if you’re looking for a game that pushes
the boundaries of tactics and cunning
these are not for you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 worst strategy games
for this list we’ll be looking at video
games that either fell short of the
standard of their previous entries or
were just so terrible that the word
strategy can hardly be applied mobilize
the legions let us strike the first blow
number 10
command & Conquer for Tiberium Twilight
do you have questions Oh Kane what
happened we were all for the Brotherhood
of Nod why did it have to end like this
serving is the conclusion to the
Tiberium saga this title was originally
meant to be released as an online game
for a very narrow market only to be
forcibly converted as a last entry in
the series in order to boost sales I uh
proposition well let’s start things off
with the doozy here there’s no base
building what the hell EA there’s also
an entire leveling system and save
system that requires a constant online
connection
what the hell EA if you die I lose
everything instead of improving on what
made the franchise so great this
particular reworking fell very very
short Cain deserved better
hey side note I know that Cain is
supposed to be immortal in the game but
that actor doesn’t seem to age either
deny me if you lost
but do so knowing that you doomed this
planet to an endless cycle of war number
nine
storm rise it is safe repeat it is safe
this is the realtime strategy that tried
to go up against halo wars and
spectacularly failed while praise had to
be given to the innovation of the
narrative with two factions going to war
in a post-apocalyptic world there just
wasn’t enough development given to
everything else our orders are to wait
soon it will be needing us with less
than helpful controls and a camera that
is definitely not on your side
the frustration you’ll feel when you
take on the echelon or the sight removes
appreciation for the fairly decent
landscapes rendering and unique aspects
they’re trying to put on to the table
unfortunately this one just ended up
getting washed away to superior entries
of the genre freaks out you’re the freak
number eight a game of Thrones Genesis
do not let the title fool you this game
does not share any of the thrills and
wonder that you’ll find in George RR
Martin’s book series or HBO’s master
plan a patient there up taking place
over a thousand year period that
eventually leads to the war of five
Kings players choose to fight for one of
the many houses including Stark and
Lannister and battle their way through
Westeros until they capture the Iron
Throne ready
I shall expel him all well and good
except that instead of throwing battles
and devious tactics emphasis is placed
on capturing nodes via a
rock-paper-scissors mechanic along with
poorly designed campaign missions that
essentially become a big game of hide
and seek
needless to say winter has already come
and gone for this title perfect we have
driven the Lannister from these parts
hopefully their murderous folly will now
cease number seven beyond the law the
third wave if you’re dying to play a
squad based strategy game with an
old-school feel to it we recommend that
you try out commando instead because
this is certainly not up to par
primitive in both design and execution
the game is divided into twenty levels
over four areas where players will find
themselves battling what might be one of
the worst versions of the Mafia in video
games period only a few of its classes
are effective but even then the only
mechanics you’ll be using are running
and shooting looting bodies manually
reloading even jumping has all been
taken away leading to a bland experience
lacking the great intention you would
expect in a game that revolves around
hostage situations and assassinations
number 6 out host for thousands of years
Earth has been the cradle of human
civilization you want to talk about
ethics and video game journalism
well apparently PC gamer reviewed this
stinker with an unreleased beta copy and
were told that certain features would be
added and certain bugs would be removed
in the final version so they gave it a
93 computer projections show that Earth
is about to be devastated by a visitor
from deep space anyway all of that was a
lie and the bonds that made it into the
final version included things like the
game suddenly ending due to transporting
players to the wrong star system all of
the colonists suddenly dying and leaving
mechanics such as the ability to recycle
your resources open to be exploited by
the players even if you disregard all
these issues it’s just plain unfinished
9
3% might I how may I be of assistance
number 5 pirates of the Black Cove
swashbucklers have not had it easy in
the gaming community as of late and this
entry certainly didn’t help their case
while the vibrant visuals certainly make
it feel like you’re traversing the seven
seas it suffers from repetitive gameplay
of the most basic kind
rapid clicking will easily do away with
rival pirates on the ground and enemy
fleets on the ocean and from there it’s
a simple case of rinse and repeat even
though you can upgrade your ships and
build your crew the lack of any real
threat to your clicking onslaught only
creates a sense of boredom all the bad
pirate jokes in the world cannot save
this game for mediocrity number four
Warhammer 40,000 storm of vengeance with
so much awesomeness and variety in the
lore creating an epic and thrilling
realtime strategy packed with futuristic
hardcore combat should have been a
cakewalk that is not the case with storm
of vengeance which managed to squander
an opportunity by turning it into a lane
based tower defense game one that was
completely unworthy of carrying the
Warhammer 40k title
the compactness lack of AI and
similarity to the other intellectual
properties earned huge backlash from
fans of the source material and just
gamers in general no wonder it was
making the rounds on so many worst games
of 2014 lists I guess now is a good time
