10 Bad Video Games With ONE Great Level

Oh Sonic '06. Lord knows this ramshackle beast has suffered humiliation on probably hundreds of "Top 10 Worst" lists over the years. For once though, I think the battered old dog finally deserves some praise. Muffled, patronising, slightly back-handed praise - but praise nonetheless.

In a game that is bursting with content that is poorly designed, poorly controlled, glitchy, ugly, and outright broken, one segment miraculously stands above the rest: Crisis City. For whatever reason, the game that Sonic '06 was supposed to be - a rejuvenation of the lagging 3D Sonic games and return to the halcyon days of Sonic Adventure for the Sega Dreamcast - all ended up in this one level.

While mostly devoid of exploration elements, Crisis City serves almost as a tech demo for the game that could have been. We control Sonic on a downward race course full of running, jumping and grinding - keeping ahead of crumbling roadways, falling debris, and so much fire - while bouncing between enemies pinball-like just as we did in good ol' 1998. It's fun! It's good! It works!

Seriously though, why is this the only functioning part of the game?