3. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t2e3hJ5BEs It would be a hell of stretch to call MGS2 a terrible game but there's no denying that it dissolves into utterly incomprehensible nonsense in its final hours. Everything from Arsenal Gear onwards is an exercise in cod-philosophy tedium. The game forces you to fight for huge stretches on end, in between having Colonel Campbell stuttering madly in one ear, and your girlfriend Rose mewling about genes in the other. Oh, and you play as Raiden throughout. Sorry, forgot to mention that. The albino rookie has become something of a Jar-Jar Binks figure for the MGS franchise, tarred and feathered by disappointed fans - but it's not really his fault. What contributed a lot to the fans' ire, was that the MGS2 demo was one of the greatest of all time, not featuring him in person or even by name. Playing as Solid Snake, you were let loose on a tanker and allowed to experiment to your heart's content. It's not much to look back on but at the time the graphics were stunning too, with the number of things you could do boggling the mind. You could shoot ice buckets and watch ice go everywhere, blast guard radios and watch them try to call for help - you could hold people at gunpoint, there were so many new and interesting touches. And then they hoodwinked the players. They bamboozled them. Out with Snake, in with the pretty albino boy, and the rest is history. While the gameplay of MGS2 elevates it to one of the finest video games of the PS2 generation, it was also a huge, anger-inducing mess, crushed under its own hype.