Brutal Legend was going to be the perfect game. By mixing heavy metal, free roaming and Jack Black, Tim Schaefer was gonna give us the game of the century. Unfortunately the game while entertaining to a certain extent was plagued by broken gameplay, bad level design, horrible framerates, and a quasi RTS mode that received a ton of flak.
Wolfenstein
We waited a long time for a sequel to Wolf and after all these years when you get a passable, generic shooter it’s kinda disappointing. What’s worse is the fact that multiplayer in this game was so terrible I couldn’t play it for more than an hour. And this is coming from the same franchise that set the benchmark for MP games back in the day.
Saboteur
Pandemic’s final game was a game ripe with potential but failed to deliver on any front. Everything from the stealth mechanics to the free roaming mechanics to the visuals felt subpar and broken leaving behind a bitter taste in our mouth.
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
I loved F.E.A.R. to death so naturally I expected a lot from the sequel especially since it was being developed by Monolith themselves. Stupid me! While I did get a decent action game at the end of the day, it was nowhere close to the awesomeness that was F.E.A.R. be it in gunplay, destruction, multiplayer, story or atmosphere.
The Wheelman
I’m a huge Vin Diesel fan (yeah I said it) so when I heard he was gonna star in a free roaming game I wet my pants. Sadly I wasted those pants for nothing as the game was clichéd, monotonous, generic and repetitive. And it didn’t even look good.
Damnation
Taking the action to new vertical limits was the tagline Damnation was bundled with. It should have read taking the action to new levels of suck. The game was so bad Nik needed a bit of therapy after he was done with it.
Now I know I shouldn’t have high hopes for movie to game adaptations but even with my low standards the games mentioned below were disappointing as hell:
LOTR Conquest
Worst use of the Lord of Rings name ever.
Avatar: The Game
Such wasted potential, it made me sad.
G.I. Joe
So bad I wouldn’t even recommend it to my enemy.
Terminator Salvation
Generic, bland, boring and repetitive.
