The Two Most Disappointing Console Exclusives of 2008

2008 has come and gone. During this year we have seen some of the biggest blockbuster titles this gen such as GTA IV, Gears of War 2 and Metal Gear Solid 4.
We have also watched as console exclusives were released and completely flopped. Fortunately, both consoles seemed to have their prized dung.
Lets take a look…

[sak500]

Without reading i can guess Haze and Too human

Edit: @ali_the_brit below
Whats your comment about? I can see you're giving some love to your dad's xbox. Is he out of town?

[GrieverSoul]

There is no guessing!
Its HAZE and TOO HUMAN! - FACT!!!
I tried to make a surprised look... but couldnt! To obvious!

Where´s Captain Obvious on this one?! XD

[jadenkorri]

2 games both fanboys raved about then, their foots in their mouths.lol

[ericnellie]

You took the words right out of my mouth. The funny thing is - even when fanboys on each side played the demos before the games released, they were still saying both games were awesome....fanboy delusions and fanboy denial (FD/FD). But then...all the reviews started coming in and they could no longer hide from the truth;) It's a sad, sad thing...LOL!

[will11]

Halo 3 and Left for dead

[Jamegohanssj5]

What?

TGSI

[kevoncox]

I think mos tpeople don't understand how good Too human is.
I played the demo the first time through and thought...this game sucks. THen something made me play it again and it got better. So i played it again and I started understandng just how good this game really is. It's kinda tough to understand but I fear that the media don't have the time to invest in a game like too human to really like it. All I can say is it is a game that most everyone will feel is bad when they first play it but once you learn how to play it, you will like it. It's one of my favorite xbox games this gen.

[sticky doja]

Ok dude you obviously haven't played Left 4 Dead or you wouldn't say that. Not to mention Halo 3 didn't come out in '08.

I hope you were joking.

[FOXDIE]

whats up with these sh*tty articles. I guessed the same thing, haze and too human. Why do we need to read stuff we already know?

[Magic_The_Celt]

Dont worry

that huge pile of games for both consoles
40 inch LCD 1080p TV
60GB PS3 with 320GB HDD
Xbox 360 Elite
numerous add ons

are all paid for by me ;) glad we could clear it up kid.

[BlackTar187]

Haze sucked : (

Too Human is tight give it a chance before you talk crap about it. It needed some stuff that was obv. and needed some tweaks but I want too human 2 and would be sad if i didnt get it.

Play the game before you hate otherwise you look like a fool. Reviews are reviews what is wrong with people who use reviews as gospel. Game was tight I know you can flame me or whatever but I liked it and think you should have no room to even say the slightest of anything good or bad until you played it.

[BlackTar187]

befor eyou attack me hear me out.

I absoulutley loved the game I was excited tilll i played the demo and after couldnt wait got it on launch but after I beat the game I had no need to play it again and why you ask not becuase it wasn't dope or anything it was becasue there are so little weapons and in a game about killing things i need more weopons like a chainsaw a Mp5 ak47 .44 or .50 anyof these a sword maybe any of that a taser. So you may be confused becasuei actually loved this game the lack of content drives me nuts and I have to put it as overratted becasue to me the reply value is what thiose games are about and I didnt get the feeling of caring after I used all the guns in level 1

please be constructive when replying to me and it will all be like baby jesus

[prowiew]

To me, neither of those games were disappointing. I knew that I wouldnt like them from the first time I saw both games.

[Lord Vader]

Haze takes the cake , the "Halo Killer" as their arrogant developers made the game out to be = LMAO

Too Human I enjoyed, but I am in the minority here on N4G as it did not live up to expectations, but some ppl do like it. I rented it & didnt go in with mega expectations is maybe the difference.

But R2 was my biggest disappointment by far because I bought it. I bought into the Hype & preordered R2. The campaign was so boring, i had to force myself to finish the game. The MP is okay, & the best part of this mediocre shooter.

Also, looking at sales, for all the *Hype* around R2 & the fact that it was supposed to compete with Gears 2 ...but dont misunderstand, Im not saying it was "trash" or on a level with Haze, it was a mediocre mega hyped game that I paid $60 for, so it's my biggest disappointment.

[callahan09]

I have one response to this article. This quote in particular:

"[Haze's] controls [are] clunky and awkward."

FALSE! How are they clunky OR awkward? They're your standard FPS controls and they work perfectly fine for what they are. My guess is that these critics didn't even PLAY Haze, they are just hating on it because it got mediocre reviews. I actually played Haze, and the controls are fine.

[N4360G]

Too Human was a disaster.HAZE was decent but Too Human was just terrible...

[Thugbot187]

Too Human for sure not deserving of the hype but not a horrible game. If you like games like Dynasty Warriors, Diablo or any titles like that you would enjoy this game.

