10 Triple-A Video Games That Stayed Broken

2. WWE 2K18

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Yearly sports tie-in games have always had a reputation of being rough around the edges (almost as if making a dev team churn a game out every single year is an awful, AWFUL idea) but WWE 2K18 was a special kind of disaster.

Upon release, the game came bundled with a career mode riddled with bugs - some of which made the game totally unplayable - side quests were somehow worse, and there were endless graphical glitches.

Sweet merciful god, the graphical glitches.

While some of these problems were addressed with DLC - like all the previous entries and the one that came after it - once the next game came out, that was it. As a result, WWE 2K18 is still fundamentally broken from top to bottom.

The WWE games, much like the media empire they're based on, is what happens when you have no real competition, and thus no drive to improve yourself. Combine that with the hectic schedule of a yearly releases, and you get a recipe for one of the all-time great disasters of AAA gaming.

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John Tibbetts is a novelist in theory, a Whatculture contributor in practice, and a nerd all around who loves talking about movies, TV, anime, and video games more than he loves breathing. Which might be a problem in the long term, but eh, who can think that far ahead?