Top 10 Most Disappointing Games of The Last Decade By PT_Tesla [39 more lists]

A game doesn't have to flop to be disappointing. Some of the the 00's biggest hits managed to bore, failed to impress and actually pissed off a lot of gamers. Here are the worst games (mostly representative of trends I hated) of the 00s and why they marked the decade where a lot of things got worse.

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Brutal Legend

7.7

Easily one of the most disappointing games of the last decade. Why? Tim. FREAKING. Schafer.

The man who brought us Monkey Island, Psychonauts and Grim Fandango was making a game with JACK. FREAKING. BLACK. Even though he gets kind of annoying sometimes, the collaboration could've only been awesome...

... until we got a boring adventure game that turned into an RTS at the most inconvenient moments and forced us all to do chores to save people's lives that we'd just met.

All the relationships were underdeveloped and the twist was quite predictable.

This wasn't a "complete" game. It seems like Tim Schafer ran out of time and had to wrap everything up quickly for some reason, because the story just isn't what it should have been. All of us were moved a lot more by Psychonauts and Monkey Island, so either one of our heroes has lost his mojo, or we can all blame the developer.

+ 0 BUY @ amazon
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Eat Lead

Like most the teenagers in the 90's, I grew up on ultraviolent action/shooters. Duke Nukem, Doom, and Wolfenstein, just to name the classics. So when I heard they were doing a parody game about a washed up 90's shooter hero. Well, what can I say my nostalgia really made me sit up and take notice. I read all the previews salivating, ready to laugh my ass off at my childhood getting a proper roasting. That excitement ended when I put the game into my PS3.

To be fair, the game does make some good jokes about video game history and characters. But this game is no laughing matter. The graphics look like games during the early days of the PS2 (there are cut scenes where they don't even bother to animate the mouths during dialog). The A.I. leaves no difficulty at all, as the enemies stand out in the open waiting to be lined up in your cross hairs.

But the most painful part of the game has to the be the ridiculous amounts of bugs. The melee animations are awkwardly slow, and with spawning enemies you are pretty much dead if you run out of bullets.

I'd have happily trudged through it if the story was there. I was hoping for a VH1 behind the music sort of deal.

What I got was a game that took itself seriously with a few funny bits thrown in that didn't match the game at all. It was such a great concept for a game, but what we all got was a game that was boring and full of bugs... bugs you can't shoot.

+ 0 BUY @ amazon
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The Beatles: Rock Band

6.3

One of the greatest bands of all time gets one of the most unsatisfying, easy, cop-out player experiences ever unless they want to shell out for expansion packs galore to get all the songs they thought they'd be playing anyway.

For even the intermediate player, getting through the entire game on Expert proved to be easier than anything Rock Band has put out so far. Sure, John, Paul and George weren't Yngwie Malmstein, but some kind of challenge should have been applied.

After playing through the underwhelming campaign, you're left wanting to hear the songs you truly love. There's a reason using their song library is so freakin' expensive: because they have an insane amount of amazing songs. We could have used at least 100 songs in this game, but thanks to DLC becoming more and more commonplace as a cop-out for not making a complete game, we got 45.

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Madden NFL 10

0.2

Oh come on, it's practically the same as the last million versions, only with graphical updates every single time.

They need some fresh perspectives because there aren't any in this game.

It disappoints because people are shelling out the $60 bucks for basically the same game they bought last year with a new title, some new players and a few new plays and perks.

Guess they're going with the Shampoo marketing technique of wash rinse repeat, repeat, repeat forever and change nothing. No? Nobody on board with that one? Alright then.

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Astro Boy: The Video Game

3.6

Uhm...video game based on a movie, based on a cartoon.

For all the fans of movie based video games salivating for a developer to break the cycle of inferior game creation, we all had Spider-Man 2. Since then, we all searched for an adequate movie game that never came in the 2000s. So Astro Boy serves as the representative of an entire decade of underwhelming video games based off of movies.

This decade has brought some much greater games to the table, but the 2000s didn't get a single good movie game that wasn't based on a Super Hero.

Astro Boy was the 2000s flipping the bird to anyone who bought ANY movie games, finishing off the decade with one big auto-pilot of a game (based on the one big auto-pilot of a movie.)

