10 Recent Video Games Sent Out To Die
We saw these coming a mile off.
Every developing team sets out to make the best video game possible. Despite working with the limitations of time, money, and technology, each programmer works round the clock to ensure their latest project is of the highest quality possible.
If the game falls below standard, the developers may have to take drastic steps to ensure they stay on course. They might have to hire outside help, go back to the drawing board, or delay the whole project by a year or two. It's frustrating when this happens but the developers don't have choice. I mean, they can't release an unfinished game to the public, right?
But sometimes, that's exactly what happens. In fact, it seems to be happening nowadays more than ever before. The eighth generation of gaming is pumping out a staggering amount of games that feel so incomplete, they need ten patches before they stop feeling like a rough demo.
They're so blatantly bad, the creators must've known the games were going to be crucified on Day 1 and yet, they were released anyway. In situations like this, it genuinely feels like this lot were sent out to die.
10. Taxi Chaos
In Taxi Chaos, you play as a cab driver who must pick up customers and deliver them to their destinations within a time limit. Because the game has the same premise and cartoony aesthetic of Crazy Taxi, one could mistake it as a spiritual successor of Sega's iconic racer.
But do not be deceived. Taxi Chaos was developed (and I use that word loosely) by Team6, who are infamous for creating some of the worst racing games ever, including FlatOut 3 and Road Rage.
Sadly, Taxi Chaos isn't much better. The repetitive dialogue is grating, the frame-rate is inconsistent, the graphics are appalling, and the music is bland. The city you inhabit is so empty and soulless, you feel like you are playing the prototype. Because of the lack of variety in the gameplay, you will experienced everything there is to offer after five minutes.
Despite the fact Taxi Chaos is riddled with bugs, you don't mind much when your vehicle clips through a building or hovers in the air since it's the only thing that makes the gameplay fleetingly entertaining.
If you were waiting for a true spiritual successor of Crazy Taxi... keep waiting, because this isn't it.