blandness: The Game. This is what happens when you give an obessive-compulsive millions of dollars and years to make a driving game. It may have car models that are accurate down to the bolts under the dashboard, but actually playing it is about as much fun as playing with a dry bar of soap.
#3. Marvel Ultimate Alliance
It may have sold over 2 million copies on Xbox 360 alone, but that doesn't change the fact that it blows. After two solid X-Men Legends games, this follow-up shoehorns in every Marvel character you can think of, no matter how lame. Play as Invisible Woman and fight against Paibok, Kurse and Neutron? Whee. The RPG elements that gave the X-Men Legends games some depth were mostly stripped out, leaving a bland brawler with an incoherent story that felt like it was designed by Activision's marketing department.
#2. LEGO Anything
I won't single out LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Indy, LEGO Batman, or any other once and future LEGO game - they're all terrible. But they're so cute, you cry! They're so funny! I love seeing hilarious LEGO versions of famous movies scenes. I get that. But what you love you could get from a YouTube video. As games, the LEGO titles are just awful. How many times have you jumped in the same pit over and over again because of the one-two punch of floaty jumping and bad camera angles? That's bad game design, folks - and it hasn't gotten any better since the first game. Strip away the beloved Star Wars or Indy license, and no one would play these pieces of shit.
#1. Wii Play.
Let's be honest, you bought it for the controller. I wonder if there's a single person out there who has actually played this piece of shit more than once before putting it back on the shelf - or throwing it in the trash can. To call it a glorified tech demo is insulting to some of the very cool tech demos out there. Wii Play is straight-up crap.
