A disappointing game might not be awful. But there's a nagging feeling that, for whatever reason, the game just failed to live up to its potential.
5. Assassin's Creed
It's got some fantastic ideas, an amazing graphics engine, tight controls, and some of the best animation that we've seen so far. So what exactly went wrong? A poorly judged interest curve is a bad start, with a slow beginning and intrusive tutorial. As the game goes on though, the repetitive mission structure begins to drag, and the game's lack of a decent stealth mechanic does little to help. Promising, clever, fun, but not all that it could have been and ultimately disappointing.
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Perfect Dark Zero launched alongside the Xbox 360 back in 2005, to much criticism. 18 years later, is it worth another look?
Perfect Dark Zero was the first game that I purchased for my XBOX 360. I still have the game in my collection. I think I played it for about 45 minutes in total over the past 18 years. It's a really bad game, and I was so disappointed when I first fired it up almost 20 years ago.
I had fun with the mutiplayer. Didnt feel like Perfect Dark, but still had some fun with it
BY JOHN: There are lots of commercially successful games that are, to put it mildly, not very good. Whether they launch broken, or they’re just a cookie-cutter version of another title, some games just hit the jackpot when it comes to sales numbers.
But, what about those games that are well worth playing but don’t sell well? It can be too easy to miss a great gaming experience just because it wasn’t a commercial smash hit, despite having a strong story or interesting gameplay mechanics. This can be due to poor marketing, the timing not being right in the market or dozens of other reasons.
Here are ten games that flopped commercially but are well worth checking out.
Prey shouldn't have been connected to the original, they should've changed the name. It looked good and had decent exploration but it was way too long and the ending was trash. Definitely gets more praise in the comments than it should.
I couldn’t get into Prey when I played it. I own it so I’ll try again someday.
I think the issue with Prey is how the media were infatuated with everything done by Arkane Studio and the Dishonored Universe.
For some reason they need to remind us all the time that Dishonored is among the best games and everything related to that suddenly becomes near perfection.
cue the same treatment for Deathloop.
I totally agree many games that have been hyped have turned out to be nothing but s**T, or dissapointing, i.e assasins creed. i did all three PoP but found this one extremely mediocre
While AC wasn't everything I wanted, it was certainly entertaining with an engaging story. I'd swap that spot for Bullet Witch or ShadowRun easily.
prey was ok i thought, if the lag didnt plague online that would of been really good,
perfect dark zero- that was unfair since it was alaunch title, rushed and built on alpha engine, wait to see what rare can do now with perfect dark 2
I still can't believe Gamespot gave PDZ at 9 and then gave Resistance an 8.5 and zelda twilight 8.5.
They didn't include 99 Nights? That was a massively hyped game that ended up being a dud.
Kameo and Perfect Dark too.