Second Take: Worst Games 2007

Medal of honor airborne!

Oh and I totally agree with Travis, hellgate: london is total rubbish. The hit detection is pathetic, how can I hit a guy with a sword when he is 20m away?

Transformers was... yea...

What about the worst game of all time? I'd be interested to see what you come up with.

Easily Crysis. The game was pushed as a graphical powerhouse and showed incredible footage rendered on some unknown machine. Half-Life 2 also pushed the system, but on medium settings still looked great on medium settings for lower systems. I have little respect for a company that can make a great looking game for a system ten years down the road but can't run well on good gaming systems.

Beyond the graphics, it featured mediocre game play. It was like Far Cry 2 with a gimmicky powersuit. The developers for this game like Bioshock thought, "Hey, how can we incorporate every gaming gimmick (gravity gun, invisibility, super strength, etc.) into the game with no justification?". A power suit or a genetic vending machine...

There are so many crappy games out there I don't know who to believe. Everyone wants your money. What to do? Play some classics.

I pulled out my old favorite Return to Castle Wolfenstein and played it again. 2001 and it still looks great and the game is lots of fun!

Perhaps if I could actually watch the video rather than a popup ad for Windows Mobile I could weigh in a little better.

Turning adblock off for tom's? No way I would do that.

not just me then, i played quake wars for all of 15 minutes after i bought it, then put it back in the case and fired up bf2. I cant really put my finger on it but it just stinks.

I actually collect bad games.

The worst game of all time raises philisophical questions.

Is it possible for a game to be so bad, that it no longer becomes a game?

I think I've found games like that.

Can a game simply be broken, like hellgate london, or hour of victory? I mean, there's clearly broken programming there. But broken programming can be fixed. Is it worse to have a game that can't be repaired?

A strong contender actually shows up in one of the videos:

Nsync for Game Boy Color.

Unfortunatly, I cannot indulge in sci fi fantasies about time travel.

I am just a man, with a hammer, and a sense of justice, to hold people acountable for both the good, and the bad that they do.

There are no commercialy produced games that could drive me to anything that extreme.

Also, I believe very strongly in weighing only the finished product. Not the hands that made it.

"Don't gate the player, hate the game" - Ice T.