when it comes to video games looks
aren’t everything welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 bad games
with good graphics before we begin we
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this list we’ll be looking at gorgeous
games that forgot one crucial ingredient
fun what do you think of our options
number 10 Dark Void
this game strapped on a jet pack and
flew too close to the Sun set in a
mysterious world known only as the void
and filled with hostile alien forms
spaceships and ragtag human survivors
Dark Void gives you a mysterious
environment to explore and a cool jet
pack with which to explore it
unfortunately the game never really
takes advantage of its interesting
setting and instead settles for being a
bog-standard cover shooter with a
forgettable plot that’s over way too
soon
while it had the potential to soar Dark
Void could never make it off the ground
number 9 lightning returns final fantasy
xiii
just like lightning this JRPG is all
flash and no substance as the final
entry in the very divisive final fantasy
xiii trilogy expectations were high for
this confusingly named sequel it was
therefore a surprise when lightning
returns lived up to bare review of those
expectations
yeah that’s not right you’re supposed to
throw your life away quests we’re
trivial and boring characters were not
interesting and the whole game was
plagued by a maximum 13 day time limit
that ended up discouraging players from
going off the beaten path having said
that this is still a Final Fantasy game
and the world and characters of
lightning returns are visual marvels
both artistically and technically but
not even beautifully rendered chocobos
can save lightning returns from
mediocrity the break steel battalion
heavy armor giant max usually make
everything better progres tably this was
not the case for steel battalion heavy
armor after the first steel battalion
failed to impress thanks to its unfair
difficulty and ridiculously over
elaborate controller Capcom decided to
take the opposite approach with the
sequel which was mostly controlled with
the Kinect the Xbox 360s infamously
unreliable motion control sensor the
result is a complete mess of a game that
either misinterprets or just plain
misses all of the players attempts to
control it no matter how much they play
all their arms about which is a real
shame
because who wouldn’t want to pilot these
badass looking mechs around a haunting
apocalyptic version of Earth
number seven no man’s God oh man this
one still hurts after a couple years a
grand promises the height for no man sky
was built up to insane levels and with
those trailers of beautiful mysterious
worlds and weird and diverse alien
creatures it looked like this space sim
would really allow us to let us live out
our greatest space offer fantasies then
it came out and though the 18
quintillion planets did look colorful
and vibrant there really wasn’t anything
to do on them
the gameplay was barely more engaging
than a shallow minecraft clone and there
weren’t all that many reasons to explore
the massive galaxy in the first place to
result that a huge sandbox with no toys
isn’t a very fun sandbox
number six layer
[Music]
how do you mess up a game that revolves
around badass nights riding equally
badass dragons into epic battles by
implementing force motion controls of
course didn’t you learn anything from
steel battalion oh it said that came out
later whatever layers on spiring visuals
and totally red dragon riding concept
gun completely brought down by the
control scheme which uses the then-new
PlayStation 3 controllers imprecise and
cynic e6 access motion control sensor
[Music]
while tearing through this guy’s on a
terrifying wicked beast looks terrific
actually flying with any sort of
precision is not impossible while this
may be more realistic gamers aren’t
really looking for realism when it comes
to dragon flying simulators number five
call of duty black ops Declassified
[Music]
this one should have stayed classified
am i right the first Call of Duty title
to arrive on Sony’s handheld PlayStation
Vita console there’s no denying that
black ops declassified nails the look of
the series with technically competent
weapons characters and environments but
when those same weapon characters and
environments all lack personality and
the gameplay is just bland those nice
graphics don’t mean squat add in awkward
touchscreen controls glitches galore and
a story mode that can be finished in
under an hour and you have a game that
even a hardcore Call of Duty fans would
like redacted from their memory number 4
Sin City this is one city you really
don’t want to live in I mean for one
thing they make you have internet a
reboot of developer Maxis is classic
SimCity was meant to be one of the most
fully featured city simulators ever but
after a promising beta the finished
product ended being unplayable thanks to
server issues caused by the games forced
online features making matters much
worse was that even after some of these
issues were fixed the game liked many of
the features from previous SimCity games
