10 Worst Reviewed Games of the PS2 Era

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Если в этой PS2 was a revolutionary time in gaming, not everything to hit the system was a great success. While we saw countless series get created and already known ones get taken to the next level, a bunch of games just scraped the bottom of the barrel.

This wasn’t reserved for just one genre either, as everything from sports games to RPGs and everything in between saw their share of absolute disasters when it comes to talking about the PlayStation’s most game-changing era.

We’re going to check out a bunch of games that scored about as low as you can go, going so below the threshold for decency that they are barely playable.

10 Aqua Teen Hunger Force Zombie Ninja Pro-Am

Оценка Metacritic: 37

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is a name near and dear to my heart, so the game bearing its name is quite the unfortunate circumstance. While the voices from the show are all involved, I just can’t figure out what the point of making the game was. There is combat, but it’s hilariously bad. Then there are a variety of mini-games, such as golf, that don’t feel great to play either.

It’s a game that is full of options in terms of variety, but all of it is so half-baked that it would’ve been way better off to just focus on one aspect. Half-assed cart racing, combat, and golf just aren’t enough to ever want to shell out for a game of this caliber. It also came out late in the PS2’s life cycle, so the poor graphics and overall presentation aren’t exactly excusable.

This one is for hardcore fans of the show only, as there is an original storyline at play here, and it’s still fun to see the gang and Carl get into various ridiculous hijinks. Some people have even suggested it’s terrible on purpose, but that’s no excuse for a bad game.

9 Бойцовский клуб

Оценка Metacritic: 36

Imagine if Fight Club was just a movie about an underground fighting ring. It might’ve been decent, but it certainly wouldn’t be the classic movie it is.

The Fight Club game thought the point of the movie was fighting, and that’s pretty much everything you do here. The fighting is mediocre, though there are some cool injury mechanics, but the characters feel so similar that choosing between the various names from the movie doesn’t matter too much.

It’s also a game that came a full 5 years after the movie released, so as far as a movie tie-in goes, it made no sense whatsoever to release when it did. There is a story that puts your new character into the events of the movie, but the gameplay is nonstop fighting, so don’t expect any kind of higher thinking like the movie would suggest while you’re playing. It might not have deserved the level of score it got from reviewers, but it’s nothing worth experiencing regardless.

8 Фантастическая четверка: Вторжение Серебряного Серфера

Оценка Metacritic: 36

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is just the bare minimum when it comes to a movie tie-in game. At its absolute best, it is a piss poor imitation of Marvel’s Ultimate Alliance. That’s about the most I can say about this game, because it is absolutely pitiful 99% of the time.

The Fantastic Four should have a ton of abilities to play around with, but here, it’s so limited per character that playing as The Thing is barely any different from playing as the Invisible Woman.

The level design is awful. Graphically, it was pathetic, as it came out in 2007 and at times resembled a game from the late ’90s. You can actually play as all The Fantastic Four in Marvel’s Ultimate Alliance, so instead of wasting your time with the repetitive objectives and terrible controls here, go play that far superior superhero brawler.

7 Щит

Оценка Metacritic: 36

Two games featuring Michael Chiklis in a row? It must be Halloween soon, because I’m scared. Back in the early 2000s, Michael Chiklis was a big time name, and it made sense to make a game based on his gritty police drama. The Shield game has you playing as Vic Mackey as you play through a variety of poorly thought-out missions.

You can abuse suspects, engage in horrifyingly bad shooting segments, and sit back and watch some of the worst cutscenes out there as the horrific graphics make you wonder just what went wrong when making a game in 2007 for the PS2. It felt as though the developers didn’t think people would play this game, and they were mostly right.

It was such an easy game to make, and yet they botched it at every corner. You are watching the game half the time, which is about as exciting as the show itself. When you actually get to play it, the only vague appeal is that you get to bash some criminals’ heads off using various pieces of furniture. Even that goes cold in short order.

6 Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror

Оценка Metacritic: 35

Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror is in poor taste from start to finish. It’s an atrocious first-person shooter that features several ridiculous fistfights against actual real-named terrorists, and it’s a wonder this thing ever got made. Highlights include boxing matches against terrorists to subdue them, horrific sound design with guns sounding like muted pea shooters, and some awful music to go with it.

It takes everything that could be interesting about a game of this nature and instead, opts to do the opposite. The game just doesn’t try in any way. Characters don’t move their mouths when they talk, enemies spawn out of thin air even after you’ve already cleared everyone out of a level, and the story is atrocious.

