9 Worst Video Games Of 2016 (So Far)

8. Alekhine's Gun

Developers Maximum Games hopefully had the best intentions when they pitched a 'Cold War espionage thriller' (although that same idea belongs/belonged to Rockstar's still-in-development, Agent), yet the 'full game' looked like a carbon copy of Hitman: Blood Money - albeit without the spit, polish and iconic charm.

As a result, once you got past the great-sounding premise (one backed up by hopping between multiple timelines) the reality is that Alekhine just doesn't play well. Movement is stilted, shooting especially feels like the days before Gears of War when games were still struggling to make over-shoulder blasting feel satisfying, and although an open-world design spaces everything out, doing so with nothing in between only reinforces that there's no meat on these bones.

A title that succeeds in an on-paper premise alone, sadly not a thing about Alekhine's Gun could fulfil its substantial potential.