Top 5 WORST Video Games of the current generation

Once in a while it is a nice change of pace so as to tamper regarding all those games that were totally abysmal and not even worth renting. So what are absolute worst titles of the generation so far that one must avoid at all costs.

These are quite possible the Top 5 Worst games of the Current generation.

[geniusgamerdoc]

I totally lost my Patience after playing AMY for like an hour or so. One of the Most HORRIBLE games in recent history i guess.

I'm on the fence whether to buy Ninja Gaiden 3 or not, after reading all tjhose Abysmal Review scores the game is receiving.

But I have high hopes for ASSASSIN's CREED III, BIOSHOCK INFINITE and TOMB RAIDER!!!

[t0mmyb0y]

Can't wait for AC3

[guitarded77]

This is the number 1 site for intrusive ads and pop-ups.

As for horrible games, I'd say Terminator Salvation was horrible and just a lame ass cash in.

[jadenkorri]

OK, so we completely ignore Deadly Premonition, Haze wasn't that bad, it had nothing new compared to any other shooter, but Its not worse than Deadly Premonitions. Hell, I'd rather play Leisure Suit Larry than play Deadly Premonition.

[Wagz22]

Deadly premention was amazing, crappy graphics and the driving and shooting were alittle clunky, but the characters and story were very interesting and funny. Sometimes it was actually creepy but mostly hilarious. Great game, I don't know what your talking about.

[IvyWinter]

Deadly Premonition was a so bad it's good kind of game. I found I got nothing but joy and awkward smiles out of it.

[Kalowest]

Haze is a pretty good game, just over-hyped as a Halo killer.

[geniusgamerdoc]

So you are refusing to Accept all the Negative Reviews and poor reception the game received when it was released.

If it was at least a decent game, the 360 and PC ports wouldn't have been stalled.

It's a Broken game. Trust me.

[Kalowest]

"Negative Reviews and poor reception the game received when it was released."

Just because a game gets "Negative reviews and reception" doesn't mean it can't be enjoyable. And sorry for not paying attention to those reviews, i was too busy coming up with my OPINION.

[CGI-Quality]

Haze actually wasn't broken (had little to no game-breaking bugs, glitches, or hitches) not to mention a smooth frame-rate. It just looked poor, had a forgettable story (albeit - I liked the concept)/multi-player, gameplay really didn't stand out, and it received more hype than it could deliver on. Still, I'd give it anywhere from a 6 or 6.5/10 - it wasn't horrible.

OT: Where is the original Two Worlds? That sits at the top of the chain for the current gen to me! Worst game ever!

[Hellsvacancy]

Haze wasnt that bad, ive played a bunch of Hazey type games this gen which where just as crap, Timeshift and Singularity for example

Prototype, Resident Evil 5, The Saboteur, The GodFather 2 and Resistance 2 would be on MY list, Kane And lynch 2 was awful as-well

[jthamind]

geniusgamerdoc, i don't think you realize what broken means when it comes to video games. lol.

[svoulis]

So you are saying that us "Gamers" shouldn't judge for ourselves and just listen to all these reviews from random people who surely judge the game on their own experience. While Haze wasn't ground breaking by any means, and quite generic to boot. I wouldn't say it was total garbage, maybe a forgettable shooter at best.

Just MY OWN OPINION though. You know, if I am allowed to have one and all..

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

lol you sir are a prime example of the wrong type of gamer. did you not hear what kalowest said? his comment reflects his own personal opinion and you come arguing against that with review scores? dammmn bro...he was just saying that he doesnt think the game is that bad. RELAX. So long as YOU enjoy the game that youre playing, review scores dont mean anything to you, do they?

either way, i appreciate your honesty kalo! ive never played haze the full retail game, but i can say that it was the first demo id ever played/downloaded once i had finally signed up for PSN. itll always have a place in my heart.

[Anon1974]

And the reviews weren't even all that negative. They were "mixed". Just have a look at metacritic. Most reviewers felt Haze's worst crime was being average. Hardly makes it a "Worst Game Ever" game.

I played through the entire game co-op and actually had quite a bit of fun with it. It's also rare to have a game that allows you to go online, splitscreen with a friend - and the multiplayer in general was serviceable.

And I think one of the things people forget is just how ambitious Haze was in it's story telling. It really tried to blur the lines between simple "good guys/bad guys" stories that we find in our shooters today and add layers to a conflict where it wasn't so crystal clear what side you should be on. The problem for me was, I like goodguys/badguys. When I kill a final boss, I want him to scream defiance at me and yell how he'll return and from hell's heart stab at me, etc..etc. Instead, I get a dying character crying and asking for his mother in his final moments. It's hard to feel good about that. That's not a reason I play games.

At the end of the day it still moved something like a million copies. That's something 80% of console games released never manage to accomplish in their lifetime. I would have given it a 6/10.

