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welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down the top 10 overhyped
video games in school number 10
Star Wars The Force Unleashed kicking
off our list is the Star Wars
installment that was touted as breathing
new life into the series extending its
official Canon and allowing you to
embrace the dark side of the force set
between the good and bad Star Wars
trilogies it ended up pretty in between
or if you prefer mediocre mediocre in
terms of quality or targeting and
enemies that were immune to your forest
powers made for a really tedious
experience after the initial glitz wore
off number 9 fable developer Peter
Molyneux was credited with fueling this
hype monster himself having shamelessly
claimed that he was creating the best
game ever over the span of four years
with a team of 70 developers sure it was
an enjoyable game but it didn’t deliver
on its many revolutionary promises and
it uh shared in the age of polarizing
morality choices oddly Molyneux learned
nothing from the experience it did the
same thing with fable two and three
number eight Knight trap between the era
of 2d sprites and 3d models full motion
video was thought to be the wave of the
future
this Sega CD title is guilty for
over-promising a cutting-edge FMV
experience as a member of scat you
monitored a slumber party turned vampire
raid a clunky experience full of clips
that were easily missed it penalized
players for spending time watching the
plot segments and tastelessly promoted
the creation of the ESRB rating that we
all know today thanks a lot
number seven spore who doesn’t want to
play God while destroying him by turning
evolution into a game sounds promising
right originally titled sim everything
it was an intricate and deep simulation
game that was simple to play and build
itself as your own personal universe in
a box unfortunately the game actually
boiled down to a series of loosely
related minigames and never really
evolved past that number six haze take
it in you’re looking at 2008 supposed
halo killer this FPS told the story of a
drug that made soldiers fight harder and
smarter while experiencing reduced pain
and an altered perception of reality cue
the space marine violence it featured a
horrid plot bad level design countless
glitches a miniscule campaign weak
characters and dumb AI it turns out halo
isn’t as easy to make as you might think
number 5 Virtual Boy games ok so is the
1990s avatar was 15 years out technology
while primitive by today’s standards was
constantly producing new and amazing
things and everyone was sure that
virtual reality was just around the
corner but it wasn’t three dimensions
are nice but two colors are not number 4
Enter the Matrix why do you do that on
the topic of virtual reality one holds
more promise than entering the matrix
produced by the Wachowski brothers and
released when people still loved their
movies it was filled with glitches
awkward controls and bland environments
more importantly you couldn’t play as
the one or his friends instead you took
on a side story that resembled a poor
man’s Max Payne oh yeah and spoon or no
spoon those wheels are square number
three to human remember Eternal Darkness
while this was created by its developer
Silicon Knights
and was one of the most expensive games
ever made with an 80 million dollar
budget this futuristic Norse tale was
promised to be more epic than God of War
instead it provided us with a 10 year
development cycle and very little fun
seriously what’s going on and what’s
wrong with her face number 2 Duke Nukem
Forever I’m sure that when this game
began development the irony and the
choice of title was clearly not what
they had in mind 15 years later forever
was more than just a nice little pun
Duke jumped Game Studios game engines
and several console generations before
making his raunchy return sadly his
arrival was marred by a bit of an
identity crisis as the game couldn’t
seem to
side whether it wanted to be a modern or
retro shooter and subsequently failed at
both what about the game Duke was it any
good yeah but after 12 in years it
should be number one daikatana taking
the top spot on our list is John
Romero’s daikatana the most hyped flop
in game history straight from one of the
co-creators of the first-person Jarah
itself intended to be his magnum opus
the plot involves time travel through
various time periods to find a magical
sort however the game itself arrived
three years late ran on outdated
software had poor AI and an unplayable
design Romero even got his girlfriend to
pose for Playboy to promote it
I guess the infamous poster is addressed
to her agree with our list which games
had you hyped be sure to subscribe
before heading over to watchmojo.com for
more entertaining top 10 lists
