9. Blood Trails - Max Payne
So you've put together one of the most satisfying third-person shooters in recent memory, and you're struggling for ideas on how to provide variation on blasting thousands of thugs in the face... Well, how about... right, a nightmare where you walk across a tight-rope made of blood, in the dark, as your infant child screams in the distance, getting louder if you fall off? Genius, yeah? Portrays the horrors of Max's tortured psyche and shows he's just one wrong foot away from descending into total madness, right? Wrong. Max controlled about as well as a sentient stack of ham when you started trying to do anything precise, and if you already thought the occasional platforming/walk-along-this-thin-plank-of-wood segments of the standard levels were bad, this was just excruciatingly dumb.