20 Great Video Games That Everybody Turned Against

Of course, no hated games list would be complete without an entry from Call of Duty itself, and while many entries have attracted the ire of a once-dedicated fanbase over the years, we turn to Warzone. The Battle Royale game parachutes us in together with players from across the globe and a large arsenal – and more to buy in-round – to shoot, slash and boom the living hell out of each other.

Far from the first free-to-play COD (COD Online dropped in China over a decade ago), Warzone is nonetheless the biggest to date, with coverage spanning eighth/ninth generation consoles and Windows. But the brief foray into mobile coverage, for Android and iOS, hasn’t lasted – and that’s at least part of the story here, but not everything. For the game’s obvious failings on mobile, there have been many slower burns on console and PC.

The foremost of these are the bugs and issues that have affected everything from frame rate to play-killing glitches (super-bullet instant deaths, etc.). And that would be enough to put anyone off, except there’s also the disastrously uneven matchmaking, with world-class pros and n00bs regularly sharing matches. This all came to a head when Warzone 2.0 dropped in 2022, which promised "an all-new Call of Duty", but which changed the game for the worse by removing beloved features (like loadout drops and the simplistic loot system). And it took Infinity Ward over a year to reimplement everything, change course and win back everyone who had turned against it.