9 WORST Video Games Of 2020

7. Crysis Remastered

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Crytek

If you were there at the time, you know how much of an eyeball-widening EVENT seeing the original Crysis in action truly was.

The havok physics sending bodies pirouetting in all directions, explosives ripping through buildings and splintering wood realistically as you pumped machine gun fire into every object in sight. It was pretty damn incredible, to the point where "Can it run Crysis??" became the benchmark for testing any new gaming PC.

Cut to early 2020 and word arrived of a full Crysis remaster - something that had the potential to be truly special.

In the age of glossy high-profile remakes like Shadow of the Colossus or even the likes of Activision's work with Crash and Spyro, fans got more than carried away dreaming about what a new-age Crysis might look like.

Come launch... it somehow looked worse than where a PC on max settings left off in 2007. Lighting was all over the place with many scenes looking less detailed than before, character models and environments were a mixed bag, and the game itself never felt "modernised" in any meaningful way.

Crytek were dealt a naff hand as a Demon's Souls' gameplay trailer debuted two days before release, but there was no getting away from this feeling like a port, than anything assembled from the ground up.

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