8 Hilariously Broken Games You Won't Believe Were Released

7. Walking Dead: Survival Instinct The Telltale Games series of Walking Dead games are amazing. They're unique, engrossing and true to the source material. Survival Instinct is everything those games aren't, being nothing more than a shameless cash in. Albeit a hilarious one. The idea is an interesting one being that it's a prequel to the TV series featuring everyone's favourite character Daryl, with authentic voice acting from Norman Reedus. The things it got right stop there. Survival Instinct is like a trip into first person shooters of the past, just with a Walking Dead paint palette on top. Idea is, you're supposed to play it like a stealth game, sneaking around zombies and taking them out silently so as not to alert the horde. Problems arise though when you soon realise they barely even recognize you when you're right in front of them, never mind from a distance. When they do recognize you, they don't (or can't) do much about it. It becomes apparent early on that something as simple as climbing on an object is enough to render yourself zombie proof and you can watch in mirth as they keep stumbling into you, unable to do any damage before you put them out of their misery. We're not even talking high objects. Even something at waist height like a car bonnet is enough to become invincible. When that gets boring, you can simply run to your goal, taking out only the walkers you really have to and leaving a zombies eyeline means they pretty much forget about you. Targeting and other controls are clunky and unresponsive and the mechanics that seem interesting fall flat on their face. The game gives you the option to take main or back roads, in a choice that should change the gameplay entirely. Unfortunately it just serves to prolong the painful experience of the game, forcing you to back track and carry out the same annoying segments a needless amount of times. You do meet other characters along the way but they are all boring wastes of space who you'll almost definitely not care about in the slightest. Survival Instinct is undoubtedly a shameless cash in, though there is fun to be had with how you can use the games broken nature to mess with the zombie enemies. Apart from that, it's a by the numbers first person shooter that shoehorns in scavenger aspects in an effort to make it seem longer than it actually is.