10 Video Games You INSTANTLY Knew Were Trash
8. Rise Of The Robots
If you were a kid in the mid '90s, Rise of the Robots looked like the coolest thing ever.
A cyborg fighting game with genuinely cutting-edge graphics (for the time) and, if that's not enough awesome for your buck, music from Queen's god-king himself, Brian May.
Yet Rise of the Robots is perhaps the quintessential style-over-substance video game, because from the moment you load into the action and start fighting, it's painfully obvious that the game has nothing else to offer.
The robots have extremely limited movement capabilities and tiny move-sets while the controls are horribly unresponsive, ensuring that players' best strategy for victory is to just keep spamming the kick button rather than trying anything more adventurous.
It was a crushing disappointment for those lured in by the game's awesome cover art, glossy visuals, and rocking soundtrack. And yet, despite flopping with critics and players alike, a similarly maligned sequel, Rise 2: Resurrection, somehow still made it to market.