10 Video Games That Sold MILLIONS (Despite Being Terrible)

We weren't kidding about the dancing aliens in the article intro.

The above .gif tells you everything you need to know about the state Aliens: Colonial Marines launched in. The millions of people who had the misfortune to purchase the game may have expected a nerve-shredding Aliens experience, but what they got were insterstellar improv routines.

The AI of the eponymous Aliens was utterly broken, leading to scenes like the one above. Our personal favourite was a chase scene where the Alien abandoned pursuit to wander back and forth down the same hallway, looking for all the world like a stoned cosplayer at Comic-Con.

Incredibly, the xenomorphs' wonky AI was later discovered to be the result of a single typo in the game's code, with a renegade "a" completely breaking Colonial Marines' artificial intelligence systems. Six years and millions of dollars in development costs flushed down the drain because of poor spell-checking.

Now that's a waste of resources even Weyland-Yutani would balk at.