10 Worst No. 3's In Gaming History

The above photo shows Timmy Vermicelli - a thinly-veiled rip-off of Grand Theft Auto's Tommy Vercetti, protagonist of the sublime GTA: Vice City. It was a bold move for Driv3r to mock its competition so openly, but as a wise man once said: you come at the king, you best not miss.

Driv3r didn't just miss - it backfired so badly it put its entire franchise in a tailspin from which it has yet to recover.

You know a game is truly bad when its publishers have to bribe magazines with early code to guarantee good reviews, and that's exactly what happened here. Sadly, the ploy worked as the game sold over 3 million copies, which meant there were a lot of angry gamers around mid-2004.

To be fair, they had a lot to be angry about. Outrageously unfair level design, utterly pathetic on-foot missions that made the aforementioned Postal 3 look like Gears of War and horrendous amounts of pop-in meant Driv3r spoiled many a gamers' summer holiday.

Even the genuinely great Driver: San Francisco couldn't escape the stench created by Driv3r, with the result being that the series has been stalled for over a decade.