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The Worst Best-Selling Games

Ameer | June 10, 2007 | Reviews | Playstation 2 Playstation 3 
You know those games that are just utter crap and you wonder in amazement at how they ever sold. Well, this list recaps some of the worst offenders, from titles as recent as Spider-Man 3, to other pieces of gaming excrement such as 50 Cent: Bulletproof.
In general, we think you've got pretty good taste in games. You've made massive successes of stellar franchises like Ratchet & Clank, The Elder Scrolls and Katamari Damacy. You tend to like the things we like, and that's part of why we enjoy writing for you and telling you about all the cool games we think you'll get excited about playing.

Sometimes, though, you ignore our advice, which breaks our hearts a little. It's bad enough when you do it by passing up kickass experiences like Okami or Psychonauts, but nothing - nothing - pisses us off quite like seeing you make huge commercial hits out of awful games. It's part of our job to help steer your money toward the good stuff, so when we see games like 50 Cent: Bulletproof achieving double-mega-platinum status, it feels like a personal failure on our parts. And it's enough to make us wonder if you're even paying attention to what we say at all.

To illustrate what we mean, we've pulled together 10 of the worst games to ever achieve mass-market success, complete with sales figures and average scores from other outlets* to show that these aren't just our opinions. We'll show you what the publishers said, what reviewers said and then look at why you believed them over us. And maybe, just maybe, we can help you avoid these things in the future.

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  • 1 thumbs!
    Jeterocks | June 10, 2007
    seems like a pretty true list, I myself haven't played any of those games actually...none of them really appealed to me.

    I was going to get Rouge Agent when it came out but then I read that it was a shitty game so never bothered...glad i did thatt
  • 0 thumbs!
    DragoniteBallZ | June 10, 2007
    Rogue Agent I think was the worst on that list. That was not only a bad game but just a testament to the type of crap EA is to the industry.
  • 0 thumbs!
    weskraudaon | June 10, 2007
    what,Enter the matrix the worst.That was an awesome game but it was kind of bad but not the worst.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Ameer | June 10, 2007
      I agree with that. Sure, it certainly did fail many expectations, but the core of the game was not that bad. Had it not got the hype, it wouldn't be on this list. But then again, it wouldn't be best-selling either.
  • 0 thumbs!
    SvR2008 | June 10, 2007
    i always new spidyman 3 was crap!
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    neto_360 | June 10, 2007
    I used to have Marvel Nemesis Rise of the Imerfects and it really did suck. Such a disappointment because it looked really great.
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    BANDITO ATTACK | June 10, 2007
    Enter the Matrix was dope.
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    Storm | June 10, 2007
    Yeah, Spider-Man 3 was a let-down. The movie was good but the game...horrible. When I was at the game store, they were selling that game left and right.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Mario_1 | June 11, 2007
    Okay, F. those guys. Seriously.

    Willy... Uh, I mean Wii Play, and 50 Cent Bulletproof are good games. And Enter the Matrix wasn't bad.
  • 0 thumbs!
    chubbie huicho | June 11, 2007
    50 cent bulletproof was a OK game and so was Enter the Matrix
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    Final Blade | June 11, 2007
    You know i was just thinking, the games cant be that bad if it was the best selling games, you know.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Ameer | June 11, 2007
      Yes, but they're not that good either.
  • 0 thumbs!
    Weldar | June 11, 2007
    Of course wii play is on there it sucks, it comes with the remote, lots of people wanted remotes, but i doubt many people were very interested in the game. I haven't played any of the other games in that list so ?
    • 0 thumbs!
      Mario_1 | June 11, 2007
      Hey, Wii Play doesn't suck! It's a good game, FFS!
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    MasterMatt1228 | June 12, 2007
    i think wii play is all right but all the other ones suck

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