6. The Crow: City of Angels
It’s movie tie-in time again! And what’s worse than a bad video game based on a good film? A bad video game based on a bad film, that’s what! This game is based on the sequel of the same name to The Crow, which was panned to the utmost on it’s release. And this game follows in the footsteps of it’s namesake, being panned in equal measure. And with good reason.This game is BAD!
Not only is it very difficult to control The Crow, he looks bad while you’re doing it. The graphics are appalling, but not as bad as the gameplay, specifically collision detection. Limbs will pass right through enemy NPC’s when attacking and sometimes they will not even register a hit. That’s just not fair, game! This game comes to us from Acclaim Entertainment, who brought us the awful “Turok” series and the Batman and Robin video game tie-in.
As if this wasn’t enough to put them on trial for crimes against humanity, this is a company who’s business practices included promising to pay £5000 to UK parents if they named their child Turok, attempting to buy advertising space on tombstones and including pornographic content to a game about BMX biking in an attempt to boost sales. I vote we kill them. Who’s with me?
5. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Oh god, this game. This game… it’s… I PAID MONEY FOR THIS GAME ONCE! Real, actual, legal tender! Why? Why did I do that? It’s so crap it makes other crap look good! Do you want to know what makes this game so bad? I went through the whole thing in one day… and didn’t die ONCE! It wasn’t even on “Easy” difficulty. How is that possible? The game isn’t even that short, I just breezed through it, barely breaking stride.
This game also suffers from the same thing as MUA 2, less content than the original. Say what you like about the first Fantastic Four game, there was a lot to it. There were some cool levels and a wide variety of enemy NPC’s. Here the levels just go on and on, looking pretty same-y. I don’t even remember the enemy NPCs. I think some of them might have been Skrulls? I really can’t tell. And it all just blurs together into one big amorphous mass. Avoid like the plague, people!
4. Batman: Dark Tomorrow
Hee, hee! I get to make fun of Batman now! And at last he’s an easy target. Batman games of late have been ranging from “average” to “excellent” so it’s nice to be able to yank him back down to earth where he belongs. Although I can’t mock it completely as the story isn’t all that bad, with very good cutscenes and a decent story. Well I say that, there is one MASSIVE flaw in the story.
At some point before facing the final boss, who plans to blow up bombs placed all over the world, Batman must disarm a signal device or something. The thing is, the player is never told that they need to do that. And if they don’t then after beating the final boss he activates the bombs. This left many a gamer perplexed at how beating the game meant that millions of people died.
Throw in some dodgy camera angles, weak and repetitive missions and a game-play engine more confusing than why Batman’s main mode of transportation is a car. He can be defeated by heavy traffic! Come on!
