The PlayStation 3 was an attention-grabbing console for Sony. Excessive on hubris from creating the best-selling console of all time with the PlayStation 2, Sony made a myriad of baffling choices that prompted the brand new system to have an unbelievably gradual begin. Nonetheless, 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 gentle stream of sturdy video games arrived, and gross sales elevated to the purpose the place the PlayStation 3 even surpassed its essential competitors, the Xbox 360.
Improbable as this can be, no console is ever excellent. Whereas the PlayStation 3 had some phenomenal video games and launched the world to some iconic franchises, it additionally got here with some weak titles. Listed here are 10 of the worst PlayStation 3 video games that strike concern within the minds and hearts of avid gamers all over the place.
Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard
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Let’s begin with a fast private anecdote: when my brother purchased this recreation at GameStop way back, the cashier jokingly blurted out, “Why’d you purchase Eat Lead?” Figuring out nothing concerning the recreation, he merely discovered the title foolish and baffling and needed to make a joke about it. That cashier may need been onto one thing as a result of Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard was not recreation.
On the one hand, Eat Lead actually had a humorous premise, what with gamers controlling a “online game hero” in what’s principally an enormous parody of motion recreation clichés. Then again, this recreation is fairly depressing to play. It’s an completely repetitive third-person shooter with boring stage design in a style that was already feeling stuffed to the brim by 2009. The sport wouldn’t be a lot with out its humor, and even that couldn’t carry it by way of its 10-hour size. On the plus aspect, its 2010 downloadable sequel, Matt Hazard: Blood Bathtub and Past, does a significantly better job as a 2D side-scroller and can be extra price your time should you can nonetheless discover it.
X-Males Future
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Some video games destroy franchises, and others destroy builders. X-Males Future falls squarely into the latter camp. The sport already suffered by way of a really troubled manufacturing over at Silicon Knights, and regardless of who was accountable 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 consider it was made by the identical studio that dealt with a recreation like Everlasting Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem.
Past its usually sluggish, repetitive fight and poor visuals (particularly for 2011), X-Males Future couldn’t shake that it felt blatantly unfinished. Blame it on the event hell should you’d like, however this was a recreation that really mustn’t have been launched within the state it was in. To make issues worse, Silicon Knights would ultimately need to recall all unsold copies of the sport (together with Too Human) on account of their misuse of Epic Video games’ Unreal Engine 3 code. It will 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 Journey
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You wanna speak about a sequence that has died a number of occasions? Look no additional than Tony Hawk for that. Regardless of the franchise that includes some genuinely iconic titles and being one of many kings of the late Nineties and early 2000s, Activision has handled this franchise like a misbehaving stepchild various occasions through the years. However whereas a few of Tony Hawk’s mid-to-late 2000s titles had been polarizing, Tony Hawk Journey was the place the franchise really misplaced its means.
Cashing in on the peripheral-based gaming craze of the 2000s, Tony Hawk Journey got here with a skateboarding controller that allowed gamers to actually “really feel” like they had been skateboarding. Whereas not an outwardly awful thought, the controls had been abysmal, and the gameplay was far too shallow, making this a higher emphasis on a gimmick than on making a fantastic recreation. It will get a sequel that wouldn’t do significantly better, and years later, Activision would destroy the sequence once more with Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 5. No less than Tony Hawk’s Professional Skater 1 + 2 was good…if solely Professional Skater 3 + 4 truly got here out as deliberate.
Resident Evil Operation Raccoon Metropolis
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As nice because the Resident Evil franchise is, we will’t fake that the sequence didn’t undergo a reasonably horrific spell at one level. Particularly, in 2012, Resident Evil followers had been handled to 3 video games: Resident Evil Revelations, Resident Evil Operation Raccoon Metropolis, and Resident Evil 6. One in all them was good, the opposite was fairly polarizing, and Operation Raccoon Metropolis was the worst of the bunch. You’ll be able to 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 Metropolis is a third-person cowl shooter that went overboard in attempting to modify issues up for the sequence. Even whenever you look previous the “we didn’t need this” response from Resident Evil followers, it’s additionally an especially flawed recreation with sloppy gameplay, dangerous 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 might take one other 5 years for it to formally attain that time of redemption.
Duke Nukem Ceaselessly
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After 12 f—ing years, it nonetheless sucks. The story of Duke Nukem Ceaselessly doesn’t have to be rehashed: a recreation that lasted 14 years in growth, a interval so lengthy that it as soon as held a Guinness World Report for the longest time a recreation spent in growth. For whereas, it felt like it might by no means make it to market, however on one fateful day in June 2011, it did. And possibly it might’ve been higher if it stayed off the market.
Duke Nukem Ceaselessly began growth 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 recognize the gameplay was over a decade behind when it was operating 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 actually respectable that the sport made it out of growth in any respect, however sadly, it simply by no means lived as much as that lengthy growth time. Maybe the Duke Nukem franchise is finest left as a relic of the previous.
