8. Duke Nukem Forever
What is there to say about this embarrassing turd of a game? Well, it's an embarrassing turd of a game for a start. Probably one of the longest running sagas and most hotly anticipated titles in gaming history, Duke Nukem Forever felt like a mass of rushed out garbage. We weren't expecting a masterpiece after previous titles, but by God we were expecting more than this. With a focus on ludicrous minutiae - like throwing excrement around while Duke says "ugh, gross" - nothing actually seems to happen in this game. We spend so long trying to force ourselves to like it, that by the time we realise that it's terrible, we have almost finished this piece of crap. Cheap toilet humour gags fall flat and there's a ridiculously linear feel to the whole thing - forget exploration, that was for old games (like Duke Nukem 3D). Even the core mechanic - shooting things to death - is somehow robbed of any element of pleasure by how abhorrent the whole game is. Franchise killed.