Have you ever read about a game and thought to yourself “who in their right mind thought this would be a great idea?!” While your average gamer may scoff at an atrocious game idea, it seems that game companies are making these dumb decisions every day. We’ve seen it in the past with games based off bad Sylvester Stallone movies like Driven, or games just plain based off lame comic book characters like Aqua Man. Still, the folks in their ivory towers and glass houses feel these ideas will actually gain some sort of profit. So with E3 2007 now in the books and most of the holiday releases already announced, let’s take a look at three games that are just plain stupid and ill conceived that are due out on the shelves of your local Game Stop and Wal-Mart for full price in the very near future.
You’ve got to admit, it’s got to take balls to release a game based off of Japanese Kabuki Theater to a bunch of Americans who really have no idea what it is. If Crave and Genki thought Kabuki Warriors would usher in an era of hardcore Anime fan boys going gaga for Kabuki Theater, they were wrong, wrong, wrong. Kabuki Warriors is not a lame mockery of the art form as much as it embodies the term “half-assed” to a T. Have you ever wished you could play as a painted-up mime armed with an umbrella, or better, a fat guy in a diaper and pit them against an army of plain gray clones in beekeeper masks? To those who say yes, shame on you. Go sit in the corner.
Hey everyone, as you well know it's summer time and it would just be a crime to be cooped up indoors writing about bad games. Hence, I'll be on vacation for the next week but rest assured there will be an update upon my return. Anyways, I insist you stop looking at my empty words and get outside yourself....the sun really isn't that bad.
Almost a year after being sued by Capcom over Fighter’s History, a game they claimed directly ripped off Street Fighter II in almost every way, the geniuses at Data East decided to take another shot at the fighting game market with Tattoo Assassins. Not ones to rest on their laurels and armed with a script penned by Bob Gale, who wrote two cinematic masterpieces in Back to the Future II and III, the house that Bad Dudes built decided to take the high road this next time by ripping off the current flavor of the month: Mortal Kombat II. The end result was a game that the developers wanted to scrap halfway through development and thankfully really never saw the light of day.
If gaming innovation is what you crave, look no further than the independent developer. While larger game companies rarely venture off the beaten path and continue to give us the same kinds of games year in and year out, it’s the independent developers that are admired for bringing new, daring, and innovative ideas to the table. Look no further than games like Façade, Alien Hominid, or Crimsonland to push the envelope for innovation and offer a level of addictiveness that the folks at Blizzard could only wish to achieve. These developers rarely ask for much as their games are free, or at least affordable enough that no one would mind kicking a little bit of cash their way. It’s another thing when some kid in his parents’ basement develops an uninspired and broken knockoff running on a dated and 3D engine while attempting to drum up controversy to get his game noticed – all at the low, low price of twenty-five bucks. Sound unreal? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to Gore Galore.
Have you ever read about a game and thought to yourself “who in their right mind thought this would be a great idea?!” While your average gamer may scoff at an atrocious game idea, it seems that game companies are making these dumb decisions every day. We’ve seen it in the past with games based off bad Sylvester Stallone movies like Driven, or games just plain based off lame comic book characters like Aqua Man. Still, the folks in their ivory towers and glass houses feel these ideas will actually gain some sort of profit. So with E3 2007 now in the books and most of the holiday releases already announced, let’s take a look at three games that are just plain stupid and ill conceived that are due out on the shelves of your local Game Stop and Wal-Mart for full price in the very near future.
Hey everyone, as you well know it's summer time and it would just be a crime to be cooped up indoors writing about bad games. Hence, I'll be on vacation for the next week but rest assured there will be an update upon my return. Anyways, I insist you stop looking at my empty words and get outside yourself....the sun really isn't that bad. 
Almost a year after being sued by Capcom over Fighter’s History, a game they claimed directly ripped off Street Fighter II in almost every way, the geniuses at Data East decided to take another shot at the fighting game market with Tattoo Assassins. Not ones to rest on their laurels and armed with a script penned by Bob Gale, who wrote two cinematic masterpieces in Back to the Future II and III, the house that Bad Dudes built decided to take the high road this next time by ripping off the current flavor of the month: Mortal Kombat II. The end result was a game that the developers wanted to scrap halfway through development and thankfully really never saw the light of day.
If gaming innovation is what you crave, look no further than the independent developer. While larger game companies rarely venture off the beaten path and continue to give us the same kinds of games year in and year out, it’s the independent developers that are admired for bringing new, daring, and innovative ideas to the table. Look no further than games like Façade, Alien Hominid, or Crimsonland to push the envelope for innovation and offer a level of addictiveness that the folks at Blizzard could only wish to achieve. These developers rarely ask for much as their games are free, or at least affordable enough that no one would mind kicking a little bit of cash their way. It’s another thing when some kid in his parents’ basement develops an uninspired and broken knockoff running on a dated and 3D engine while attempting to drum up controversy to get his game noticed – all at the low, low price of twenty-five bucks. Sound unreal? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to Gore Galore.