10 Awful Video Games That Almost Everybody Plays

10. Call Of Duty

The biggest, loudest shooter on the market, Call of Duty is perhaps the most contentious entry on this list. For whatever reason, a lot of people seem to like it. Granted, most of those people are prepubescent, but the point still stands: Call of Duty is a beloved franchise, played all over the world by a multitude of different people.

Why? I haven’t a clue. The series hasn’t developed in any meaningful way in over a decade, the multiplayer is bland and uninteresting, and the singleplayer is just a succession of myriad cutscenes and set-pieces that rarely allow for any real sense of player involvement. Worst of all, the story has developed into something almost laughable; Advanced Warfare was essentially about Kevin Spacey trying to invade the United States, and Ghosts III – despite the title, which suggests an element of stealth – involved cyber-augmentation, killer robots and lots and lots of armoured tanks.

Yet, despite all of this, Call of Duty continues to outsell the competition every single year. People buy it because it’s safe; they know exactly what they’re going to get, and even though what they get is usually dull, at least it can’t disappoint their painfully low expectations.