10 Video Games That Were Dead On Arrival
4. Radical Heights
Careful not to cut yourself on the edge as we discuss the most boundary-pushing game of 2010... which was unceremoniously sloughed onto gaming platforms in 2018.
Radical Heights was Boss Key Productions' follow-up to the fun but commercially unsuccessful hero shooter Lawbreakers, and marked a clear attempt by founder Cliff Bleszinski to elbow his way into the lucrative battle royale marketplace.
Yet when the game was released in April 2018 in "X-Treme Early Access," it was painfully clear that Radical Heights had been curled out as fast as possible in an attempt to cash-in on the success of PUBG and Fortnite. The gameplay was extremely rough around the edges and, worst of all, it just wasn't fun to play, ensuring that it shed most of its already-diminutive player-base in barely a month.
The worst was yet to come, though - just 34 days after Radical Heights launched, Bleszinski announced that Boss Key Productions had shut down due to the commercial failure of Lawbreaker and Radical Heights back-to-back.
Tough and unforgiving though games development is, when a game whiffs as strongly of desperation as this one did, it never had a chance of turning around its company's fortunes.