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By the fourth installment, the initial praise from critics and fresh take on the overused alien invasion trope had grown stale and nonexistent. Path of the Furon was a mess of a game, in fact it was hands down the worst the series had to offer.

By the time it rolled onto shelves in , no one was having it. Among some problems are the repetitive missions, missing sounds and general likeness to any other GTA inspired sandbox without any real contributions being made.

The whole thing seems like a rushed product but at the end of the day, it still plays like a Destroy All Humans! Ubisoft has been a hit or miss developer throughout their time in the video game industry. The company is heavily panned by some, while beloved by others. But a company that puts out so many games is bound to put out some misses every now and then.

The game was criticized by some as being racist. Not the best publicity for a game. Some sequels turn out better than the original. They take all the faults, all the criticisms and make a genuine effort to improve upon them. Some sequels actually regress from the original.

Instead of improving, they rehash the same gameplay or even make things worse by comparison. The game lacked the range of weapons, enemies and missions found in the original.

First Person Shooters are a pretty diluted and therefore competitive market. In terms of your basic FPS, Payback is at least somewhat competent. Apart from its repetitive nature, the A. The exaggerated ultra-violence was a nice touch though.

Simulation games have come under fire as their popularity has grown. Goat Simulator is exactly what it sounds like. An indestructible God-like goat that can wreak havoc on the unsuspecting populous like some sort of farm animal Godzilla. Well they did send you back in time to fight in those battles, but it was hardly what people expected of it. While experiencing these battles and events, the player attempts to stop some key historical figures from biting the dust. In fact the game gives you a pretty short leash and plays out very much like any other linear shooter on the market.

But we suppose if you're a history buff, you might like elements of this one at least. Alright, so here we have a pretty unique entry on our list. Many games come out every year with the hopes of being good. Developers put hours into creating, testing and finally polishing their final product in an attempt to reflect their efforts and please their fans. The racing part of the game looked good, which added to the franchise, but the choppy and stuttering video that transitioned missions and propelled the story felt like an old portable CD player without anti-skip technology.

The chosen actors were weak, charmless, and very unlikable. Shadow the Hedgehog was another notoriously bad video game with commercial success on this list. Released in November , Shadow sold over two million copies in a little over the year. Shadow has the traditional special attacks like Sonic, but can also use weapons, which many critics found as a strange addition to the Sonic universe. Not many were keen on the dark storyline, weaponry, themes, and controls either.

The Xbox had a catalog of great games; players can probably name five off the top of their head. No matter what amazing game you think of, Kinect Adventures! The Kinect was the motion capture camera used with different types of games.

Basically, you could use your body as a controller to play games, but it was not that popular. Kinect Adventures! For Star Wars Battlefront II , the graphics are the only thing that might convince a player to buy this game. Everything else that it offers will turn you off. So, at launch, gamers clamored to get the game loaded up, but what they found was basically a system of paying for loot boxes.

Some players have reported over 30 hours of grinding for merely one character. Or, you could just give EA your money to buy the loot boxes or characters. Maybe this fueled sales for Ubisoft? Across various review sites, this third incarnation of the franchise received high marks, but most magazines and critics had many of the same things to say about the problems.

The game became the most pre-ordered game on Amazon up to the date of its release and day one sales broke PC records, with 6. So clearly, fans were ready. Some fans of the series even criticized the brighter and more colorful graphics that were changed from its predecessors. The game is still played today, but the numbers have decreased since the date of its release. Many games on this list are sequels or spin-offs of some sort. In Dr.

Mario, the game has players manipulating pills to combat viruses that are slowly taking over the screen. Getting similar colors together eliminates the viruses and you must get rid of all of it to move to the next round. The concept was new, even in Fans of Nintendo and Mario games flocked to play it, with most falling off from the repetitive gameplay with little variation. Mario on every console and many portable console systems. The version of Sonic the Hedgehog was supposed to be a reboot of the franchise celebrating 15 years of the series.

Unfortunately, the game was a critical miss. Just about the whole game was disliked: the camera system, the story, the controls, and loading times. If you want a real shock to your system, you should try out these Bad Games , collected by the tone-deaf masters here at Silvergames.

According to some people, good or bad is only a matter of perspective. One man's trash is another man's treasure. But make no mistake, you will be doing a lot of bad, bad things to get to the end of a level here. Whether it's blowing things up, pushing monsters onto nasty spikes and into their death or just stealing fruit from bumbling monsters.

Nothing you do here is entirely well-intentioned and good-hearted.