+ 1 BUY @ amazon
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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

9.5

I know, I know. But hear me out.

The graphics are great, the expanded perks and attachment selections are awesome. You can even drop a damn nuke as a killstreak reward. The multiplayer made everyone happy, but somehow the game managed to suck in some pretty key areas.

First when you blow someone's head off it just shows money instead of blood. They can have marijuana references everywhere but can't show blood? We used to have blood in Mortal Kombat for God's sake.

Not to mention all the horrendous, horrendous lag on the PS3.

Online gameplay may be free, but you have to shell out for a 10mgb or greater connection for your bullets to actually work half the time.

Tag on the annoying leaderboard problems and we have the disconnect you see with a lot of the Halo vs. CoD argument: CoD always has breathtaking campaigns, but their multiplayer fails to have any kind of imagination and/or interactivity beyond your basic maps and game types. Why not go into stuff like Forge on Halo, where you can get your own levels, or more game types. Even more game types.

That being said, Halo games have relatively shitty campaigns, yet completely intense, imaginative and amazing multiplayer.

Once CoD gets an imagination for its multiplayer (as well as the ability TO PLAY WITH YOUR EFFING FRIENDS IN THE SAME ROOM), it will have fixed its problem and then, only then, will I look forward to the CoD that comes out after Black Ops).

+ 2 BUY @ amazon
7

Star Trek: Armada

4.8

Not even 10 years ago the great Activision was talking great game ideas and turning them into garbage.

For its time the graphics were superb, but the game play was absolutely terrible.

Every Star Trek fan dreams of controlling an armada of ships. Every single one of us.

And then when we finally get what the Star Wars kids had been getting for years, you get a game where the screen gets so filled with objects you can't see or control anything until something kills them all miraculously... or you're dead.

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8

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

0.3

Sega combines its biggest powerhouse characters and sets them in the Winter Olympics? Seriously? It's like putting Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in a laboratory to have them make smores.

Finally bringing Sonic back in the 00s decade in a way that people would actually buy, they failed miserably (almost as bad as Sonic 4 did) at drumming up any interest in their audience.

Stunted, stiff and uneventful, this could have been a truly great video game crossover that ended up being one of those games a family member gives you, you play and then regret not having traded in still in its packaging.

The saddest, most disappointing part? It's starring two of the most iconic faces in video game history.

+ 2 BUY @ amazon
9

Tekken 6

6.1

So obviously they're going to continue the Tekken franchise forever. I'm 100% okay with that happening (as it did throughout the 00s).

Aren't mega boss fights in video games were supposed to be fun, though? Isn't this enormous franchise of gaming (and shitty movies) supposed to live up to something other than slow-moving acrobats who for some reason have something to fight about?

Playing against the boss in the Tekken 6 installment was closer to torture than it was fun.

The new boss Azrial can attack while blocking, which is kind of a milestone in "fuck you"s to the fighting gamer community. It was kind of the "CGI Blood" of fighting game moments in the 00s. Nobody likes it, it's unfair, seems harder to do for no reason and ends up pissing everyone off.

Block/attack bosses ruined the Tekken franchise for me.

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Big Rig Racer 2

0.3

Big Rig Racer 2 is part of a long series of mediocre racing games we saw in the 00s.

Racing games got worse in general in the 00s. I still own an N64 almost exclusively for Mario Kart. The new trend of NOT BEING ABLE TO PLAY WITH A FRIEND LOCALLY in racing games is 100% beyond me.

This game was the final kick in the nuts for me.

The only possible exciting thing about a Big Rig game would be mass destruction, and crappy handling which would make things more exciting. None of that is anywhere to be found on this game.

Nothing explodes, no one gets run over. FAIL.

Slower than most racing games, Big Rig Racer 2 was the last racing game I ever bought. Until I hear one is absolutely amazing, this game was the last straw for me in Racing.

A racer for the Wii sounds like something that'll be great for everyone and since it doesn't have cute animals on the cover, you can assume that it'll be at least slightly adult. Instead it's myopic, empty and useless. Like 99% of racing games out in the 2000s.

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Brutal Legend

Eat Lead

The Beatles: Rock Band

Madden NFL 10

Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games

Big Rig Racer 2