10 Insanely Awful Video Games In Famous Franchises

7. Halo: Spartan Assault

The conversion of loved franchises into generic top-down shooters is starting to look like a running theme in this list, but I promise that Spartan Assault is the last one, because just reading about top-down shooters would eventually become as repetitive as the genre itself. When PC gamers heard that there was a Halo game coming to their big rigs, they would've doubtless been extremely hyped until they saw that it was concurrently being released on Windows Phone (remember those?), and as a top-down shooter that narratively had nothing to do with Halo canon. In fact, making the plot worse still, Spartan Assault is actually just a video game itself, that soldiers play in their downtime; what a way to make everything you do in it feel completely trivial. The gameplay in itself is inoffensive, as you blast your way across industrial military landscapes as the titular supersoldier, but the endless gunning reaches its fun limits after about a couple of hours. The real bummer about it was the fact that it was tied into the official Windows Store upon release, and its cheap entry price deceived the fact that it was packed with micro-transactions. In other words, Microsoft used Halo as a vehicle to test the water on some of the worst practices in the industry. Master Chief would never have condoned this...