including subway building and traffic
control and while the graphics were
smooth and streamlined the maximum size
of cities was drastically smaller than
the previous installment in the end this
city is as artificial and hollow as a
movie set
number three Resident Evil 6 when you
take the scares out of a horror game
you’re not really left with much
Resident Evil 6 found this up the hard
way
after the success of the more
action-oriented Resident Evil 4 and to a
lesser extent Resident Evil 5 Capcom
decided to almost completely abandon the
series of survival horror routes for the
6th century unfortunately they also
abandon the wacky charm and
white-knuckle tension of the previous
instalments and replaced them with
generic third-person shooting and more
QuickTime events than you could shake an
analog stick at having said that the
environments still have a spooky
atmosphere and the monster designs look
really good but the lack of actual
Horrors still managed to drive series
fans her way number 2 ride son of Rome
this is the best looking cutscene you’ve
ever played as a launch title for the
Xbox one Ryze looks absolutely stunning
and – sweeping Roman vistas and
beautifully chaotic battle scenes do a
great job of showing off the power of
Microsoft’s console if rise at only been
a tech demo it would have been truly
impressive but instead Crytek’s visually
stunning sword and sandals epic was sold
as a full priced game and when people
got their hands on it they were mostly
disappointed combat is shallow and
repetitive the campaign is short and
lacks replay value and despite the
meticulously rendered environments the
game is frustratingly linear if rise
were a gladiator there’s no doubt that
it would get us some now
number one the order 1886 nothing quite
like a chilly Monday morning to
stimulate the census if you follow
gaming this one should come as no
surprise set in an alternate universe
version of Victorian London every facet
of the orders world explodes with
details from the crowded streets of the
city to the lavish halls of opulent
mansions the game characters including
stuffy aristocrats and savage half-breed
likens aren’t given plenty of
personality and backstory but in the end
none of us mattered because the game
feels like a barely interactive theme
park ride as you move from one generic
cover shooting section to another
through static environments it becomes
clear that the game’s main philosophy
was look but don’t touch
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
aren’t everything welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 bad games
with good graphics before we begin we
publish new videos every day so be sure
to subscribe for more great content for
this list we’ll be looking at gorgeous
games that forgot one crucial ingredient
fun what do you think of our options
number 10 Dark Void
this game strapped on a jet pack and
flew too close to the Sun set in a
mysterious world known only as the void
and filled with hostile alien forms
spaceships and ragtag human survivors
Dark Void gives you a mysterious
environment to explore and a cool jet
pack with which to explore it
unfortunately the game never really
takes advantage of its interesting
setting and instead settles for being a
bog-standard cover shooter with a
forgettable plot that’s over way too
soon
while it had the potential to soar Dark
Void could never make it off the ground
number 9 lightning returns final fantasy
xiii
just like lightning this JRPG is all
flash and no substance as the final
entry in the very divisive final fantasy
xiii trilogy expectations were high for
this confusingly named sequel it was
therefore a surprise when lightning
returns lived up to bare review of those
expectations
yeah that’s not right you’re supposed to
throw your life away quests we’re
trivial and boring characters were not
interesting and the whole game was
plagued by a maximum 13 day time limit
that ended up discouraging players from
going off the beaten path having said
that this is still a Final Fantasy game
and the world and characters of
lightning returns are visual marvels
both artistically and technically but
not even beautifully rendered chocobos
can save lightning returns from
mediocrity the break steel battalion
heavy armor giant max usually make
everything better progres tably this was
not the case for steel battalion heavy
armor after the first steel battalion
failed to impress thanks to its unfair
difficulty and ridiculously over
elaborate controller Capcom decided to
take the opposite approach with the
sequel which was mostly controlled with
the Kinect the Xbox 360s infamously
unreliable motion control sensor the
result is a complete mess of a game that
either misinterprets or just plain
misses all of the players attempts to
control it no matter how much they play
all their arms about which is a real
shame
because who wouldn’t want to pilot these
badass looking mechs around a haunting
apocalyptic version of Earth
number seven no man’s God oh man this
one still hurts after a couple years a
grand promises the height for no man sky
was built up to insane levels and with
