10 Potentially Awesome Video Games That Were Stupidly Broken

9. Driv3r

Not only did Driv3r nearly kill the beloved Playstation series dead in its smoke-filled tracks, it ushered in a torrent of obnoxious marketers thinking themselves clever for replacing the letter "E" with a number "3" in their advertisements. Hilarious to watch, but asinine to play, Driv3r was a sickening concoction of failed ideas, glitches, and voiceover work from has-been celebrities that (even at the time) no one cared about. The story-related missions involving actual driving were infuriating due to their shoddy mechanics and merciless difficulty spikes. One objective may have been as simple as driving between point "A" and "B" while the next may have forced you to pursue an antagonist without a single error lest you fail because they "got away". The on-foot missions didn't fare any better as Tanner moved like an action figure without joints and shot with the inaccuracy of someone undergoing a seizure. Compounding the botched game design was the atrociously vague ending that awaited Driv3r's victims and invalidated the entire bumpy journey. Of course, you could've just laughed at all of its foibles, which Driv3r had in spades. Oftentimes, for no reason at all, characters, cars and objects would leap, fly and catapult themselves about the open-world as if violently thrown by a trebuchet. Vehicles also enjoyed disappearing and reappearing at random intervals which caused their driver (or player) to hover along the roads as if piloting a ghost ship. It's all rather funny, but also rather pathetic considering that this wasn't a work in progress but a "finished" game. Maybe they could have taken the gravel-throated rhetoric of Michael Madsen away and just put that money into, y'know, making a less buggy game. Just a thought. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ4vyLhQhQo