15 Video Games You Wrongly Assume Are Terrible
4. WWE All Stars
The Game: THQ's WWE game that takes the larger-than-life world of professional wrestling and makes it even bigger, with wildly exaggerated character models and physics-defying finishing moves.
Why You Assume It's Terrible: This one came and went really quickly, and though it received solidly positive reviews, it's still sniffed at by a lot of wrestling game enthusiasts for its lack of realism and moving far away from the simulation aspect of the mainline WWE games. Also, the small move-set and lack of features were widely lambasted.
Why You're Wrong: All Stars is an undeserving black sheep in the wrestling game canon, if at least held to be miles ahead of proper turkeys like WCW Backstage Assault. Still, the criticism is largely unwarranted, because while All Stars probably wasn't a value-filled purchase at full retail price, it is a fun, frothy, gleefully over-the-top brawler that's a pleasant return to the aradey wrestling games of yesteryear.
Sure, it's not bursting with features and the gameplay is very simple, but sometimes that's all you want. The graphics are pretty damn awesome, too, and in what other wrestling game can you have CM Punk take on Andre the freaking Giant?