Thursday, October 1, 2009

Xbox 360 and the Worst Games

By Taylor Sanders

Since the Xbox 360 originally came out quite some time ago, we've been fortunate enough to see some excellent titles which leave us longing for more. On the other hand, we've seen just as many titles which have left us feeling angry and cheated.

The thing is, for the money we cough up all the time, we want a great title. A production company shouldn't just release a game because they need the money. Now not all games need a great story to make the games brilliant, but there have to be a few things in the games that we will not forget. Memorable characters and a bad story will still run together properly.

Look at the Xbox 360 game Two Worlds, for example. A few people out there will enjoy it, but the majority thought that this game had downright awful graphics. The sound was terrible and the control configuration was just bad. The great thing about the game was its online play, but that was broken as well. This game was just a complete failure in every aspect.

Then along came "Hour-of-Victory" which you may not have heard of considering it was a total failure. Unfortunately, if this game had been released a year or two sooner then it may have been enjoyable. By the time it was released however, the graphics and sound quality simply couldn't be compared to other games. Furthermore, at the time it was released, it certainly couldn't compete against games such as the "Call-of-Duty" franchise. All in all, it was simply terrible.

Vampire games are brilliant are they not? Maybe so, but that was certainly not the case with "Vampire Rain". As any gamer can attest to, a stealth game should prove to be a challenge as is the case with Splinter Cell. After all, fighting vampires should really be a challenge but if you can get past them by sneaking about, then it defeats the object of the game. It's hardly surprising then that Vampire Rain became an instant failure. What made it even worse was the fact that so many scenes had been cut, not to mention the game took forever to load. Even the sound and the graphics could only be described as being average at best.

Perhaps you remember "Jumper"? When a game is originally intended for a lower end machine, the programmers to a certain extent deserve a little bit of credit with regards to making it slightly better for a new platform. However, with Jumper that was certainly not the case considering it made use of PS2 graphics all the way through. In fact, it was an insult to our intelligence.

Let's face it, there's no shortage of terrible games out there and unfortunately many of us become victims in that we only discover we've wasted our money when it's too late.

A suggestion? Do your research and there are many sites offering honest reviews. Don't take it because the pictures on the cover look pretty.

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