The Ten Worst Console Games of the Generation (So Far)
Posted by Anton Gordon at 11:21 AM Oct 06, 2009
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5. Crusi'n
Metacritic Score (Wii): 25
The worst Wii game I've had the misfortune to play and a huge disappointment for Wii owners desperate for more arcade racing action. - Videogamer
No, it's not a cell phone game. Perhaps the ugliest game in years kicks of the Wii portion of the list. It's all downhill from here.
4. Ninjabread Man
Metacritic Score (Wii): 20
Ninjabread Man lasted half an hour. HALF AN HOUR. Three levels down and I was booted straight back to the main menu without fanfare. I thought I'd pressed the Quit button by mistake... Half an hour and one hundred percent done. - Eurogamer
One of the most infamously bad games of all time, far fewer people have played Ninjabread Man than have heard about it. That's a good thing, because this horrible piece of shit simply doesn't work. Woe is the poor child who received this for a gift.
3. Anubis II
Metacritic Score (Wii): 19
Anubis II is one of the worst games ever created and fundamentally broken. If you play it, you can never get back the three hours you wasted on this unique brand of torture. - Gamespot
Anubis II and Ninjabread Man are the same game - literally. Developer Data Design Interactive creates the same games over and over with only minor artwork changes. Anubis II was reviewed more harshly than Ninjabread Man mainly because that latter at least has a semi-clever title.
2. Balls of Fury
Metacritic Score (Wii): 19
It's been a good while since I've come across a game of this caliber, which is to say that I don't often see titles that suck this bad in this day and age. - IGN
A crappy ping pong game and a shitty movie license results in the second worst game of the console generation. Just look at that screen. I don't think anything else needs to be said.
1. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Metacritic Score (PS3): 17
The lowest rating numbers here at IGN are reserved for games with nearly no redeeming qualities or interesting ideas, with next to nothing enjoyable to offer players, and which under no circumstances should be purchased by anyone. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is, without a doubt, one of those games. - IGN
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is without a doubt one of the worst games in history. There isn't a single characteristic in the game that is worth spending your money on. With the buggy controls, it's the king of crap. Under any circumstances, do not buy this game. - Gamer.nl
Poor Leisure Suit Larry. After several well-liked adventure games, he's come to consoles with a pair of games than no one can enjoy. Magna Cum Laude was tolerable, but search far and wide and you won't find anyone with something positive to say about Box Office Bust. A collection of broken movie-themed scenarios, Box Office Bust's biggest problem is that no one found it funny. At all. After this one, Leisure Suit Larry's gaming career looks as dead as, well... look at the screenshot and make your own joke.
Metacritic Score (Wii): 25
The worst Wii game I've had the misfortune to play and a huge disappointment for Wii owners desperate for more arcade racing action. - Videogamer
No, it's not a cell phone game. Perhaps the ugliest game in years kicks of the Wii portion of the list. It's all downhill from here.
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4. Ninjabread Man
Metacritic Score (Wii): 20
Ninjabread Man lasted half an hour. HALF AN HOUR. Three levels down and I was booted straight back to the main menu without fanfare. I thought I'd pressed the Quit button by mistake... Half an hour and one hundred percent done. - Eurogamer
One of the most infamously bad games of all time, far fewer people have played Ninjabread Man than have heard about it. That's a good thing, because this horrible piece of shit simply doesn't work. Woe is the poor child who received this for a gift.
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3. Anubis II
Metacritic Score (Wii): 19
Anubis II is one of the worst games ever created and fundamentally broken. If you play it, you can never get back the three hours you wasted on this unique brand of torture. - Gamespot
Anubis II and Ninjabread Man are the same game - literally. Developer Data Design Interactive creates the same games over and over with only minor artwork changes. Anubis II was reviewed more harshly than Ninjabread Man mainly because that latter at least has a semi-clever title.
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2. Balls of Fury
Metacritic Score (Wii): 19
It's been a good while since I've come across a game of this caliber, which is to say that I don't often see titles that suck this bad in this day and age. - IGN
A crappy ping pong game and a shitty movie license results in the second worst game of the console generation. Just look at that screen. I don't think anything else needs to be said.
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1. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
Metacritic Score (PS3): 17
The lowest rating numbers here at IGN are reserved for games with nearly no redeeming qualities or interesting ideas, with next to nothing enjoyable to offer players, and which under no circumstances should be purchased by anyone. Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is, without a doubt, one of those games. - IGN
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust is without a doubt one of the worst games in history. There isn't a single characteristic in the game that is worth spending your money on. With the buggy controls, it's the king of crap. Under any circumstances, do not buy this game. - Gamer.nl
Poor Leisure Suit Larry. After several well-liked adventure games, he's come to consoles with a pair of games than no one can enjoy. Magna Cum Laude was tolerable, but search far and wide and you won't find anyone with something positive to say about Box Office Bust. A collection of broken movie-themed scenarios, Box Office Bust's biggest problem is that no one found it funny. At all. After this one, Leisure Suit Larry's gaming career looks as dead as, well... look at the screenshot and make your own joke.
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wow I almost bought Vampire Rain: Altered Species! thanks for the tip
Posted 10/06/2009 at 11:51:24 AMLuckily, that's not the same "Leisure Suit Larry" that made ladies moan and conservatives groan back in the late 80s and early 90s. And even if it were, I'd simply ignore them, since not even this tripe can destroy my memories of maturing with the immature Leisure Suit Larry Laffer.
Posted 10/06/2009 at 01:34:25 PMY so much h8 for the ps3. There is some spectacular sh1t on the 360 and especially on the wii.
Posted 10/06/2009 at 02:40:12 PMNo mention of Yaris? Or is this for full games only and not Live/PSN/Wii Store?