Basically not for everyone and over hyped as something it wasn't.

[BlackTar187]

and someone took it from me. Come on why de bubble me disagree im not going against anyone in here or calling others names or anything like that why debubble me if you were not attacked for a differnce of opnion. I know Im a newb kinda to posting but comeone i like my bubbles and try and remain fair on all my comparision and posts. sorry if i ruffled feathers but since I didnt attack anything really except telling people not to judge before you play then come on. Be fair people disagree not steal bubbles I liked them

[snoopgg]

That game was in development so long, and still sucked major arse!!! Gears 2 online was also a very big dissappointment!!! The story was the same old shat and didn't compare to Resistance 2 online!!!!! Gears 2 wasn't worth the $60 I paid for it, I expected so much more out of this game this time around. Sold it after story mode was done, cause multiplayer sucked so bad. Unbalanced gameplay and glitch city on this one!! Big disappointment.

[Magic_The_Celt]

Posted on January 16th, 2009
Posted by Ali The Brit under Editorial, Featured, Video Games

:D!!!!!!

Go me lmao

[bgrundman]

Good work Brit, I'm proud of ya! :)

[Magic_The_Celt]

Not bad for my first article, if i do say so myself :)

[Firstkn1ghT]

So many fanboys writing articles now. Ugh! No wonder we get a crap load of random unknown sites giving out 10's to exclusives.

[goflyakite]

Oh, knight I didn't know you wrote articles.

[caffman]

both sides of the fanboy war, very even handed, but shame they didn't list wii and PC disappointments

[AngryTypingGuy]

The premise of each game is pretty cool. They should do the same thing that they did with the Incredible Hulk and Batman...just start the franchises over and pretend the originals don't exist.

[GmanUK]

Haze was a real lame game, storyline was weak as well as the game play.. good attempt at what could have been an interesting story, but it seemed rushed IMO.

Didn't play the other one, don't do xBox sorry.

[HDgamer]

Why would anyone go on the forums and call other's idiots for not recognizing his creation that has been in development for 10 years and well it didn't live up to the hype. Then get banned from the forums.

[theEnemy]

The tale of Dennis and the gaffers.

:D

[skagrerrrr]

Dennis Dyack deserved what he got, tee hee!

[Dave2001]

Metal Gear Solid 4 should be on that list.

[Shmapanese]

if your gunna go acording to ratings then Legendary FLOPPED extreamly bad,then haze then too human.

i personally liked haze to a certain extent and i DO think that Free Radicals position that their in now had at least some part to do with haze's failure cuz no publisher wants to fund a company that put a failure of a game out,thats a risk that most companys dont want to take.
now,if haze was a success then imo they would of ben in at least a some wut better position then they are now.

[Gambit07]

Console exclusives, Legendary is multi.

[cyclindk]

Well Too Human had the whole switching graphics engines debacle and Haze had devs whose goals didn't seem graphics oriented at all which was possibly coupled with a lack of familiarity with the hardware.

Poss. flops for 2009-

360 - Ninja Blade (maybe not)

PS3 - not aware of any really lackluster titles announced for 2009 yet

[P4KY B]

It wasn't the best game but it was far from the worst.

[Bazookajoe_83]

I loved the idé of the game, but the camera made it impossible to play. I bought it played it for an hour and then went and returned it..

[dachiefsman]

to many damn glitches.

[Filet of Children]

I really enjoyed Too Human too.

I mean, I know it's not everyone's cup of tea, but what is? It's certainly not GOTY material, but I still play it.

[P4KY B]

Yes, the camera took some getting used to. But if every game was to stick to rigid rules we would never see any innovation.

The story was the best in a game last year. It was a re-telling of Ragnarok mixed with robots. If they stay true to the old myths then the next game should be awesome with some seriously big robots and battles.

And its was a better exclusive game than that Viva Piniata spin-off.

[Nevers]

I found it rather enjoyable ... it didn't live up to it's expectations however.

I'll still check out the sequels.

[Bazookajoe_83]

I loved the idé, but the camera angles totaly slaughtered that game. Haze was mediocre, wouldnt have been such a dissapointment if it wasnt so hyped.

I have another game as my biggest dissapointment, but if i mention it people will just jump at me. So i keep it for myself...

[ActionBastard]

Mine were L4 and Gears 2. L4D is too light on content. Not saying it's not fun at times, but damn...short game is short. Gears 2 was Gears with new maps. While the Worm level was my favorite (and a nice change), too much of the game felt like been there, done that.

[Bazookajoe_83]

L4D was the one i was thinking about, i really want to like it, but i cant. I have been playing for two hours today and i still dont get whats fun. The concept is one of the best i ever heard of, but the gameplay ruins it. I can live with the not so stellar graphics but the to fast pace, no physics gameplay really annoys me. Feels like an really old pc fps...

