Dubious Honors

Worst Use of a Great License

Stop us if you've heard this before: Games based on a licensed property, such as a movie or TV show, generally don't end up being very good. This is often because these games get rushed out the door in time to coincide with a movie launch or simply because, well, not a lot of time and care were put into them. Guess what? It's still happening. What follows is a list of some of this year's worst offenders--games that started off with a theoretically good license and ended up being thoroughly bad.

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9 Comments

  • MasterDalton

    Posted Jan 1, 2010 7:08 am GMT

    clone wars? please? someone should take Lucas out before it gets worse

  • Tomrock101

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 6:21 pm GMT

    Godfather bites the dust.

  • STARS_Splinter

    Posted Dec 23, 2009 5:05 am GMT

    I really enjoyed Avatar (the game). Star Trek D-A-C, on the other hand, is utterly dreadful.

  • bm1212

    Posted Dec 22, 2009 1:03 pm GMT

    Avatar should have been the winner. Great film, rubbish game.

  • efc91

    Posted Dec 19, 2009 1:18 am GMT

    Avatar could have been so much better

  • lukas1051

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 10:49 am GMT

    Avatar is probably the best film I've seen all year, the game was crap.

  • English-Lion

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 9:23 am GMT

    Worst Use of a Great License i vote for The Godfather II Crap game! It should of been better

  • viper_najem

    Posted Dec 18, 2009 5:02 am GMT

    Yeah keep on butchering Star Trek...

  • JustPlainLucas

    Posted Dec 17, 2009 9:50 pm GMT

    My great disappointment lead me to vote for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2.

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Winner Reveal Schedule

  • Dec 21
    Special Achievement
  • Dec 22
    Dubious Honors
  • Dec 23
    Genre Awards
  • Dec 24
    Platform Awards
  • Dec 25
    Game of the Year

Readers' Choice winners are announced Jan. 27, 2010