10 Video Games That Tried Way Too Hard To Be Cool

7. Dead Rising 4

I'm not angry, Dead Rising 4, I'm just bitterly, bitterly disappointed. This sequel should have been everything fans wanted: it was bringing back original protagonist Frank West, it was returning partly to Dead Rising 1's mall, and it was set to remedy the drab, grey art style the third game ushered in.

What fans actually got, though, was the lifeless corpse of the first game reanimated entirely by the terrible ideas of dusty old video game executives.

The series had always been wacky and irreverent, but what made the comedy work in previous games was the balance between genuinely challenging gameplay, a cast of (admittedly bonkers) characters you cared for, and how much fun it was to batter zombies to death with fake laser swords.

Dead Rising 4, though, "streamlined" the gameplay to the point where brainless zombie bashing and 'wacky' antics was all the title had to offer.

It all felt so hollow - take a selfie with a zombie here, create a super combo weapon there - and was devoid of all the charm the series once was drowning in.