10 WWE One-Offs So Bad You Forgot They Existed

2. WWE Aftershock

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Time to change course for a second.

What are your favourite wrestling video games? Maybe SmackDown: Here Comes The Pain and No Mercy are up there, or perhaps you're more of a sucker for WWE 2K14 and WCW/nWo Revenge. One thing's for sure: WWF Aftershock will not top anybody's list of faves.

It was the only wrestling game released for the flopped Nokia N-Gage phone/portable gaming device. Aftershock landed in the summer of 2005, and it's been totally forgotten even when some discuss the worst video games ever. Squint at the above screenshot and you might just be able to make out John Cena hitting his finish on Kane.

Might!

The graphics were atrocious, the gameplay was bad, the title barely had any decent modes and it's a wonder the thing was released at all. Was there a petition to get wrestling action on the damn N-Gage? No, probably not, and the game never got a sequel.

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