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down the top 10 overhyped
video games in school number 10
Star Wars The Force Unleashed kicking
off our list is the Star Wars
installment that was touted as breathing
new life into the series extending its
official Canon and allowing you to
embrace the dark side of the force set
between the good and bad Star Wars
trilogies it ended up pretty in between
or if you prefer mediocre mediocre in
terms of quality or targeting and
enemies that were immune to your forest
powers made for a really tedious
experience after the initial glitz wore
off number 9 fable developer Peter
Molyneux was credited with fueling this
hype monster himself having shamelessly
claimed that he was creating the best
game ever over the span of four years
with a team of 70 developers sure it was
an enjoyable game but it didn’t deliver
on its many revolutionary promises and
it uh shared in the age of polarizing
morality choices oddly Molyneux learned
nothing from the experience it did the
same thing with fable two and three
number eight Knight trap between the era
of 2d sprites and 3d models full motion
video was thought to be the wave of the
future
this Sega CD title is guilty for
over-promising a cutting-edge FMV
experience as a member of scat you
monitored a slumber party turned vampire
raid a clunky experience full of clips
that were easily missed it penalized
players for spending time watching the
plot segments and tastelessly promoted
the creation of the ESRB rating that we
all know today thanks a lot
number seven spore who doesn’t want to
play God while destroying him by turning
evolution into a game sounds promising
right originally titled sim everything
it was an intricate and deep simulation
game that was simple to play and build
itself as your own personal universe in
a box unfortunately the game actually
boiled down to a series of loosely
related minigames and never really
evolved past that number six haze take
it in you’re looking at 2008 supposed
halo killer this FPS told the story of a
drug that made soldiers fight harder and
smarter while experiencing reduced pain
and an altered perception of reality cue
the space marine violence it featured a
horrid plot bad level design countless
glitches a miniscule campaign weak
characters and dumb AI it turns out halo
isn’t as easy to make as you might think
number 5 Virtual Boy games ok so is the
1990s avatar was 15 years out technology
while primitive by today’s standards was
constantly producing new and amazing
things and everyone was sure that
virtual reality was just around the
corner but it wasn’t three dimensions
are nice but two colors are not number 4
Enter the Matrix why do you do that on
the topic of virtual reality one holds
more promise than entering the matrix
produced by the Wachowski brothers and
released when people still loved their
movies it was filled with glitches
awkward controls and bland environments
more importantly you couldn’t play as
the one or his friends instead you took
on a side story that resembled a poor
man’s Max Payne oh yeah and spoon or no
spoon those wheels are square number
three to human remember Eternal Darkness
while this was created by its developer
Silicon Knights
and was one of the most expensive games
ever made with an 80 million dollar
budget this futuristic Norse tale was
promised to be more epic than God of War
instead it provided us with a 10 year
development cycle and very little fun
seriously what’s going on and what’s
wrong with her face number 2 Duke Nukem
Forever I’m sure that when this game
began development the irony and the
choice of title was clearly not what
they had in mind 15 years later forever
was more than just a nice little pun
Duke jumped Game Studios game engines
and several console generations before
making his raunchy return sadly his
arrival was marred by a bit of an
identity crisis as the game couldn’t
seem to
side whether it wanted to be a modern or
retro shooter and subsequently failed at
both what about the game Duke was it any
good yeah but after 12 in years it
should be number one daikatana taking
the top spot on our list is John
Romero’s daikatana the most hyped flop
in game history straight from one of the
co-creators of the first-person Jarah
itself intended to be his magnum opus
the plot involves time travel through
various time periods to find a magical
sort however the game itself arrived
three years late ran on outdated
software had poor AI and an unplayable
design Romero even got his girlfriend to
pose for Playboy to promote it
I guess the infamous poster is addressed
to her agree with our list which games
had you hyped be sure to subscribe
before heading over to watchmojo.com for
more entertaining top 10 lists
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