In this series of posts, I'm going to write about the worst games I've ever played, in no particular order. I'm going to start with Watchmen: The End Is Nigh.
Last month, this game was for sale on XBLA for something around 800 points. I downloaded the demo to see if it was any good. I had heard that it wasn't the greatest game of all time, but I figured I'd try it since I love Watchmen and I love good deals even more. I fired up the game, started the first level, and part of me died inside. I'm not kidding.
You have the option of playing as either Nite Owl or Rorschach. I chose Rorschach because he's my favorite character from Watchmen. After a brief cutscene, Nite Owl and I dropped into the prison so we could quell the riot happening there, and began to fight against the inmates.
First of all, the graphics were awful. The prison consisted of a bunch of brick-colored blocks with flat gray lines for prison bars. The inmates all looked like Michael Chiklis in a gray jumpsuit. The dialogue was flat and mind-blowingly inept. A sample:
Rorschach: Daniel, cover me while I open doors.
Inmate #1: You're just a midget!
Inmate #2: Fuck shit!
When you enter combat, you have two or three buttons to press: strong attack and light attack. When you punch or kick the inmates, you hear these incredibly cartoony sound effects, and buckets' worth of blood appear from nowhere and splash on the floor. After dispatching the first group, you enter the next segment of the prison, and experience more of the same. This was when I went back to my Xbox Dashboard and deleted the game. Total playing time? Less than five minutes.
What a colossal waste of time and energy.
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