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The internet loves to dogpile. IGN, or more accurately a few people working for IGN, made some mistakes in the past. The internet uses that as fuel for a hate fire because a game someone liked didn’t get the score the reader thought it deserved. 7.
- From games we've called bad to the one we described as unbearable, these are the stinkers you really should avoid.
- Wanted: Dead
- Crime Boss: Rockay City
- Redfall
- The Lord of the Rings: Gollum
- Everybody 1-2-Switch
- Unholy
- Gord
- Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance
By Tom Marks
Updated: Jan 5, 2024 7:52 pm
Posted: Dec 22, 2023 3:00 pm
2023 has been full of big name games making big splashes, from The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom to Baldur’s Gate 3 to… Redfall. That’s right, while this year might have had some huge hits, it was also one full of truly eye-popping misses – in fact, IGN published more game reviews with a 4 out of 10 score or below in 2023 than any year since we switched to the 10-point scale by more than double, including our first 1 in about a decade. High highs were coupled with low lows, and all those nostalgic remakes and sequels came alongside a different sort of blast from the past thanks to a slew of underwhelming licensed games, be that The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, Skull Island: Rise of Kong, or The Walking Dead: Destinies.
As someone who considers themself an action game buff, Wanted: Dead let me down on just about every front. Its combat may be fun for a few hours, but eventually I realized that it was just a pool of shallow water to splash around in. The fights never evolved in any interesting or meaningful way, the minimal enemy variety never challenged me to chan...
Crime Boss: Rockay City is an overly ambitious air ball on all fronts, from its sloppy moment-to-moment gameplay to its largely abysmal voice acting – the worst of which sound like single takes spliced in with mistakes intact. There’s an earnestness with which Crime Boss has been put together that I do admire – as a kind of direct-to-VHS knockoff o...
Redfall is a bafflingly bad time across the board, whether playing solo or with a friend or three suffering alongside you. That it comes in the wake of Arkane’s excellent Deathloop, the enduringly beloved Prey, and the acclaimed Dishonored series honestly beggars belief. Its performance on Xbox Series X is regularly dire, plagued with pop-in, stutt...
The Lord of the Rings: Gollum fails to provide a satisfying answer to the big Why’s. Why, of all the interesting characters in The Lord of the Rings lore, would anyone want to play an entire game as Gollum? Why would one trade the solid action of prior games in this universe for busywork, uninspired and frustrating platforming, and bad stealth? It’...
Everybody 1-2-Switch is a tedious and surprisingly small catalog of unoriginal and mostly poorly designed minigames that’s guaranteed to bring any party grinding to a halt. Even with a few interesting ideas, like Joy-Con hide and seek or the color scavenger-hunting modes, there are simply too few options to keep a group’s attention for one game, mu...
With the exception of the rich environmental detail to be found in its sinister underworld setting, Unholy otherwise offers precious little to praise. It’s not scary enough to succeed as a horror story, its controls are too clumsy to provide a satisfying stealth experience, and its enemy and puzzle variety are too limited to make any part of the jo...
Any way you look at it, whether it’s an RPG, a real-time strategy game, or a colony sim, Gord is as miserable as its downtrodden villagers. Other games are bad because they aim too high, attempt too much, and fall down on their own merits. They are at the very least hoisted on their own petard, doing us the favor of digging their own grave or being...
We haven’t quite been waiting 100 years for an Avatar game that lives up to the potential of the show, but it’s certainly beginning to feel that way after playing Avatar: The Last Airbender - Quest for Balance. This half-baked and wildly inconsistent retelling of the excellent TV series shows the promise of what an Avatar game could maybe be, but a...
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Dec 27, 2023 · As it is, LOTR: Gollum might be one of the worst movie/book-to-game vehicles ever released. Everybody 1-2 Switch - 56. Unholy - 52. Gord - 59. Avatar: The Last Airbender Quest for Balance ...
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Sep 1, 2023 · The reviews for Starfield are now out, and, although most final impressions are extremely positive, the review from IGN is facing criticisms from fans along with accusations of anti-Xbox bias.
Whilst Microsoft have made bad choices, it's also been manged terribly by their PR department, whilst Sony's has done quite a good job of things. jnixon said: Of course im biased the xbone looks crap, but it's IGN the biggest gaming website on the internet so being biased on one side is a bit stupid and kind of wrong.
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