The PlayStation 3 was an attention-grabbing console for Sony. High on hubris from creating the best-selling console of all time with the PlayStation 2, Sony made a myriad of baffling selections that precipitated the brand new system to have an unbelievably sluggish begin. Still, there was untapped potential for it regardless of its advanced structure and early software program drought; it simply wanted time. And with that point, the reception considerably improved, a gradual stream of robust video games arrived, and gross sales elevated to the purpose the place the PlayStation 3 even surpassed its most important competitors, the Xbox 360.
Fantastic as this can be, no console is ever good. While the PlayStation 3 had some phenomenal video games and launched the world to some iconic franchises, it additionally got here with some weak titles. Here are 10 of the worst PlayStation 3 video games that strike concern within the minds and hearts of players in every single place.
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
Let’s begin with a fast private anecdote: when my brother purchased this recreation at GameCease way back, the cashier jokingly blurted out, “Why’d you buy Eat Lead?” Knowing nothing in regards to the recreation, he merely discovered the title foolish and baffling and had to make a joke about it. That cashier might need been onto one thing as a result of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard was not an excellent recreation.
On the one hand, Eat Lead definitely had a humorous premise, what with gamers controlling a “video game hero” in what’s mainly a large parody of motion recreation clichés. On the opposite hand, this recreation is fairly depressing to play. It’s an totally repetitive third-person shooter with boring degree design in a style that was already feeling crammed to the brim by 2009. The recreation wouldn’t be a lot with out its humor, and even that couldn’t carry it via its 10-hour size. On the plus aspect, its 2010 downloadable sequel, Matt Hazard: Blood Bath and Beyond, does a significantly better job as a 2D side-scroller and can be extra price your time if you happen to can nonetheless discover it.
X-Men Destiny
Some video games destroy franchises, and others destroy builders. X-Men Destiny falls squarely into the latter camp. The recreation already suffered via a really troubled manufacturing over at Silicon Knights, and regardless of who was to blame for it (since a number of sources inform totally different sides of the story), the sport was finally rushed out with out a lot care. One may play this and never even imagine it was made by the identical studio that dealt with a recreation like Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem.
Beyond its typically sluggish, repetitive fight and poor visuals (particularly for 2011), X-Men Destiny couldn’t shake that it felt blatantly unfinished. Blame it on the event hell if you happen to’d like, however this was a recreation that actually mustn’t have been launched within the state it was in. To make issues worse, Silicon Knights would ultimately have to recall all unsold copies of the sport (together with Too Human) because of their misuse of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 code. It can be the final recreation from Silicon Knights earlier than the end result of the authorized battle with Epic and subsequent chapter, marking a horrid finish for a once-impressive developer.
Tony Hawk Ride
You wanna speak about a collection that has died a number of occasions? Look no additional than Tony Hawk for that. Despite the franchise that includes some genuinely iconic titles and being one of many kings of the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, Activision has handled this franchise like a misbehaving stepchild quite a lot of occasions over time. But whereas a few of Tony Hawk’s mid-to-late 2000s titles have been polarizing, Tony Hawk Ride was the place the franchise really misplaced its method.
Cashing in on the peripheral-based gaming craze of the 2000s, Tony Hawk Ride got here with a skateboarding controller that allowed gamers to actually “feel” like they have been skateboarding. While not an outwardly awful concept, the controls have been abysmal, and the gameplay was far too shallow, making this a larger emphasis on a gimmick than on making an excellent recreation. It would get a sequel that wouldn’t do significantly better, and years later, Activision would destroy the collection once more with Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5. At least Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 was good…if solely Pro Skater 3 + 4 really got here out as deliberate.
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City
As nice because the Resident Evil franchise is, we are able to’t faux that the collection didn’t undergo a fairly horrific spell at one level. Specifically, in 2012, Resident Evil followers have been handled to three video games: Resident Evil Revelations, Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City, and Resident Evil 6. One of them was good, the opposite was fairly polarizing, and Operation Raccoon City was the worst of the bunch. You can fill within the blanks on the place the opposite two fall.
A hypothetical state of affairs going down between Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3, Operation Raccoon City is a third-person cowl shooter that went overboard in making an attempt to swap issues up for the collection. Even whenever you look previous the “we didn’t want this” response from Resident Evil followers, it’s additionally an especially flawed recreation with sloppy gameplay, unhealthy AI, and an astonishing lack of polish for a recreation in such a venerable franchise. Resident Evil has little doubt returned to kind since this, however it could take one other 5 years for it to formally attain that time of redemption.
Duke Nukem Forever
After 12 f—ing years, it nonetheless sucks. The story of Duke Nukem Forever doesn’t want to be rehashed: a recreation that lasted 14 years in improvement, a interval so lengthy that it as soon as held a Guinness World Record for the longest time a recreation spent in improvement. For an excellent whereas, it felt like it could by no means make it to market, however on one fateful day in June 2011, it did. And perhaps it could’ve been higher if it stayed off the market.