those trailers of beautiful mysterious
worlds and weird and diverse alien
creatures it looked like this space sim
would really allow us to let us live out
our greatest space offer fantasies then
it came out and though the 18
quintillion planets did look colorful
and vibrant there really wasn’t anything
to do on them
the gameplay was barely more engaging
than a shallow minecraft clone and there
weren’t all that many reasons to explore
the massive galaxy in the first place to
result that a huge sandbox with no toys
isn’t a very fun sandbox
number six layer
[Music]
how do you mess up a game that revolves
around badass nights riding equally
badass dragons into epic battles by
implementing force motion controls of
course didn’t you learn anything from
steel battalion oh it said that came out
later whatever layers on spiring visuals
and totally red dragon riding concept
gun completely brought down by the
control scheme which uses the then-new
PlayStation 3 controllers imprecise and
cynic e6 access motion control sensor
[Music]
while tearing through this guy’s on a
terrifying wicked beast looks terrific
actually flying with any sort of
precision is not impossible while this
may be more realistic gamers aren’t
really looking for realism when it comes
to dragon flying simulators number five
call of duty black ops Declassified
[Music]
this one should have stayed classified
am i right the first Call of Duty title
to arrive on Sony’s handheld PlayStation
Vita console there’s no denying that
black ops declassified nails the look of
the series with technically competent
weapons characters and environments but
when those same weapon characters and
environments all lack personality and
the gameplay is just bland those nice
graphics don’t mean squat add in awkward
touchscreen controls glitches galore and
a story mode that can be finished in
under an hour and you have a game that
even a hardcore Call of Duty fans would
like redacted from their memory number 4
Sin City this is one city you really
don’t want to live in I mean for one
thing they make you have internet a
reboot of developer Maxis is classic
SimCity was meant to be one of the most
fully featured city simulators ever but
after a promising beta the finished
product ended being unplayable thanks to
server issues caused by the games forced
online features making matters much
worse was that even after some of these
issues were fixed the game liked many of
the features from previous SimCity games
including subway building and traffic
control and while the graphics were
smooth and streamlined the maximum size
of cities was drastically smaller than
the previous installment in the end this
city is as artificial and hollow as a
movie set
number three Resident Evil 6 when you
take the scares out of a horror game
you’re not really left with much
Resident Evil 6 found this up the hard
way
after the success of the more
action-oriented Resident Evil 4 and to a
lesser extent Resident Evil 5 Capcom
decided to almost completely abandon the
series of survival horror routes for the
6th century unfortunately they also
abandon the wacky charm and
white-knuckle tension of the previous
instalments and replaced them with
generic third-person shooting and more
QuickTime events than you could shake an
analog stick at having said that the
environments still have a spooky
atmosphere and the monster designs look
really good but the lack of actual
Horrors still managed to drive series
fans her way number 2 ride son of Rome
this is the best looking cutscene you’ve
ever played as a launch title for the
Xbox one Ryze looks absolutely stunning
and – sweeping Roman vistas and
beautifully chaotic battle scenes do a
great job of showing off the power of
Microsoft’s console if rise at only been
a tech demo it would have been truly
impressive but instead Crytek’s visually
stunning sword and sandals epic was sold
as a full priced game and when people
got their hands on it they were mostly
disappointed combat is shallow and
repetitive the campaign is short and
lacks replay value and despite the
meticulously rendered environments the
game is frustratingly linear if rise
were a gladiator there’s no doubt that
it would get us some now
number one the order 1886 nothing quite
like a chilly Monday morning to
stimulate the census if you follow
gaming this one should come as no
surprise set in an alternate universe
version of Victorian London every facet
of the orders world explodes with
details from the crowded streets of the
city to the lavish halls of opulent
mansions the game characters including
stuffy aristocrats and savage half-breed
likens aren’t given plenty of
personality and backstory but in the end
none of us mattered because the game
feels like a barely interactive theme
park ride as you move from one generic
cover shooting section to another
through static environments it becomes
clear that the game’s main philosophy
was look but don’t touch
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from WatchMojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
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