Aliens: Colonial Marines
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In comparison with different licensed video video games, which are likely to really feel doomed from the beginning, Aliens: Colonial Marines lives in infamy as one of many biggest “what may’ve been” instances in gaming. Very similar to Duke Nukem Ceaselessly, Colonial Marines had a protracted (although not practically as protected as Duke Nukem) growth 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 actually not able to hit the market…but it surely 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 sport was so dangerous 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 be taught years later that the sport’s horrid AI may all have been mounted by correcting a spelling error within the recreation’s code. Sure, you learn that proper: a SPELLING error within the code was the distinction between a satisfactory recreation and a complete laughing inventory. Ah effectively, at the least Alien: Isolation turned out significantly better.
Sonic the Hedgehog (2006)
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Sonic the Hedgehog appeared to succeed in some extent of no return with 2006’s mainline title. The franchise has miraculously bounced again since, however boy, did the sport many discuss with 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 sequence again to its roots on a brand new era of consoles. As an alternative, it was famously rushed to be out in time for the 2006 vacation season, and it suffered in consequence.
Whereas it seemed the a part of a Sonic recreation, Sonic ’06 was a glitchy mess of terrible controls, lengthy loading occasions, a horrible digital camera, and a number of the worst writing in the complete Sonic sequence. It’s a recreation that Sonic nonetheless struggles to dwell down, and there’s a basic sentiment that this might’ve been rather a lot higher if Sega hadn’t rushed by way of it and took its time to shine the sport. Some followers even discovered that out due to the discharge of Sonic P-06, a fan recreation of Sonic ’06 that basically fixes what went fallacious with the unique recreation. If you wish to see the type of recreation Sonic ’06 may’ve been, P-06 could be your closest reply.
Leisure Go well with Larry: Field Workplace Bust
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In some ways, it’s somewhat unbelievable to assume that the Leisure Go well with Larry franchise lasted so long as it did. It’s much more unbelievable that it truly made a comeback after 2009’s Leisure Go well with Larry: Field Workplace Bust. Significantly, there have been two video games launched within the time since. Certain, it would’ve taken a few decade for the franchise to return again from this, however the truth that it got here again in any respect is baffling. Supposedly, regardless of this franchise’s grownup attraction, nudity was lower as a result of it was seen as a “masks for poor gameplay.” Little did they know this recreation wanted such a masks.
Past how boring and monotonous the sport felt and the way poor the controls had been, its makes an attempt at “humor” had been fairly terrible, as Leisure Go well with Larry appears to exist in that very same tier as Duke Nukem in that he’s a relic of a previous period. You recognize it’s dangerous when the unique creator of the sequence, 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. Properly, at the least these different two video games can’t be worse than this, proper?
Rambo: The Video Sport
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It’s simple to neglect 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 anticipate. Truly, no, scratch that, Rambo: The Video Sport went over even WORSE than you had been anticipating.
While you consider a Rambo online game, you’d most likely consider an open-world type of recreation, or a third-person shooter, or ANYTHING to that impact, proper? Properly, what should you came upon Rambo: The Video Sport is a $40 rail-shooter akin to what you’d discover in an arcade? Then, what should you came upon it was extraordinarily generic, had horrible quick-time occasions, horrible AI, and virtually no polish by any means? Yeah, you’d most likely run proper in the other way, and that’s exactly what you need to do. Rambo: The Video Sport is a tragic excuse for a online game adaptation of a preferred motion movie, and it’s a recreation you need to keep away from in any respect prices.
Journey to Hell: Retribution
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Think about, if you’ll, the thought of an ideal online game. The kind of recreation that does just about the whole lot proper. One the place each good factor a online game can do is true there in a single package deal. Acquired it? Good. Now consider the precise OPPOSITE of that: the type of recreation the place each single dangerous factor a few online game is all wrapped up in a single terrible package deal. That’s Journey to Hell: Retribution, a recreation so essentially flawed on each stage that it’s virtually inconceivable.
Horrible controls, completely damaged gameplay, terrible writing, poor voice appearing, weak graphics, laughably dangerous intercourse scenes, impossibly horrible AI, obnoxious portrayal of ladies…I imply, it’s onerous to search out something NICE to say concerning the recreation. The very best factor I can say about it’s that the “1%” that seems within the recreation’s brand at the least lets you recognize from the soar that you just’re entering into one thing terrible. In any other case, even after 5 years of growth 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 one means this is able to be worse is that if the builders paid gamers to play the sport…which, due to a glitch on Steam, virtually occurred…yeah, embarrassing.
However what are another PlayStation 3 video games that you just discovered exceedingly dangerous? Pontificate within the feedback beneath.