Duke Nukem Forever began improvement in 1997, and when it lastly reached audiences in 2011, it felt like a recreation made in 1997. The humor felt fairly outdated, and you realize the gameplay was over a decade behind when it was working on a modified model of Unreal Engine *1*, at a time when Unreal Engine 3 was the usual and Unreal Engine 4 was only some years away. It’s definitely respectable that the sport made it out of improvement in any respect, however sadly, it simply by no means lived up to that lengthy improvement time. Perhaps the Duke Nukem franchise is greatest left as a relic of the previous.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Compared to different licensed video video games, which have a tendency to really feel doomed from the beginning, Aliens: Colonial Marines lives in infamy as one of many biggest “what could’ve been” instances in gaming. Much like Duke Nukem Forever, Colonial Marines had a protracted (although not almost as protected as Duke Nukem) improvement cycle that proved troubling for all concerned. Developer Gearbox outsourced the sport a number of occasions over, and it was taking so lengthy that writer Sega threatened authorized motion in an try to get the sport out. There have been too many cooks within the kitchen, and the sport was most definitely not prepared to hit the market…however it did.
Colonial Marines proved to be a technological catastrophe with convincingly poor gameplay, a sheer lack of thrills, and a few completely horrid enemy AI. The recreation was so unhealthy that Sega bought hit with false promoting lawsuits allegedly that promotional demos weren’t consultant of the sport’s precise high quality. What’s worse, modders would come to study years later that the sport’s horrid AI may all have been fastened by correcting a spelling error within the recreation’s code. Yes, you learn that proper: a SPELLING error within the code was the distinction between a satisfactory recreation and a complete laughing inventory. Ah properly, a minimum of Alien: Isolation turned out significantly better.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
Sonic the Hedgehog appeared to attain a degree of no return with 2006’s mainline title. The franchise has miraculously bounced again since, however boy, did the sport many refer to as “Sonic ’06” take the wind out of everybody’s sails for a minute. In some ways, Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 was set to be the return to kind after downer titles like Sonic Heroes and Shadow the Hedgehog, bringing the collection again to its roots on a brand new era of consoles. Instead, it was famously rushed to be out in time for the 2006 vacation season, and it suffered because of this.
While it regarded the a part of a Sonic recreation, Sonic ’06 was a glitchy mess of terrible controls, lengthy loading occasions, a horrible digital camera, and among the worst writing in the complete Sonic collection. It’s a recreation that Sonic nonetheless struggles to reside down, and there’s a basic sentiment that this might’ve been lots higher if Sega hadn’t rushed via it and took its time to polish the sport. Some followers even discovered that out thanks to the discharge of Sonic P-06, a fan recreation of Sonic ’06 that primarily fixes what went fallacious with the unique recreation. If you need to see the sort of recreation Sonic ’06 may’ve been, P-06 is likely to be your closest reply.
Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust
In some ways, it’s quite unbelievable to assume that the Leisure Suit Larry franchise lasted so long as it did. It’s much more unbelievable that it really made a comeback after 2009’s Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Bust. Seriously, there have been two video games launched within the time since. Sure, it’d’ve taken a few decade for the franchise to come again from this, however the truth that it got here again in any respect is baffling. Supposedly, regardless of this franchise’s grownup enchantment, nudity was reduce as a result of it was seen as a “mask for poor gameplay.” Little did they know this recreation wanted such a masks.
Beyond how boring and monotonous the sport felt and the way poor the controls have been, its makes an attempt at “humor” have been fairly terrible, as Leisure Suit Larry appears to exist in that very same tier as Duke Nukem in that he’s a relic of a previous period. You realize it’s unhealthy when the unique creator of the collection, Al Lowe, thanked the publishers for not involving him on this rubbish. It’s unreal that this recreation exists within the kind that it does and that extra video games got here after. Well, a minimum of these different two video games can’t be worse than this, proper?
Rambo: The Video Game
It’s straightforward to overlook that this ever existed, however sure, in 2014, a Rambo online game was launched on seventh-generation consoles simply months after the discharge of the eighth-generation consoles. It went about in addition to you’d fairly count on. Actually, no, scratch that, Rambo: The Video Game went over even WORSE than you have been anticipating.
When you consider a Rambo online game, you’d most likely consider an open-world sort of recreation, or a third-person shooter, or ANYTHING to that impact, proper? Well, what if you happen to discovered Rambo: The Video Game is a $40 rail-shooter akin to what you’d discover in an arcade? Then, what if you happen to discovered it was extraordinarily generic, had horrible quick-time occasions, horrible AI, and nearly no polish by any means? Yeah, you’d most likely run proper in the wrong way, and that’s exactly what it’s best to do. Rambo: The Video Game is a tragic excuse for a online game adaptation of a well-liked motion movie, and it’s a recreation it’s best to keep away from in any respect prices.
Ride to Hell: Retribution
Imagine, if you’ll, the thought of an ideal online game. The kind of recreation that does just about every little thing proper. One the place each good factor a online game can do is correct there in a single package deal. Got it? Good. Now consider the precise OPPOSITE of that: the sort of recreation the place each single unhealthy factor a few online game is all wrapped up in a single terrible package deal. That’s Ride to Hell: Retribution, a recreation so basically flawed on each degree that it’s nearly inconceivable.
Terrible controls, totally damaged gameplay, terrible writing, poor voice appearing, weak graphics, laughably unhealthy intercourse scenes, impossibly horrible AI, obnoxious portrayal of girls…I imply, it’s exhausting to discover something NICE to say in regards to the recreation. The neatest thing I can say about it’s that the “1%” that seems within the recreation’s emblem a minimum of lets you realize from the leap that you simply’re stepping into one thing terrible. Otherwise, even after 5 years of improvement time and a scale-down from an open-world title right into a linear recreation, it appeared nothing may save this from being one of many worst video video games ever created. The solely method this might be worse is that if the builders paid gamers to play the sport…which, thanks to a glitch on Steam, nearly occurred…yeah, embarrassing.
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