to mention that this was developed by
the same gang behind ride to hell
retribution ish euro for two guys number
three left behind eternal forces Elliott
what you need is a big ol hug from God
in case you were wondering yes this is
also based on the series of books that
led to that horrendous Nicolas Cage felt
but it doesn’t get any better here in
this Christian realtime strategy game
players must battle against the
Antichrist by going around and
converting enemies to the ways of Jesus
aside from the technical missteps that
include less than decent graphics and
unbalanced AI this game was subjected to
a whole slew of controversy as News edge
reporter Gloria Gomez shows us now some
religious groups are condemning this new
video game the convert or kill mechanic
is basically tasteless on its face and
that is not even taken a deep dive into
some of the more shady bits of its
design as you’d expect it frustrated
fans of the genre as well as evangelical
societies Christian groups of all people
who are leading the charge to get this
one boycotted when your christian game
is found to be not very Christian and
not very fun you’ve basically done
nothing right
ah number two Gettysburg armored warfare
now we’re reaching the bottom of the
barrel this online multiplayer was
supposed to be a hybrid of a real-time
strategy and third-person shooter open
to 64 players on a single server with
sea land and air units available for
instant combat that was what it was
supposed to be instead what players got
was an unfinished mess of a game absent
of any tutorial with bugs so severe that
it often broke the game only seconds
after loading it up the graphics were
also incredibly poor but due to the
frequent glitches you’ll be lucky to get
a glance before it even crashed due to
its broken state this real-time strategy
was dead on arrival before we reveal our
number one pick here a few dishonorable
mentions
a glorious fight huh glory to fame and
glory serving under your command is such
an honor for me colonel well let’s leave
the formalities behind and talk business
number one Stalin versus Martians
when does a parody go too far when you
end up with a game like this originally
meant to be a satire of World War 2
strategy games this title is really
quick to throw out some Soviet based
jokes but is lacking in anything even
close to resembling a real time strategy
game seriously what is even freaking
going on here levels can range from
embarrassingly easy to extremely tedious
the flawed AI may not even respond to
your unit commands not to mention the
muddy visuals invisible screen
boundaries and the six minutes of
pointless aerobic cutscenes yep that’s
actually a part of the game it’s ironic
that a game that pokes fun at strategy
titles would end up having no redeeming
value as a parody
do you agree with our list which
strategy game do you think is the worst
surely you’re not with new top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
the boundaries of tactics and cunning
these are not for you
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’ll
be counting down our picks for the top
10 worst strategy games
for this list we’ll be looking at video
games that either fell short of the
standard of their previous entries or
were just so terrible that the word
strategy can hardly be applied mobilize
the legions let us strike the first blow
number 10
command & Conquer for Tiberium Twilight
do you have questions Oh Kane what
happened we were all for the Brotherhood
of Nod why did it have to end like this
serving is the conclusion to the
Tiberium saga this title was originally
meant to be released as an online game
for a very narrow market only to be
forcibly converted as a last entry in
the series in order to boost sales I uh
proposition well let’s start things off
with the doozy here there’s no base
building what the hell EA there’s also
an entire leveling system and save
system that requires a constant online
connection
what the hell EA if you die I lose
everything instead of improving on what
made the franchise so great this
particular reworking fell very very
short Cain deserved better
hey side note I know that Cain is
supposed to be immortal in the game but
that actor doesn’t seem to age either
deny me if you lost
but do so knowing that you doomed this
planet to an endless cycle of war number
nine
storm rise it is safe repeat it is safe
this is the realtime strategy that tried
to go up against halo wars and
spectacularly failed while praise had to
be given to the innovation of the
narrative with two factions going to war
in a post-apocalyptic world there just
wasn’t enough development given to
everything else our orders are to wait
soon it will be needing us with less
than helpful controls and a camera that
is definitely not on your side
the frustration you’ll feel when you
take on the echelon or the sight removes
appreciation for the fairly decent
landscapes rendering and unique aspects
they’re trying to put on to the table
unfortunately this one just ended up
getting washed away to superior entries
of the genre freaks out you’re the freak
number eight a game of Thrones Genesis
do not let the title fool you this game
does not share any of the thrills and
wonder that you’ll find in George RR
Martin’s book series or HBO’s master
plan a patient there up taking place
over a thousand year period that
eventually leads to the war of five
Kings players choose to fight for one of
the many houses including Stark and
Lannister and battle their way through
Westeros until they capture the Iron
Throne ready
I shall expel him all well and good
except that instead of throwing battles
and devious tactics emphasis is placed
on capturing nodes via a
rock-paper-scissors mechanic along with
poorly designed campaign missions that
essentially become a big game of hide
and seek
needless to say winter has already come
and gone for this title perfect we have
driven the Lannister from these parts
hopefully their murderous folly will now