[t0mmyb0y]

I think he's just giving his own opinion that he didn't mind it. Some people still enjoyed it.

[BlueTemplar]

Agree completely, it wasnt the best shooter in the world but it was enjoyable enough and really doesnt deserve a place on this list - ive played far far worse games this generation, ie Matt Hazzard, X-Blades, Ninja Gaiden 3, Operation Raccoon City, Tenchu Z, etc

[ShinraE5]

Matt Hazzard was briliant.

Yes I can concede the gameplay wasn't polished and the mechanics were a bit off...but the combination of hilarious writing, unique boss fights, and fun enemy types puts this above most of those duds imo.

[360GamerFG]

pretty good game? Lol. See why I say no PS3 exclusive is bad according to n4g?

[Kalowest]

"pretty good game? Lol. See why I say no PS3 exclusive is bad according to n4g?"

WTF are you talking about, of course their are some bad PS3 exclusives,same goes for 360,Wii, PSP/Vita,and 3DS.

[Moncole]

Kalowest you said it :) there are bad exclusives on those systems but not PC and DS :)

[MysticStrummer]

If you want to ignore a bad list just to attack a PS3 exclusive, that's your business, but don't act like it's out of line to call both you and the list out for it. Haze is exceedingly mediocre, just like most FPSs, but it's not one of the worst games of this gen.

[SilentNegotiator]

What's that, FinancialGamer? You're a ps3-hating troll that will say anything to incriminate its fans? Yes, I do agree with you!

[MrBeatdown]

You know someone is desperate when he need to treat the opinion of one person as if it's shared among all PS3 fans on this site.

Sadly, this isn't the first time I've seen this happen today.

[Kostchtchie]

i enjoyed haze with bro on co-op, was solid fun game nothing more nothing less, just like now to many people listening to reviews sites rather than trying out games for them self's.. shame other good games that went under the radar was The Saboteur, Alpha protocol...great fun games, that a lot people passed over because of reviews

[YoungKingDoran]

ive always watedn to play haze. as soon as i see it used, im buying it

[SilentNegotiator]

Haze was incredibly mediocre. The AI, the shooting mechanics, the story, short lived online play....mediocre, mediocre, mediocre.

That said, to put it in the same league as Box Office Bust....I can see why SOME people would find that questionable. Worse games this generation at least EXIST.

[humbleopinion]

Killzone was also over-hyped as a Halo killer, and while not living up to the name it still turned out as a much better game than Haze.

[ritsuka666]

"just over-hyped as a Halo killer."

Actually there a ton better games than halo ( BF3,MW3,KILLZONE), So, please stop this bullcrap of halo killer , sigh..

[ljh217]

I don't think you realise the origin of 'Halo Killer'. The original Halo was considered to be one of the most successful first person shooters released on console (although there were some before, most well-known Goldeneye & Perfect Dark). As a result Halo & Halo 2 were crowned as king of the genre, and even Halo 3 (although didnt live up to the hype) was still considered a great exclusive FPS.

Back in 2007 when Haze was released PS3 lacked a great PS3 exclusive shooter (whereas the Xbox had Halo). Hence, Haze was dubbed the 'Halo Killer', as in what playstation has to offer is better than the xbox counter-part. Unfortunately it didn't quite live up to its hype and in my opinion never fufilled it's role as halo-killer, but nowadays the need for a halo-killer has died out because Halo is no longer considered the king of FPS and squad based FPS's like COD and BF have taken the crown. That's not to say that there isn't a market for sci-fi shooters, just it's died down abit since the original launch of the Xbox.

[MysticStrummer]

@ljh217 - Actually, I think the Halo killer nonsense started with Killzone back on PS2. Call of Duty turned out to be the Halo killer in terms of sales. In terms of gameplay, it's all subjective. I'd say many games have killed Halo, but I never thought it was all that great to begin with. Just my honest opinion.

[The_Devil_Hunter]

What about that Vampire game...umm I dont remember the name something about Altered Species...its sort of a stealth based vampire game im not sure. All I remember was that people said it was A BADDDDD game.

[SnakeCQC]

SPAM site

[t0mmyb0y]

Took 2 ads blasting out of my speakers until I closed it.

[clevernickname]

Adblock.

[CadDad]

That website blows.

5. Haze
4. Amy
3. Shadow Harvest
2. Quantum Theory
1. Leisure Suit Larry; Box Office Bust

-caddad

[t0mmyb0y]

Thank you. I didn't make it to the second page those ads were annoying as f^ck haah. Bubbles

[sjaakiejj]

"That website blows. "

Their list does too. I've seen far worse games than Haze this generation. Haven't played the other four, though I can imagine Leisure Suit Larry and Quantum Theory are terrible.

[360GamerFG]

PS3 exclusive, must be defended.