Gears 2 was one of my topgames in 2008, i really enjoyed the single player/coop. One thorn in it´s side is the online, the first one was fantastic and i still play it. But in gears 2 they decided to balance out the shotgun and make it weaker, which to me was a really bad choice. And the lag it´s constantly having make even harder to use. And whats up with the matchmaking, it takes forever. Not being able to leave a game without going to the dashboard is allso something that is a pain in the ass.

Except from those things i really love it.

[ActionBastard]

I have totally left Gear multiplayer alone. There just isn't the same desire to play online as there was with Gears (mainly because online in 2 is, as you know, awful). I completely agree with your thoughts on L4D. The concept is STELLAR. The execution...not so much.

[YonasJonas]

Ability to use people as meat shields, ability to plant mines, ability to shoot people through chainsaw, chainsaw duels, five new weapons plus a shield, a bunch of new executions for each weapon, environment destructibility, ghost camera, a whole new rank system with up to date leader boards, four new modes plus a horde mode.

Doesn't sound to me like you played the game.

[ActionBastard]

Take everything online related and scrap it. Don't use components of a broken online mode as a platform for debate. And really, meat shields and chainsaw duels wow'd you that much? New weapons are expected, executions add nothing to the game (same goes to for the Ghost camera) and the ability to shoot people through the chainsaw was in Gears 1! Unless of course you are talking about the ability to take shots while revving the chainsaw, which is a bug.

Sound to me like you are easily impressed. Let me guess, COD:WaW was AMAZING with all it's innovation, huh?

[YonasJonas]

For starters no you couldn't shoot someone while they were chainsawing Gears 1 until after they had already sawed the other person in half. Anyone who played the game would know that. Since you were talking maps I'd just assume you were talking about the online mode, which is a HUGE part of Gears so yes I can use it as a debate. If were talking about the single player it was much more enjoyable than the first imo since the scope of everything was kicked up a notch, and the scale was huge. Either way most games don't give you even close to the amount of content that Gears gives.

As for the online it's not broken, and just something people on here like to say who haven't played it, and don't even own an xbox. It works just fine although you had more of a choice when selecting the type of game you'd like to play in the first game. As for the add ons that's a lot so don't even try to deny it. All of it changes the way you play in a big way. I wouldn't expect you to notice though since you already admitted to leaving it alone. And btw I'll be the first to admit the one thing Epic failed hard at was not having dedicated servers by now.

And for the record CoD is not my cup of tea.

[BlackTar187]

sorry i have played a bunch and it is indeed broken and the gltiches are used all the time by the competetion.

[peeps]

i think what didn't help too human was that it was in dev for so long. i mean back in the day it was gonna be on ps2 lol. if it hadn't been so anticipated (as a game with this sorta dev time would be) then ppl prob would accept it for an 'average' game that would sell a few copies.

and with haze it looked bad from the off tbh, and at 1 point it was gonna be a multi-plat game but then became a ps3 exclusive. some good that did haha

at the end of the day though you always get crap games on consoles. its not the consoles fault tho obv, just the developers. its like the wii could be good (hasn't won me over yet and yes this is an opinion) but devs just don't know how to make the most of what the system offers and so u get game after game getting poor reviews

[kingme71]

It still boggles my mind to this day XPlay defends Too Human like it was a top 5 game of the year. They recently had a show recommending great '08 games and TH came up again. Recall when it came out how they were shocked with all the reviews and gave it a "strong 4".

[rbbrdman]

I agree with Haze. But for me Gears 2 was the most disappointing for 360. Maybe that's because I didn't play Too Human tho.

[maverick1191]

very true sir ken about the last bit they also list GTA DLC as a game aswell its boring now anyway GTA know one goes on it anymore they must be low on exclusives when they list DLC making it sound like they have a new game lol

bubble for you sir ken

[gabeh1018]

yea, i don't understand why anyone would care for or hype DLC for a game that's a year old now.... and mediocre at best...

If that supposed to be used as a marketing ploy to play GTA on the 360, it should've been released the month of or a month after. Not a year later.

[Viatrophy]

I didn't think Too Human was that bad, it was fantastic in co-op.
Personally found The Last Remnant worse.

[ar]

I actually liked Haze. Sure, it wasn't what I expected it to be but it wasn't all that bad as portrayed by the media.

[picker332]

How many of these blogs have being made now,seriously stop it!

1:The most dissapointing game of the year.

2:The most dissapointing console game of the year.

3:The most dissapointing exclusive game of the year.

4:The Two Most Disappointing Console Exclusives of the year.

I bet it will come 3 & then 4,5,6 & so on.

