10 Utter Trash Video Games You Love Anyway

Deadliest Warrior - the Spike TV "reality" show that used very dubious science to find out whom among history's greatest killing machines would win in a fight. It presented such classic match-ups as Spartan vs. Ninja, Viking vs. Samurai, and Saddam Hussein vs. Pol Pot. (Yes, really.)

The imaginatively titled Deadliest Warrior: The Game looked exactly like what you'd expect from a cheap, licensed cash-in. Going by screenshots and snippets of gameplay it looked like those fake video games you see in TV shows. You know the ones - the obviously pre-rendered animation that plays on a screen while an actor mashes buttons like his hands are having a seizure.

But would you believe it was actually kind of awesome? That's because instead of producing just a cheap fighting game, the developers made a valiant effort to scratch a very specific itch: that of Bushido Blade.

Like the almost forgotten samurai fighting games by Square Enix, Deadliest Warrior was a fully 3D fighting game. Players could select not only their character, but also choose from a suite of weapons. Combat was semi-realistic, as damage was location specific. With one hit you could take out an enemy's arm or drive a spear right into their chest, killing them instantly.

There wasn't much to it, but the strategic combat made it a nostalgic blast, if a short-lived one.