[sjaakiejj]

I'm confused.. Why does it matter that it's a Ps3 exclusive? I would say the same regardless of the platform it was on..

I'd say Lair for instance deserves that place a lot more than Haze.

[MysticStrummer]

It matters because he wants to attack a PS3 exclusive. His comments are pretty predictable as a rule.

[Hayabusa 117]

Thank God someone mentioned it.

[clevernickname]

THREE PAGES to display a five item list? Fail.

[Sidewinder-]

Lost: Via Domus.

So bad. One of the only games where I bought it, completed it, and traded it in the next day.

[DC1980]

Where's Modern Warfare 3?

JK

[geniusgamerdoc]

You must be kidding right.

Though the franchise has been milked a lot but it is hands down the best selling game in the history of video games.
Though it might be the same thing over and over again but there are a lot of people who are already hyped up for Black Ops 2.

COD on the PSVITA would be an instant buy for me.

[Fylus]

You sir, are a sheep.

I don't wanna see CoD fail, but I don't necessarily feel like it should succeed anymore either. I wanna see at the very least, a graphical upgrade with the next installment.

[Ravenor]

Wait, CoD has sold a lot? Well that totally forgives the game being the same for 5 years.

[J_Cob]

JK = Just Kidding

[CaitSith]

I'm surprised Vampire Rain didn't make the list. Heard bad things about that game.

[WitWolfy]

Good graphics and great idea for a game, it was just poorly executed though... Was trying too hard to be a MGS that had vampires in it, and STEALTH was the key!

[FinaLXiii]

Turning Point and Hour of Victory. Those games are praticly unplayable at times but fun to mess around with glitch/bug and low framerate fest.

The games on that list are playable and fun to some point ( there´s fun in bad games too you know )

in my opinion the worst games of this gen are mainly for PC and xbox 360 shooters like fall of victory,turning point,darkest of days,conflit denied ops, conduict 2 and many more.

[Ravenor]

Conduit 2 was a Wii shooter, Hour of Victory wasn't a launch title but it was certainly in development in that time frame, Turning point was on the PS3, as was Conflict: Denied Ops, Darkest of Days really wasn't a big budget game...

You've cherry picked some bad games sure, but your point is moot when half aren't exclusive to the platforms listed. I would also argue that all your examples are from a few years ago.

[FinaLXiii]

The platforms dont matter those games suck major bunny sh!t balls bottom line lol.

Many shooters from this gen belong to the list of bad games and Haze not even DNF belong there those are average.

[colon]

Wii gets a free pass because they don't consider it "current gen"?

[InTheLab]

Haze? Please....it's about as (good or bad) as Timeshift, Homefront, Prey, CoD3....just your average run of the mill shooter. There were far worse games out there than Haze. It's there only because of the Hype/hate over a PS3 exclusive shooter, which usually makes all PS3 shooters worse than they actually are.

Rogue Warrior- broken
Darkest of Days- broken
Mindjack- just awful
Neverdead- awful
Duke Nukem- awful
Damnation- terrible
Shellshock2- wtf?
Quantum Theory- seriously, wtf?
Thor- awful
90% of all 3rd party Wii games

Haze does not belong on this list. It was mediocre at best, but there were no game ending bugs and the mp was decent for the time. It's just another generic shooter that was unjustly compare to the genre leader at the time (Halo).

[Fylus]

I'd easily take Haze over Duke Nukem any day. Haze is at least playable.

[SJPFTW]

Rogue Warrior ... yup that was a crappy game

[smashcrashbash]

I agree. People have formed a wall of defense for much worse games then Haze. . Haze was no more or less generic then half the thing people have the nerve to call games.Bulletstorm for instance was a horrible game with bad A.I., crappy environments, stupid story and am over used gimmick that got old really fast when you realized that the enemies were as dumb as mud as barely put up a fight and people still tried to defend it and still brought it. People tried to look past it's crappiness only because Epic made it and according to the denial squad that automatically makes it good.

[Tagcollector7]

Damnation is one of the worst thats for sure

[Summons75]

I liked AMY but then again I don't play games for ACTION ACTION ACTION shootemup shooteverythingup.....I like survival horrors for the challenge Survival horror games are never about the combat but people have seemed to lose that thought.

[mynameisEvil]

Only AMY and LSL belong on this list. They rest of them are simply... mediocre. They aren't broken or anything like that, they're just... there.

[Bathyj]

Even after all this time, the Haze hate continues.

The game was in no ways broken. It looked good at the time, had good controls and was smooth and it was just as playable as any shooter with no gamebreaking bugs that I can remember.

Most of the hate about it was to do with the story and the gung-ho characters.

"With it’s bad level designs, shallow and stereotypical characters, quirky AI reactions"

I could name a different highly regarded shooter that sells millions that I consider even worse in those regards and it only came out last year. Its main character turned me right off it.