This is one of the worst games ever made, but honestly, playing through the fighting segments against various terrorists at the end of the levels needs to be seen to be believed.

5 Mcfarlane’s Evil Prophecy

Оценка Metacritic: 34

On the surface, McFarlane’s Evil Prophecy should’ve been a hit. It’s got some really cool character design, and it’s an original story/original universe from one of the creative world’s most popular minds. Still, it was a disaster of a game.

It’s a brainless button masher that has a variety of characters that all do pretty much the same thing. If you really want to see how useless this game is, just sit in a corner and watch the underwhelming carnage unfold as your AI teammates are about as effective as you are.

The combat is awful, and the screen is constantly covered in meaningless blood with impact-less attacks on the most generic enemies imaginable. It’s multiplayer, so if you want to see your friend’s eyes glaze over within seconds, hand them a controller and say you’re sorry.

4 Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing

Оценка Metacritic: 33

Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing is arguably the laziest boxing game of all time. First off, it’s a game so difficult that it’s barely playable, and that’s not due to the amazing fighting mechanics or strategic depth you need to take advantage of, because absolutely none of that is here.

It’s atrocious looking from a boxing perspective, with terrible-looking punches that don’t even look like they could hurt you. To add on to that, the variety of punches are weak, and each match generally boils down to a button-mashing contest.

It makes a mockery of the sport and, instead, delivers something much more arcade feeling, which would be okay if it actually leaned into that a bit. Instead, it’s stuck in this weird in-between phase where it’s not sure if it wants to be over the top or be an actual sports sim. The result is a game that feels like it’s not even sure who it’s supposed to be for, and something that would be completely ignored if Mike Tyson didn’t slap his name on it.

3 MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch

Оценка Metacritic: 32

Sometimes you look back on shows or movies you’ve seen throughout your life and think, «How was that allowed to exist?» That’s firmly where MTV’s Celebrity Deathmatch sits. It’s a show about various celebrities essentially murdering each other in a boxing ring, and that’s basically what the game brings to the table as well.

It’s all done in claymation, which I guess makes it somewhat acceptable, but the game is just a disaster. The controls are awful, the moves you can perform are so few per character that it quickly feels repetitive, and the crazy, over-the-top kill moves from the show are few and far between.

Also, for a game called Celebrity Deathmatch, we really were using the term celebrities loosely. We’ve got Joey Fatone, Jerry Springer, and Miss Cleo to fight with here. Look, if it’s your absolute dream to have Carmen Electra beat the crap out of Carrot Top, then by all means, this is the best place to have that happen. For anyone looking for a vaguely entertaining brawler with a varied roster to play with? For the love of god, look elsewhere.

2 GoDai: Elemental Force

Оценка Metacritic: 27

GoDai: Elemental Force is an attempt at doing something different during a time when action games were coming out fast and heavy. Unfortunately for GoDai: Elemental Force, those games were actually good.

There are some cool ideas at play here, like using a variety of weapons and gliding around Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon style, but nothing works. It’s supposed to be this complex action game, but getting even the most basic actions to perform as they’re supposed to is an exercise in futility.

It’s a game whose ambition overdid its actual ability, leaving us with a game that forces us into horrific combat, busted ideas, and a concept that looks far better on paper than it was in motion. It’s one of the lowest rated games in history, and it earned every ounce of it.

It’s also horrendous looking, with dull colors, ugly character models, and the broken combat just doesn’t help it either.

1 Gravity Games Bike: Street, Vert, Dirt

Оценка Metacritic: 24

Back in the early 2000s, bikes were cool. So cool, in fact, that BMX games were coming out left and right, and some of them were actually pretty good.

Gravity Games tried to capitalize on that, and unfortunately, it was a complete mess of a game. There were bugs galore, and that is not because of the amazing graphical polish either, as the game is gross looking, with muddy colors, terrible environmental design, and nothing to its competitors on a presentation level.

The physics are always super important in these games, and Gravity Games fails epically here, with bikes launching off with crazy amounts of unrealistic momentum and midair animations that look like they just weren’t even finished before being released. In a game where you want to perform amazing tricks, Gravity Games seems addicted to making you stay on the ground.

Performing tricks is like pulling teeth here, with incredibly precise controls that must be performed. If you miss one slight timing, the whole trick is screwed. In a genre that is all about fun and gravity-defying feats, this thing is simply not fun to play, and it makes you feel like an idiot trying to ride a bike, which is almost surely not the goal.