Games that failed to live up to the hype

need for speed the RUN ! i have never seen such schitte ai in my life (until i played that game)

Doom 3. It was just to powerful for me. All too often I had the feeling there were things crawling around behind me. 15 minutes and then I installed.

I thought Far Cry 2 was shit, simply because it was shit. There was nothing good about it. Ninja-respawning militia checkpoints aside, it's simply a very bad game. Gunplay is awful. Gameplay even worse. Spend hours driving to and from objectives for what basically amounts to 'shoot this' or fetch that. Ninja-AI that can spot you 1km away through a bush, a wall and a vehicle, and then shoot you from there as well.

On top of that, you've got shallow characters as supposed 'companions' and some arsehole got it into his head that it might be fun to cripple the player with malaria, removing a large part of his freedom seeing as he constantly has to do missions to ensure he doesn't run out of malaria pills. Add to that a remarkably shitty plot that nobody gives a crap about and you understand why I feel Far Cry 2 is one of my worst purchases in recent years.

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Originally Posted by McT

Doom 3. It was just to powerful for me. All too often I had the feeling there were things crawling around behind me. 15 minutes and then I installed.

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Nah, Doom 3's scare factor wore off about an hour or two into the game. Pretty soon you started to notice a pattern and started recognizing which doors and areas were monster closets even before the monsters popped out. The game also dragged on for way, way too long.

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Originally Posted by Dohc-WP

need for speed the RUN ! i have never seen such schitte ai in my life (until i played that game)

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Stopped believing in NFS games, after Most Wanted. It went downhill from there...

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Originally Posted by bradbear117

I agree with everything except Far Cry 2. The checkpoints were annoying sure but the game wasn't a let down, I think every reviewer loved it at the time too.
Had many a good LAN with it. ah LAN's......

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+1 Far Cry 2 wasn't that bad. Was enjoyable.

Why isn't Brink on this list? I can think of few other games that should also be on this list. :rolleyes:

I don't think there was much hype for Brink, it was pretty low key. Also it didn't do so badly. It wasn't great but it was alright.

Home Front, Dead Island, Hard Reset and what about Rage. :confused:

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Originally Posted by bradbear117

I agree with everything except Far Cry 2. The checkpoints were annoying sure but the game wasn't a let down, I think every reviewer loved it at the time too.
Had many a good LAN with it. ah LAN's......

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Yep same here LAN was extremely fun

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Originally Posted by Dan

Kinect is just plain kak. I tried it with a few different games and it just doesn't seem very good at picking up movement with any accuracy.

The Move is way better in terms of getting it to do exactly what you want, but then again you're forced to dance around with what is ostensibly a large, glowing dildo.

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You have to stop shoving your face right in front of the Kinect, or else it won't work :p.






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