10 Worst Video Games Of 2019 (So Far)

8. Crackdown 3

I will say that for as much as we thought Crackdown was going to be a churned-out tire fire, it's mostly "Just more Crackdown".

There's a nostalgic glee to that statement if the original was one of the reasons you invested in an Xbox 360 back in 2007, but clearly Crackdown 3 underwent development hell trying to get out the door.

What started as a multiplayer experience "powered by the cloud" with "unprecedented destruction" that would sync across multiple players... turned into a rote open world filled with collectibles, enemy outposts to clear, and spectacularly threadbare, bad-feeling online modes that were about as satisfying as realising you'd wasted a few day's wages buying this thing.

Props to Microsoft for getting it out and putting Crackdown 3 on Game Pass so you could avoid the financial gut-punch, but man if all of this didn't feel like watching a train wreck in slow motion.