10 Video Games Even Worse Than Everyone Expected

10. Fast & Furious Crossroads

While a Fast and Furious game theoretically had a ton of potential, the track record of video games based on movies being what it is, most were simply expecting Fast & Furious Crossroads to be a bog-standard Need for Speed clone with some franchise branding slapped on it.

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Even with Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, and Tyrese Gibson lending their voices and likenesses to the title, Crossroads looks more like a fake game you'd see in a movie than something that was actually released worldwide.

Given the film series' penchant for hilariously gravity-defying action, it's baffling just how unimaginative and forgettable the "cinematic" gameplay is throughout.

But worse than that, it's saddled with atrocious handling, an awful camera, and woefully dated graphics which feel a whole generation behind.

This all evidently turned players off enough that the multiplayer suite became an arid, unpopulated wasteland within days of the game's release.

The ultimate vote of no confidence came from publisher Bandai Namco themselves though, who delisted Crossroads barely 18 months after release, presumably because they didn't want to renew their licensing agreement with Universal for a certified dud of a game nobody was buying.

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