The Worst Video Games of the Past Decade
Mar 19 '07
The Bottom Line Please don't buy these games. If you're buying one as a joke for a friend, you're probably going to end up with one less friend. Don't support these companies!
Sometimes a game will come out that is so crappy that a dung beetle would avoid it. Luckily, lately games haven't been too dreadful, but the past ten years has been filled with some pretty crapalicious games. I give you, the top ten worst games of the past decade!
10. Bomberman: Act Zero for the Xbox 360
Bomberman: Act Zero remains the worst game on the Xbox 360. Bomberman gives you the same premise as the old ones; try to outsmart your enemies by planting bombs. Too bad your enemies know where every bomb is and every hiding place to avoid your bomb and they almost never make mistakes. The only real way to destroy them is to trap them with an articulate puzzle of bombs. The main game mode has you go through 99 levels of doing the same thing over and over again in the same environment. You only have a few lives to get through all of these levels and you generally have to face about four people per level. You don't have any continues after your lives are up so good luck beating all 99. You'll probably make it to the fifth level before you turn the system off. I can't imagine seeing seeing many play this game if it were released as an arcade title. Now with its fifty dollar price tag, I have yet to see any of my friends play this. The graphics look like an early generation Playstation 2 game and they replaced Bomberman with futuristic alien creatures. Everything about this game is crap.
9. Space Raiders for the Gamecube
Space Raiders is the sequel to the '70s arcade classic Space Invaders, but Space Raiders doesn't show much of an improvement over the original. Porting a 25 year old game with only some graphical enhancements just doesn't work. The game does have a story mode, but it takes about 2 hours to complete. I'd rather play the original any day!
8. KISS Pinball for the Playstation
“James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous.” -Gene Simmons
KISS Pinball is the worst pinball game ever made. The game is marred by poor physics, horrible graphics, poor framerate, but most of all, lack of KISS. The only thing that the game has in common with KISS is that there are a few pictures of the band on the two pinball tables that the game offers. Being a KISS game, this should have some KISS music right? Nope, the music is a series of random guitar riffs and some singing by a completely different band. I mean come on KISS! Record fifteen seconds of audio and advertise new KISS music on the cover and your game will sell millions! If you purchase this, be prepared to KISS it goodbye.
7. Kabuki Warriors for the Xbox
With a world filled with great fighting games, what's the point of playing a crappy one? Kabuki Warriors was one of the worst games to come out for the Xbox. The fighting system consisted of two buttons, a regular attack button and a special attack button. With its extremely mediocre battle system and repetitive and boring gameplay design, there really is no reason to ever play Kabuki Warriors.
6. Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots for the Game Boy Advance
Is the youth of America just getting too lazy? For what is probably the same price as the toy, you can get the virtual version of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots. The Game Boy Advance version of the toy emulates the experience perfectly, but what is the point when you can just get the game and see actual plastic robots punching each other? If you repeatedly mash the A punch button over and over you will kill your enemy so there is no skill to the game. At least in the toy it was actually fun to beat up your friends and it had some skill. Why take that fun away and give a fastest pressing of the punch button contest?
5. Elf Bowling 1 & 2 for the DS
If you are making crappy bowling games, you probably are in your first week of your freshmen year at a game development college. Who plays these bowling games? Since Bowling on the 2600 until a few years ago, pretty much every bowling game was the exact same game with different packages. Then Elf Bowling came out on the DS, which had a unique twist that had you bowling elves instead of pins! The game is a port of a free online PC video game that came out in 1999. It even comes bundled with the crappy sequel! They were crappy games back then, they are crappy games now. Elf Bowling features nothing fun. It is a bowling game that you would expect to see as a mini-game. Bowling elves! What a great idea!
4. Drake of the 99 Dragons for the Xbox
Drake of the 99 Dragons is a third person shooter where both the movement and the aiming is controlled with the right thumbstick. After they realized the absolute suckage of this aiming system, a broken auto aim was added. Drake never aims where you want him to aim. Sometimes you will run into a room and you take out your guns to kill the guys in front of you, but the game will automatically aim behind you. The aiming system would have been such an easy fix! However, even if fixed, this game would have been lame due to its extremely shallow missions where you just run from point A to point B while killing everything in your path.
3. Superman 64 for the N64
The people at Titus achieved their goal of putting almost no time into this Superman game, solely for the purpose of stealing thousands of kids' hard earned cash. The main objectives in the game are flying through tons of rings and picking up people in danger. Not only is this extremely boring, but the controls in the game are some of the worst of all time. Top all of this off with several glitches where you travel through tons of walls and an absolutely horrible combat system.
2. FBI Hostage Rescue for the PC
FBI Hostage Rescue features the worst artificial intelligence of all time. The game attempts to be a SWAT impersonator, but fails miserably. You must run into a series of rooms, shoot all the bad guys, and then rescue the hostages. The problem is, the hostages are so dumb that they can't be rescued. They'll attempt to follow you but instead they'll run into walls, run in a completely different direction, suddenly disappear, get stuck on a crack, refuse to move, or float and get stuck in the air. It can easily take you ten tries to get past the any level because there is almost always some type of glitch that happens with the hostage. Don't the developers play the games before they release them?
1. Big Rigs for the PC
This game are winner! Developed by a practically unheard of company, the people who created this crap have managed to keep a low profile and not expose their identities. The game is completely unfinished and has no redeeming qualities. It is supposed to be a racing game, but when you get into the race, your opponent never moves. You are just stuck on one of the few levels just wandering around in your big rig. You can't hit any jumps because of the lack of a physics engine. You can't crash into things because there is no collision detector. At times your big rig will randomly fly into space. If you actually try the race, there is no way you can lose because there is no time limit and no artificial intelligence in the enemies. When you complete the race a screen pops up and says “You're Winner!” The torture session that is Big Rigs is only about 20-30 minutes long, but good luck getting through it. So how's the sound in the game? Come on, give us some big rig noises and a little C.W. Mccall. Nope, the game has no sound effects and plays looping techno tracks. There are no redeeming qualities to this game. Don't you dare give in to the $10 price tag!
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