All Points Bulletin (a.k.a. APB) set fairly high expectations when it was shown last year, as it promised a "a persistent, open-world, online multiplayer setting in the modern, crime-ridden fictional city." The lofty promise of an online, open world game where players could choose to either be criminals or enforcers of the law sounded promising, especially since the man in charge of the development team created the first Grand Theft Auto. But in light if his latest title's criticial failure, David Jones has been quick to lash out at the negative reviews.
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For every game that truly lives up to its potential, there are a couple that absolutely miss their mark. Be it a simple case of over hyping an unfinished product, to game systems that downright are broken, or even just a game being inexcusably horrible, some games just leave a terrible taste in people’s mouths.
I think rogue warrior needs to be on here. And why Isn't E.T. on here since we're talking about all time terrible games. That game single handily crashed the video game world.
For me Haze. I was interested to play it. That was until I played the demo. Picked it up in a bargain bin later on after its launch and I am glad I did........pick it out of a bargain bin and not pay full price
APB , that game went from having a 100mill dollar budget to bankruptcy so fast , it should be a record on its own
No Dude Nukem: Forever? That games had so much hype surrounding it and it turned out to be a steaming pile.
PC Gamer - The action-MMO first known as APB lives on as APB Reloaded. But if your memory serves, you’ll recall that the urban, massively-multiplayer shooter had a quick death: APB shut down just months after launching at the end of June 2010, coinciding with the dissolution of developer Realtime Worlds.
the even reviews for this game.
Well i had that feeling after the beta.
I think in some extreme cases. overhyping can have a negative effect on review scores. Sadly, I don't think APB was hyped up quite enough to mess with the reviews. Sure, lots of people were excited, but your average Joe on the streets doesn't know about this game yet. It's not the new Halo or GTA.
This game looks nice, but I'm guessing by what people are saying it isn't to great. Should have got on the 360 and PS3.
I like PC games but I get sicks of almost everything not working with Windows 7 or it needs a video card that has to be the one it says it needs.
Had Mass Effect to and had all the specs to run it, but because my Video card wasn't the one listed on the box, it didn't run well. So my friend took it and made it into a cup holder.
Hm I didn't realise "making the cars half decent to actually drive" was a "high expectation" ? Nor did I realise that "shooting mechanics are important to a game with so much shooting in it" are unreasonable expectations.
From all the reviews I have seen so far they have pretty much nailed everything that is wrong with this game. The laughable thing is the developers were told about all these problems right at the start of the beta nearly a year ago and they just ignored the users.