"its poor reception on the PS3, the publisher ditched the plans to release it on the Xbox 360 and PC."

Bollocks. Its not enough to keep hating on the game, but they have to make lies about it too. The game was originally going to be multiplat, then went exclusive to PS3 before even releasing and the media crucified it after some idiot called it Halokiller.

Seriously, its time to just let it go.

[MPGamersheep]

I'm not sure if that website design could be any worse. Holy moly.

[BrianC6234]

That site really needs to be fixed. Way too much work to just read one article. Ads after every click and the article is on three pages when it could be one page. Can you say looking for clicks? Anyone who wants me to be a regular visitor to their site better not design it like that one.

[Runa216]

You forgot Final Fantasy XIII.

[NovusTerminus]

Hunted: The Demon's Forge and Vampire Rain

[spektical]

where is rogue warrior?

[ACBAA]

>using a hot chick as display picture
>trying to get more clicks

[WitWolfy]

Who here remembers "Jumper: Griffins story"? Now that was a MASSIVE disappointment! I couldn't believe people paid $60 to play that POS!

Here is another few that never really lived up to the hype
-Perfect Dark Zero
-Leisure Suit Larry BOS
-Blacksite: Area 51
-Superman Returns
-Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
-FF XIII
-FF XIII-2
-Tenchu Z
-Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood
-Infernal: Hell's vengeance
-Enchanted arms
-Bullet Witch

Man I can go on forever, but these are the ones I regret buying the most.

[pwnmaster3000]

Too human

[Kyosuke_Sanada]

Wait, I liked Quantum Theory. The artwork for characters, enemies, and level design were great and the voice acting wasn't offensive at all (it was decent but by no means horrible). The soundtrack was awesome as well but the reason why it got so much is hate because it copied Gears of War in execution which deserved criticism but instead it was crucified.

QT had a lot of potential and if they were just a bit more original in approach I think it have down well. The game was also begging for a co-op mode......

[kasasensei]

Haze is not SO bad. Lot of others fps clones are worse. Story was great, but poorly executed. But gameplay was good. Fake death, steal weapons, use drugs...

Don't know for the others on the list, didnt play enough.

[SnowBlu]

they needed a third page for just one game -_-

and where the hell are duke nukem and saw 2

[Robotronfiend]

An argument can be made to bump Haze in favor of Duke Nukem.

[genuinegamers]

I gave up reading the article after I was repeatedly spammed with the page loading an iPhone advert, preventing me from even going back on the browser.

I got Haze and Amy. What were the remaining 3?

(And please for the love of god, keep these things on one page. Multiple pages for one article is pointless is just shows you're after hits).

[drosera1]

Can we have an article on the top 10 worst websites in internet history? This site would rank well, utter crap. Couldn't get past the first page for all the pop-ups and "offers" and "surveys". F$%$ off.

[shreeveera]

Duke Nukem is way more crappier than Haze and so is Too Human.

[Pintheshadows]

Mindjack.

[ThatsGaming]

To me:

Leisure Suit Larry Box Office Bust
Destroy All Humans Path of the Furon
Hot Wheels Beat That!
Truth or Lies
Hannah Montana

Runner Ups:
Damnation
Lair
Rogue Warrior
Shellshock 2
Vampire Rain

[Bobby Kotex]

Quantum Theory was supposed to be a Gears of War killer....

[mynameisEvil]

Where in God's name did you get that idea? Only some major morons thought it was going to be a Gears killer...

[Relientk77]

Kinda suprised that Duke Nukem Forever wasnt on the list

Quantum Theory was terrible I couldnt even finish the demo lol

I dont think Haze was THAT BAD to be labeled in the top 5 worst games of the generation. It was ok, definitely a game full of good and cool ideas. It just didnt work out.

[Dazel]

You can't half tell it's quiet out there, jeez what next. Five greatest dumps taken by famous gamers???

[Tai_Kaliso]

Haze was pretty bad, that's the game and reason why we have no Star Wars Battlefront 3 right now. Free Radical had some amazing tech for the next Battlefront game and the game itself was almost finished, but Haze came out and flopped harder than a 500 pound man in a pool and Free Radical and their tech and SWBF3 all went the way of the dinosaur.

Its a shame really.

I think "Jumper" the game based off the movie is probably the worst game this generation. Probably a few others in their as well.

[helghast102]

There are a lot worse games than the five mentioned.
Seems like this guy only played the big name ones.

[siren]

WARNING: This website is currently infected with the Trojan:JS/Redirector.IT virus.

This virus will attempt to infect your system the moment the advertisement first appears.

[SlowBurn]

Damnation and Dark Void should be mentioned.
I actually laughed uncontrollably in between shock and awe while watching Damnation being played.Truly outstandingly awful game