12 Most Bafflingly Awful Movie Tie-In Games You Ever Played
4. Jaws Unleashed (PC, PS2, Xbox)
What It Should Have Been: We get to play as Jaws? Awesome. I bet the game lets us swim the ocean, freely eating up as many men, women and children as possible. No, no? What It Actually Was: I'll admit that pitting the player as the hungry antagonist of the Jaws movies is an idea with only so much mileage, but as a £10 indie game, why not? Jaws Unleashed is an XBLA game released in a time long before this sort of delivery system existed, and so as a full-price, fully-fledged game, it is nothing short of awful. As the game sends you on absurd fetch quests and equips you with a sonar radar, I'm still not sure if it has a sense of humour about itself, or is simply desperate enough to pad the play-time out that it gives us these concessions. Dismembering swimmers is fun, but you'll spend far too much time on inane quests and fighting against other water-based lifeforms. I imagine this sort of game would have been a lot more fun online, where players could either play as sharks or humans.
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