{"id":82885,"date":"2015-10-28T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=82885"},"modified":"2015-10-28T11:39:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T09:39:27","slug":"licensed-games-you-really-should-avoid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/82885-licensed-games-you-really-should-avoid","title":{"rendered":"Licensed games you really should avoid"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fandom and loyalty to a brand or franchise can make us blind.<\/p>\n

More often than not,\u00a0developers get the opportunity to work with beloved franchises or licenses.<\/p>\n

They hype us up and sell us on the prospect of what could be, only to fail to develop a game that comes anywhere close to meeting our expectations, die-hard fans or not.<\/p>\n

Here are some licensed\u00a0games that disappointingly wasted their potential, in fantastic fashion we might add:<\/p>\n

Rambo (2014)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Rambo<\/p>\n

Having the Rambo<\/em> license in the video game world is like having the ability to print money.<\/p>\n

All you need to do is make a crazy, explosive, over-the-top jungle shooter with cheesy one-liners and\u00a0oily biceps, and you won’t just be forgiven, but you’ll be rewarded – because that’s what Rambo<\/em> is all about and what fans expect.<\/p>\n

Polish Studio Teyon got to make a Rambo<\/em> first-person shooter in 2014, and saying they butchered it would be an understatement.<\/p>\n

Players had to\u00a0suffer through a light-gun game, played sans light-gun. Rambo moves on a predetermined path, control limited to a half-hearted dodge and an unresponsive aiming reticle.<\/p>\n

Not that aiming seems to matter, given enemies sport varying degrees of immortality.<\/p>\n

There’s at least solid voice acting and plentiful unlockable material, but the latter unfortunately necessitates actually playing the ghastly game.<\/p>\n

Clearly, more was spent on acquiring the licence than on doing anything with it.<\/p>\n

Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City (2012)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Resident<\/p>\n

Capcom handing out the Resident Evil<\/em> license to Slant 6 games was a pretty risky move that didn\u2019t pay off. Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City<\/em> is a pure case of lost potential.<\/p>\n

The concept and fiction to work with is all there, but the execution was just poor.<\/p>\n

The story isn\u2019t really coherent to anyone unfamiliar with the background of the series, and the controls and design choices hamper the experience a little too much to be enjoyed; and while the multiplayer acts as a fun distraction, it doesn\u2019t pull the game out of the hole it digs during the single-player moments.<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct (2013)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Walking<\/p>\n

The idea of a Walking Dead<\/em> first-person survival stealth shooter sounded amazing, and the the fact that you got to play as everyone’s favourite cast member, Daryl Dixon, sounded like gold to franchise fans.<\/p>\n

Despite the hope, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct<\/em>\u00a0disappointed lovers\u00a0of the show and general zombie fans all round.<\/p>\n

Reviewers panned the game for being very short, buggy and delivering repetitive mechanics throughout the experience.<\/p>\n

It was awkward, clumsy and incredibly short-lived. Even if this was an easy-target in a zombie apocalypse, there were no brains for any zombie to go after.<\/p>\n

Kinect Star Wars (2012)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Kinect<\/p>\n

We never thought we\u2019d see the day when fans refused a Star Wars<\/em> video game, but they did.<\/p>\n

Kinect Star Wars<\/em> had a bad rep from the get-go for its franchise-milking exploits, but the line had been crossed when Star Wars Kinect<\/em>\u2019s infamous dance-segments were confirmed real.<\/p>\n

While there was a slight charm in wielding a virtual lightsaber in the other modes, the Force was brutally mutilated to become the farce; through bad voice overs, the over- and under-use of rail-styled gaming and unresponsive controls, Star Wars Kinect<\/em> is just not the game we wanted it to be.<\/p>\n

Battleship (2012)<\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"Battleship\"<\/p>\n

Battleship<\/em>: The boardgame: The Movie: The Videogame was more watered-down than a slip \u2018n slide before it even hit store shelves.<\/p>\n

While there was slight potential and money behind the game, an\u00a0underwhelming generic first-person shooter was at the core of all the hype, and although Double Helix Games tried to throw in some strategic naval elements to represent the boardgame, it just had the \u201ccrappy movie tie-in\u201d tag from the start menu.<\/p>\n

The gameplay was incredibly rushed, graphics were sub-standard, and the game didn\u2019t even do a good job to capture the atmosphere of the movie.<\/p>\n

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From zombie battles to intergalactic dance-offs, here are some of the worst licensed games in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":82887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[16231,2315,1661,16225,16227,11671,2139,3325,16229,1494,3582,8753],"class_list":["post-82885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-adaptations","tag-battleship","tag-kinect-star-wars","tag-license","tag-licensed-game","tag-rambo","tag-resident-evil","tag-resident-evil-operation-raccoon-city","tag-rights","tag-star-wars","tag-the-walking-dead","tag-the-walking-dead-survival-instinct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82893,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82885\/revisions\/82893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}