That last decade flew by didn’t it? The last 10 years has provided us with some good games, some great games, and some really bad games. It’s easy to remember the great games we’ve all played, but it’s even easier to forget the bad ones. Today, we’re going to remind you of those bad games.
The first nine games on the list are not in any order, but the last game we feel is the worst game of the last 10 years. The list starts from 2000. Sorry everyone, no Superman 64 on this list.
Sonic Shuffle was Bad
Sonic Shuffle
It was about this time that I began to lose faith in Sega and Sonic in general. Sonic as we all know it has taken a turn for the worse, but before Sonic was competing with Mario at the Olympics, he was competing against him on the Sega Dreamcast with Sonic Shuffle.
Sonic Shuffle was clearly aimed to compete with Mario Party at the time, but it failed and it failed miserably. The game was a hodgepodge of poorly designed mini games and long load times and overall it wasn’t very fun to play.
X marks the bad game
X-Squad
X-Squad was a game that had some potential, but it failed to deliver. The game was a 3rd person shooter and tried squad based combat and offered players bad control, cheesy cut scenes, bad voice acting, and very boring gameplay. Enough to make it a bad game.
It was the first PS2 game that really failed to impress and was just bad. It wasn’t too long after the game came out that it started showing up in bargin bins. Even at bargin prices, people still didn’t want to buy it.
Big Pile of Guano
Batman: Dark Tomorrow
One of the best ways to enjoy this game is just by avoiding it altogether. Even die hard Batman fans won’t touch this big pile of guano. Batman Dark Tomorrow was probably one of the worst super hero games ever.
Batman Dark Tomorrow was originally to be a Gamecube exclusive, but was released on the Xbox as well. It saw many delays before its release in 2003. When people finally played it, there were some that wished there had been another delay. It was bad, so bad they canceled the PS2 port.
The game itself seemed like it was incomplete and half way finished. Every aspect of the game, aside from the story seemed like it was either rushed or broken. Bad graphics, horrible control, atrocious gameplay, and bad level design help to make this one of the worst games in the last 10 years.
Wasn't Bad-proof
50 Cent Bulletproof
This game would sell purely based on who’s in it and not because it’s a good game. Anyone who bought it can tell you that it was an awful game. The game was just one more gimmick that fiddy had going, on top of things like his movie which was out at that time.
Most people, including the die hard fiddy fans were disappointed. The game made poor use of its licensed music and had many other problems to boot. With all it’s problems and horrible story, it’s great fit for this list.
Pointless Game
Pimp My Ride
The TV show was bad enough, why did it need to become a game? The game was just a lame attempt to make money off the “Pimp My Ride” name. The game itself was just a complete and utter mess and nothing could help pimp it out, not even Xzibit himself.
The game was basically playing the same minigames over and over and over and over and over. You get the point. When you finally got to pimp out rides it was thoughtless and not even fun. This game should have never been made.
Made U3E Look Bad
Hour of Victory
When you think of why you’re sick of WWII fps, think of Hour of Victory. Hour of Victory has the honor of not only being one of the worst WWII shooters, but it’s the first game to make the Unreal III Engine look bad.
The game is your typical WWII shooter and offered a boring, dull, unexciting atmosphere that made you want to just throw the game away. Hour of Victory is one of the most unoriginal games in the last 10 years. With games like this, it’s no wonder Midway went bankrupt.
Great Concept, Horribly Executed
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty
Turning Point is one of the biggest letdowns ever. The concept of the game was unique and interesting. Set in an alternate reality, where the Nazi’s invade the US because they never fight in WWII
The concept was interesting and had great potential, but the game was a complete disaster. The game failed mostly because of how the development was managed, or should we say how it wasn’t.
Joeseph Mauke who was part of the development team came out and said the game’s development was “horribly mismanaged” and that the whole project was a mess.
Turning Point‘s concept wasn’t enough to save it. It’s been branded with a mark of shame and that’s a shame because it could have been a good game.
WTF were they thinking?
Ninjabread Man
What we have here is a Gingerbread man as a Ninja on Nintendo Wii. What we don’t have here is a good game. That’s right, this is one of the worst games ever made. Ninjabread man is a lackluster platformer that suffers from the usual ills of bad games.
The game has a severe case of the “B’s” It’s not only bad, but buggy and broken and as much as you try to look past it to try and have fun you can’t. Ninjabread man is more frustrating than it’s worth.
This game bombed
Bomberman
What do you get when you try to remake a great classic like Bomberman? A really bad game. Bomberman on the Xbox 360 completely bombed. The game was a poor poor remake of an awesome game.
It’s almost certain that any gamer out there would rather play the original Bomberman any day over this one. There was so much wrong with the game and it’s a disgrace to the Bomberman series and video games a whole. This is why some classics should not be remade.
The worst game of the past decade is….
B-Hero = Bad Game
Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis
Are you a fan of Aquaman? Well this game is something not even the most die hard Aquaman fan would want to touch. Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis is just a mess all the way though. Can we even call this mess a game? I guess we have to for the purpose of this list.
TDK offered us something Aquaman, that something was a game with no depth, bad controls, and bad and repetitive gameplay. It seemed TDK had no idea what to do with this game and didn’t do a very good job at portraying Aquaman properly.
Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis is the worst game of the last 10 years. This will be a game that only the reviewers and a few poor fools played. You will more than likely see this game at your local game store sitting there on the shelf, where it’s been and will continue to be.
There you have it. Was this all the bad games of the last decade? Of course not! This was just a list of 10 that we here at HBG feel were among the worst.
We encourage you to share some games you feel were some of the worst of this last decade.
Dishonorable Mentions:
Soldier of Fortune: Payback
Sonic The Hedgehog (360)
Tony Hawk Ride
Two Worlds
Earth Defense Force
Anubis II
and many others
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