Dubious Honors

Worst Game Everyone Played

The less-than-flattering name of this category refers to those games that despite not being very good ended up being success stories at the checkout counter--specifically, games that broke into the range of selling at least 100,000 copies at retail. Compiled for your reading pleasure (or any other emotional reactions you care to experience) are some of the worst games of 2009 that, in our opinion, a few too many people ended up playing.

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18 Comments

  • revchenko

    Posted Dec 27, 2009 2:17 pm GMT

    Took the words from my mouth Sami, it was dreadful!

  • TfcIan

    Posted Dec 26, 2009 3:58 pm GMT

    Agreed Sami, so overrated.

  • SamiRDuran

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 11:42 pm GMT

    where is modern warfare 2?

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:18 pm GMT

    Godfather 2. WTF? Legends of wrestlemania isn't too bad.

  • dwd_27

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 11:49 am GMT

    i'm not sure with god father 2

  • mikal91

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 3:37 pm GMT

    cannot believe i got the black knight. worst sonic game ever (at least 3d wise) along wiv sonic 2006. least it was cheap £10 new

  • e1337prodigy

    Posted Dec 20, 2009 11:50 am GMT

    I never played any of them but was tempted to play Terminator, until I read reviews. I wish Shift was on this list though.

  • Avenger1324

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:11 pm GMT

    quite happy to have missed all of these games

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 12:42 pm GMT

    There are plenty of other games in these awards that are 'Overrated' although its very unlikely they would have recieved the same sales figures or success.

  • efc91

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:16 am GMT

    @decogon agreed COD is overrated.

  • Decogon

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:41 am GMT

    COD4 MW2 has got to take the cake on this one. I think that GS were too scared to put COD on here......

  • thenephariouson

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 11:13 am GMT

    It is developers making s**t such as the games here and having the cheek to charge £40 for them that make people mod their consoles.

    ## I do not own or condone this by the way ##

  • brendanhunt1

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 9:48 am GMT

    wheres COD

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 9:15 am GMT

    I vote for The Godfather II !!!!!!!!!!!!
    I played this and it was so CRAP!
    why did i pay £39.99 for is crap game! If i know it was going to be crap i would of not pay for it!

  • vengeance00

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 7:20 am GMT

    "alright, we're going to make a sonic game with a racer genre feel to it. and put a sword machanic in!"

  • kamikaze_pigmy

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 6:06 am GMT

    Hahaha. Theres always a sonic game in this catagory!

  • coruscant

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 4:21 am GMT

    I voted Clone Wars even though I haven't played it because I hate to see LucasArts doing shovelware.

  • JustPlainLucas

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 9:46 pm GMT

    I played the demo of Clone Wars, and it was atrocious.

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