10 Awesome Video Games Where The Gameplay Is The Worst Part

10. Uncharted

Ever since its inception, the Uncharted franchise has basically prided itself on being a spiritual adaptation of the Indiana Jones movies, defined by its charming cast of characters - namely a roguish Nathan Drake - globetrotting seat-of-the-pants plotting, and gloriously over-the-top action.

And as entertaining a combination as this all adds up to, the moment-to-moment gameplay is by far the worst part of the package.

This is no truer than in the first game, Drake's Fortune, where the brilliant characters and loopy plot give way to tedious, overdone shootouts, and yes, those horrendous jet ski sequences.

Uncharted 2 placed a far greater emphasis on melding cutscenes with actual gameplay, lending the game a more appealing cinematic style, even if it only ramped up the incidence of excessive, frustrating gunfights.

Uncharted 4 finally decided to tone down the repetitive combat in favour of stealth and traversal, but even then, the constant need to use crates for platforming soon became a real drag.

In the last few games in particular, the cutscenes and performances are so fantastically persuasive that the gameplay itself really can't begin to compare. The fairly generic, so-so combat and exploration is elevated massively by the A+ presentation and the cinematic creativity of the set-pieces.

The earlier games in the series especially feel like a chore to play today, and you couldn't really blame someone for just watching a Let's Play instead.