10 Video Games You INSTANTLY Knew Were Trash

10. Shadow The Hedgehog

Look, a Shadow the Hedgehog spin-off could've actually been pretty fun - in theory at least - but given that the quality of mid-2000s Sonic games was basically determined by a coin flip, it was definitely foolish to get your hopes up.

Shadow The Hedgehog certainly had a vision, but as it revealed in mere seconds, it was just the totally wrong one.

Literally the first shot of the game's opening cinematic sees Shadow loading a machine-gun, before he's glimpsed riding a comically oversized motorcycle - despite being able to run faster than the speed of light, no less.

All of this is set to some toe-curlingly cringe-worthy butt-rock, confirming beyond any doubt that this game is edgy-with-a-capital-E.

Even accepting that Sega wanted to do something different with Shadow the Hedgehog, the guns and Shadow's constant use of the word "damn" just felt too jarringly out of place for their own good.

Nobody came to the series for this, and it smacked of Sega desperately trying to appeal to teenage boys as much as humanly possible. Its sheer bizarre incongruity in the Sonic canon has won it some defenders/apologists, though.