cease number seven beyond the law the
third wave if you’re dying to play a
squad based strategy game with an
old-school feel to it we recommend that
you try out commando instead because
this is certainly not up to par
primitive in both design and execution
the game is divided into twenty levels
over four areas where players will find
themselves battling what might be one of
the worst versions of the Mafia in video
games period only a few of its classes
are effective but even then the only
mechanics you’ll be using are running
and shooting looting bodies manually
reloading even jumping has all been
taken away leading to a bland experience
lacking the great intention you would
expect in a game that revolves around
hostage situations and assassinations
number 6 out host for thousands of years
Earth has been the cradle of human
civilization you want to talk about
ethics and video game journalism
well apparently PC gamer reviewed this
stinker with an unreleased beta copy and
were told that certain features would be
added and certain bugs would be removed
in the final version so they gave it a
93 computer projections show that Earth
is about to be devastated by a visitor
from deep space anyway all of that was a
lie and the bonds that made it into the
final version included things like the
game suddenly ending due to transporting
players to the wrong star system all of
the colonists suddenly dying and leaving
mechanics such as the ability to recycle
your resources open to be exploited by
the players even if you disregard all
these issues it’s just plain unfinished
9
3% might I how may I be of assistance
number 5 pirates of the Black Cove
swashbucklers have not had it easy in
the gaming community as of late and this
entry certainly didn’t help their case
while the vibrant visuals certainly make
it feel like you’re traversing the seven
seas it suffers from repetitive gameplay
of the most basic kind
rapid clicking will easily do away with
rival pirates on the ground and enemy
fleets on the ocean and from there it’s
a simple case of rinse and repeat even
though you can upgrade your ships and
build your crew the lack of any real
threat to your clicking onslaught only
creates a sense of boredom all the bad
pirate jokes in the world cannot save
this game for mediocrity number four
Warhammer 40,000 storm of vengeance with
so much awesomeness and variety in the
lore creating an epic and thrilling
realtime strategy packed with futuristic
hardcore combat should have been a
cakewalk that is not the case with storm
of vengeance which managed to squander
an opportunity by turning it into a lane
based tower defense game one that was
completely unworthy of carrying the
Warhammer 40k title
the compactness lack of AI and
similarity to the other intellectual
properties earned huge backlash from
fans of the source material and just
gamers in general no wonder it was
making the rounds on so many worst games
of 2014 lists I guess now is a good time
to mention that this was developed by
the same gang behind ride to hell
retribution ish euro for two guys number
three left behind eternal forces Elliott
what you need is a big ol hug from God
in case you were wondering yes this is
also based on the series of books that
led to that horrendous Nicolas Cage felt
but it doesn’t get any better here in
this Christian realtime strategy game
players must battle against the
Antichrist by going around and
converting enemies to the ways of Jesus
aside from the technical missteps that
include less than decent graphics and
unbalanced AI this game was subjected to
a whole slew of controversy as News edge
reporter Gloria Gomez shows us now some
religious groups are condemning this new
video game the convert or kill mechanic
is basically tasteless on its face and
that is not even taken a deep dive into
some of the more shady bits of its
design as you’d expect it frustrated
fans of the genre as well as evangelical
societies Christian groups of all people
who are leading the charge to get this
one boycotted when your christian game
is found to be not very Christian and
not very fun you’ve basically done
nothing right
ah number two Gettysburg armored warfare
now we’re reaching the bottom of the
barrel this online multiplayer was
supposed to be a hybrid of a real-time
strategy and third-person shooter open
to 64 players on a single server with
sea land and air units available for
instant combat that was what it was
supposed to be instead what players got
was an unfinished mess of a game absent
of any tutorial with bugs so severe that
it often broke the game only seconds
after loading it up the graphics were
also incredibly poor but due to the
frequent glitches you’ll be lucky to get
a glance before it even crashed due to
its broken state this real-time strategy
was dead on arrival before we reveal our
number one pick here a few dishonorable
mentions
a glorious fight huh glory to fame and
glory serving under your command is such
an honor for me colonel well let’s leave
the formalities behind and talk business
number one Stalin versus Martians
when does a parody go too far when you
end up with a game like this originally
meant to be a satire of World War 2
strategy games this title is really
quick to throw out some Soviet based
jokes but is lacking in anything even
close to resembling a real time strategy
game seriously what is even freaking
going on here levels can range from
embarrassingly easy to extremely tedious
the flawed AI may not even respond to
your unit commands not to mention the
muddy visuals invisible screen
boundaries and the six minutes of
pointless aerobic cutscenes yep that’s
actually a part of the game it’s ironic
that a game that pokes fun at strategy
titles would end up having no redeeming
value as a parody
do you agree with our list which
strategy game do you think is the worst
surely you’re not with new top 10s
published every day be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
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