10 Video Games Even Worse Than Everyone Expected
5. Umbrella Corps
While few were expecting greatness from Resident Evil's tactical shooter spin-off Umbrella Corps, the general pre-release feeling was that it'd be a firmly "mid" offering in the vein of Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City a few years earlier.
Yet Operation Raccoon City ultimately looks positively good compared to Umbrella Corps, which couldn't even reach the basic competence of being a formulaic squad-based shooter with the Resident Evil branding clumsily plastered over it.
But the fact that Umbrella Corps doesn't even have "Resident Evil" in its title could suggest that Capcom themselves was basically embarrassed of its existence, and frankly who could blame them?
Movement and gunplay feel bad, it does absolutely nothing interesting with its franchise identity across both its single-player and multiplayer modes, rocks a dead-generic aesthetic and resolutely feels like a game brought to market with all the grace and enthusiasm of somebody passing a kidney stone.
Moreover, its concurrent players on PC peaked at a pathetic 428 people during release week, before promptly falling off a cliff and never recovering.