Posted 10/06/2009 at 03:30:21 PMhttp://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/xbox360/yaris
"As the title is completely free, you should ask yourself different questions related to value. For instance, “Is the title worth the 17.5 seconds it will take to download it?” That’s a tough one. You could take out the trash in that amount of time, a much more rewarding task than playing Yaris.-Video Game Talk"
What? no X-Blades? that was terrible. It is literally the worst game ever. period.
Posted 10/06/2009 at 03:58:07 PMWhy don't reviewers grow a pair of balls and tackle the lemons and turkeys from the larger studios?!
One o the biggest lemons of the past two years HAS to be Little Big Planet. Yes it has great music, and it is a little different, but as a platformer player from the '80s I can absolutely say that Little Big Planet if presented as a game in 1988 in 2D would have received 1 out of 10 from every reviewer. The controls are finicky, the game is short, it depends on Easter egg hunts for longevity, and is the first platformer in history so short and useless it NEEDS user created levels to keep it interesting 6 hours after first opening the box.
Seriously, how much do reviewers get paid from Sony to avoid calling Little Big Planet a complete turd fest?
Posted 10/06/2009 at 05:01:21 PMBomberman: Act Zero, it's cover licence of Bomberman from Nintendo nes? hum...
Posted 10/06/2009 at 05:28:27 PMWho the fuck is the moron who wrote this horrible article? Half these games are multiplatform, and Balls of Fury isn't even on the PS3. You really need to go back to school and learn how to do some fuckin research and learn how to write an article. It took me the whole first page to figure out the pictures were above their titles.
Posted 10/06/2009 at 07:50:01 PMya that X-Blades was a load of shit could easily made the list..!!;-)
Posted 10/07/2009 at 03:53:42 AMNo Turning Point Fall of Liberty?
Posted 10/07/2009 at 05:36:28 AMlots of ps3 hate!? what about the xbox!?
Posted 10/07/2009 at 06:21:05 AMI agree with Bob, who wrote this article? Half the time the pictures are below the game then above!!!!! horrible article
Posted 10/07/2009 at 09:03:24 AMHey! Bob and TomT, go write your own article if you're not
Posted 10/07/2009 at 11:39:33 AMhappy. Not to bright are you!? It took me a few seconds to
figure the screenshots out.
BTW Bob, every uncivilized tom, dick and harry can use
profanity. Ever thought about the children reading this
article? No, I guess not.Thats what you get for dropping out
of school after kindergarden...lols
Wow, I can't believe they made Bomberman into a mech game! LOL!
Posted 10/07/2009 at 12:10:24 PMBob: Balls of Fury isn't even on the PS3. You really need to go back to school
Article: 2. Balls of Fury
Metacritic Score (Wii): 19
Because reading an article is apparently not a prerequisite for bitching about how it's written.
Posted 10/07/2009 at 12:46:17 PMAct Zero wasn't impossible. It was just insufferable.
I did the "impossible" and suffered through the game. I found that if you can make it to level 20, not all that impossible a feat, you can easily acquire the powerups necessary to make short work of nearly every round. Bomb-Penetration, Line-Bomb, and Infinite-Bombs allow you to project a matrix of unavoidable fire, Bomb-Through and Block-Through let you navigate through any obstacles, and levels that are a multiple of 20 give you tons of hearts.
The only thing you have to fear is the speed rounds, where a block can drop on you, ending your run immediately, regardless of your heart pickups. Aside from that, the accidental brush with your own bombs might cause you to drop a random powerup, which you have the chance to recover in most cases.
If you are an achievement whore, you have probably played worse and more impossible games than Bomberman Act Zero. You owe it to yourself to beat this one.
Posted 10/07/2009 at 03:48:26 PM@lurch234: Going for my masters in business, thank you. It doesn't matter how quickly YOU figured it out, it's common sense to put the title, then your picture and reasoning below.
@cry some more: The author originally put "PS3" for Balls of Fury. He edited it because he screwed up.
Posted 10/07/2009 at 04:00:02 PM@Bunny
Fuck you, how can you talk all that shit about LBP, did you even consider making your own level, or checking out the ones created by other players?? you know for an "old school" gamer you dont seem to know shit about video games. Why dont you actually go and buy the fucking game, play it, and than judge it. "little different" shit its the only one of its kind you damn turd.
Maybe you shouldnt play games anymore, you've lost your sense of joy, time to move on you old fart, let us enjoy our play time. Spare us from your bullshit and get on with your rotten life.
Posted 10/07/2009 at 06:08:26 PMRelax, people. People want different things in a game. Some want to hold to B saw people in half, some people want to play forge on a side-scrolling wiggles concert
Posted 10/07/2009 at 10:46:09 PMMobile Suit Gundam, very very much so. Man, that game was terrible. I have yet to actually play any good Mobile Suit Gundam video game. Why are they still being made? Why do I even bother to test them out? I really don't know...
Posted 10/08/2009 at 10:11:50 PMThis article is horrible, the only thing good I found about this page are the funny comments below. AND WHY THE FUCK ARE THE IMAGES ABOVE THE TITLE? HOLY SHIT. DID U GO TO ELEMENTARY?
Posted 10/09/2009 at 08:51:03 PMHaha That was another great list. There was only one game on that list that I ever had any interest to playing which was Damnation. I thought it had potential but shorty before release I was proven very wrong, very, very wrong.
Posted 10/11/2009 at 04:57:26 PMGood read, we covered the exact same subject three weeks ago on our site. Check it out and bask in the glory of terrible games.
Posted 10/12/2009 at 10:11:47 AMhttp://gamerswishlist.com/news/186-The-10-Worst-Games-of-this-Console-Generation