10 Awful Versions Of Iconic Video Games You Didn't Know Existed
4. Call Of Duty - N-Gage
Before it became a million dollar grossing worldwide phenomenon, Call of Duty was just one little PC FPS. In fact, it almost completely stayed this way as there were five years between the PC and home console release.
Ergo, the N-Gage version of Call of Duty is the first handheld port for the series, and it actually predates the franchise coming to both Xbox and PlayStation.
Launching on Nokia’s video game system and cell phone hybrid means that Call of Duty suffers the same issues every title on the system does: a tiny screen, an aspect ratio that is not suitable for gaming and awkward controls.
Still, this version of Call of Duty at the very least has clearly had plenty of effort put into it which is what makes it even more of a shame that it functions terribly. Sluggish aiming makes the game incredibly hard to play. Furthermore, limited textures, terrible draw distance and, in fact, enemies that can shoot and kill you from behind that draw distance make this an alarming departure from the quality of the original.
Thankfully, Call of Duty’s first port wasn’t setting a precedent and remains little more than a strange footnote in the franchise’s rise to global dominance.