GB: "Even in a year as excellent as 2023, we got more than a few significant duds."
WTMG's Leo Faria: "Yeah, this one is impossible to defend. The Walking Dead: Destinies is just truly bad. Granted, it might not be the worst game I’ve played in 2023, by a mile, but it’s a borderline charming exercise in incompetence. With poor combat mechanics, uninspired level design, and an enemy AI so (fittingly) brain-dead you can literally complete levels by simply walking by a horde of zombies, this game fails at being scary, tense, or even a great companion piece to The Walking Dead franchise."
GB: "In a year full of highs, we also had a fair few lows."
Games so bad, they made Redfall look honorable. Yeesh.
It can be an unfortunate trend in our industry to lump games people were looking forward to that didn't end up meeting their expectations and were just okay (Forspoken) with games that are broken (Gollum) or little more than asset flips (The Day Before). If expectations (and price) had been set appropriately, Forspoken wouldn't even be that bad.
The Day Before coming in just in time to not make the list.
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Sauare Enix must thank all these devs because it's because of them, Forspoken didn't make the list.
I thought MW3 was good. The campaign was a lot better than the last two CoDs.