[typikal82]

haze was so unpolished, its like they spent more time promoting it than working on it. It couldve been an above average shooter if they worked on the what looked like was going to be the cool part of the game (disarming and stealing weapons)

[u got owned]

The biggest disappointment for me was Too Human, I had high hopes for that game and it turn out to be so bad.

[dkgshiz]

The game was complete @ss! Nothing about the game was fun. Just a boring waste of time.

[Faztkiller]

three most disappointing for me was Fable 2 and haze and Gears 2

[kodiak]

Cry me a river fanboy
Haze sucked, lair sucked, Socom sucked, Naruto UNS sucked, resintace 2 flop,

[SprayandPreycom]

haze is here

[typikal82]

*moves halo over*

[likedamaster]

*moves halo over* *then falls over* flop!

[XxBarretxX]

id say the story mode lasted 5 hours

[gabeh1018]

biggest disappoint for me this year was a lack of exclusives for PS3.

j/k :)!!!!!

i don't own a 360 so i can't comment on too human, but Haze was pretty awful.

[caffman]

a PS3 fan who since he doesn't own a 360 and therefore doesn't comment on a game on it. You are a rarity. Bubbles to you
On topic. Haze bored me to tears and too human I only played the demo and the dying cutscene every time put me off. But biggest disappointment for me was Lips on 360 and R2 on PS3. On wii nothing as I never expect anything major from them and spore on PC

[Batzi]

That was known. Damn it, I am sad for "Too Human". 10 years!!!!!!!???

[witchking]

I think "disappointing" is kind of like "beauty." It's in the eye of the beholder.

In this case, I watched all the fervor and hype for Too Human come to a grinding halt. Yet I had liked the demo, and my kids had liked the demo, so I bought the game despite the disappointing scores. And perhaps because my expectations had been lowered, I actually liked the game.

On the other hand, I also bought into all the hype over Fable II, bought it, and thought of it as a major disappointment. I liked the first one better (again, the first one suffered from a lowering of expectations because of the whole "Peter promised us!" bs).

So, expectations have a lot to do with disappointment. I wasn't expecting much from TH but found myself liking it and having fun (except for the unskippable death cutscene). I was expecting Fable II to be great and found it didn't meet my expectations. It was the bigger disappointment for me.

[rTR-Pioneer]

surprise surprise, like we didn't already know, i hate it when websites write an article like this and think we don't already know. Articles like this should not qualify as "News" articles on a news website, this website should b for things we don't know, like information on upcoming games and other gaming news not articles that have already been done tenfold.

[slimy the g8ter]

tears of boredome 2 was a disapointment

[Radiodread]

at least learn how to spell out your insults you f!cking moron.

[caffman]

slimy the g8ter

[The Judderman]

Haze. Too Human. Sales wise Reistance2... should have done better.

[mt]

i thought Haze gonna be badass from the first teaser before even it became exclusive to PS3 i was very wrong after trying the demo.

[AnimeRaven]

I like both Haze and Too Human in some ways. But if I were to go off hype I would say Resistance 2 and Gears 2 let me down the most. It saddens me to even type it but it is true. Both titles could have been so much more. Gear 2 was a glitch fest and Resistance 2 just lacked the story that I really wanted. (yes, I play games for the story) then I kick the crap out of people. They both had things they did right at most R2 is 8.5 and so is Gears 2. Just my 2 cents

God bless and have great day 8)

[jluth3]

Out of the game iv play this year it was the most overrated game in my eyes. I have almost finished the solo but i would just rather go play something better. it so boring. as is the ranked mp although the competitive is about as fun as gears witch is great. i have yet to play the co op so i really hope that i love it.

[nickb]

Just because a game didnt sell 4 million copies it's considerd a flop didnt these games sell about 1mill respectfuly

[hack]

After haze never pre order any sh** again

[XxBarretxX]

I Know but R2 flopped sales wise due to Socom and eveyone thought socom was going to be the best but it is now since update 1.3 is finally out and 1.4 is out soon

[SprayandPreycom]

question- are all the people who are hyping kz2 do the same thing for haze ?

answer- you bet cha ...

[Gambit07]

Note to self: do NOT put a giant head on your boxart.

[Meryl]

yeh but seen as the first reviews have come in for killzone are both above 9 i think we all know its one monster of a game, so hype justified, i just can't wait till i get it now hehe

[zornik]

I have to admit, this I knew before I read it. It's only stating the obvious.
I played Too Human like hell (920 achievements)but the balance in the game made me compleet insane.
And where is the download content Mr.Dyack???????
Releasing a crap game and then f@cking the fans who buy it???????
You can save the game with a patch and extra content (like you promised) but no......you can't make a game after 10 years so wy working on a patch????????????????????????? ???????????????????????
Mr.Dyack needs another job....away from computer games.