14 Worst Video Games Of 2016

4. Alekhine's Gun

When developers Maximum Games pitched a 'Cold War espionage thriller', they probably had the best intentions (something we'll hopefully see done better if Rockstar ever release their still-in-development, Agent), yet the full game looked like a carbon copy of Hitman: Blood Money - albeit without the spit, polish and charm.

Now that the full 2016 version of Hitman is out - and is easily one of the best games of the year - reverting back to this bygone mess is like being unwillingly dragged through a time machine.

Once you got past the great-sounding premise (one backed up by hopping between multiple timelines) the reality is that Alekhine just doesn't play well. Movement is stilted, shooting especially feels like the days before Gears of War when games would struggle to make over-shoulder blasting feel satisfying, and although an open-world design spaces everything out, doing so with nothing in between only reinforces that there's nothing to keep you other than the premise itself.

A title that 'succeeds' in an on-paper concept alone, sadly not a thing about Alekhine's Gun could fulfil its substantial potential.