10 Bad Video Games With One GREAT Level



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40 thoughts on “10 Bad Video Games With One GREAT Level”

  1. I really enjoyed Infinite Warfare.
    I can see how if you're a fan of real world warfare shooters you may not like this entry to the series.
    I'm a huge sci fi fan so this game was right up my alley, I'd gotten bored of modern/historical shooters because the market had become so saturated.

    A FPS sci fi game was nothing new but a genre that gets massively overlooked on consoles is space dogfights, jumping in a cockpit to have battles around big capital ships have been rare because fleet/civilisation building games have taken over (SW: Squadrons & Elite are about the only decent exceptions on Xbox).
    IW's space dogfighting is really good, the lock on to tail a ship provides excellent semi on rails dogfights skimming around capital ships, stations & debris fields.

    Missions switching between space fighting, ship boarding actions and ground battles happen multiple times in the game and they're all pretty darned good. It's not something we see games do often
    To put this game on a list called '10 Bad Video Games With One GREAT Level' makes me question if the writer actually played this game.
    The opening mission is epic, start with a fight through the streets, then jump in a ship to go into orbit for a big epic space battle.
    There are some optional missions that are generic but overall the main story missions are really good.
    The final mission is also truly jaw droppingly epic, I won't give spoilers but it left me stunned with how epic the spectacle was.

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  2. Dead Island's trailer tells the story of a family on vacation in Banoi who were torn apart by ravenous zombies; how exactly does that not fit with the game? You even see the girl's parents in a hotel room during the prologue chapter, cementing those events as something that happened prior to the start of the game.
    The tone of the game from there matches the zombie aesthetic of the time; a Walking Dead-esque story of survivor camps, bandits, and a group moving toward safer spots and (hopefully) a cure.
    While the story itself is played out now, it's simply false to call the game "slapstick" with themes like a woman losing her father to the infection, sexual assault, and the cost of kindness in a world without the rule of law. There are rich elites who refuse entry to lower-class citizens, would-be warlords in the jungle, leveraging trust in prison gangs against personal safety, and some people who just want to watch the world burn.
    The second area, City of Morseby, is infinitely more interesting than the beach segment with the burned out, pillaged look of a town recently fallen to a ruin that it's long teetered on the precipice of.
    To say the guns overshadow the melee crafting system is absolute tosh for two reasons: 1) The most effective weapons like auto rifles and shotguns are EXTREMELY difficult to find ammo for and 2) Guns do LESS damage to the undead than melee attacks; a lot less, in fact. Guns are meant solely to deal with human enemies at range because a single headshot is enough to down them; headshots on zombies, however, do identical damage as shots to any part of the body. The best guns you have will do a tenth of the damage your similarly leveled melee weapons will, so they're not really useful outside of fighting live humans.
    The cultural hive mind says that Dead Island was a bait and switch and that it wasn't very good and editors like yourselves parrot those opinions with no personal experience to cite. What's worse, your statements are objectively false. You should be ashamed to call yourselves games journalists considering how often this happens on this channel.

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  3. Oh my god, you got my like at the Kadara entry for ME: Andromeda. ME:A is a hot mess still, but Kadara was so very decent! Sloane Kelly instantly became one of my favourite NPCs from the game; her dialogues are just so funny when you're playing as Sara. Kudos for including this!

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  4. I’m reminded of Assassins Creed Syndicate.
    While not an awful game at all (actually one of my favorites in the series) there are only two levels, 2 moments, that actually exploit the dual protagonist concept to its full. Two missions which had us switching between Jacob and Evie giving us a glimpse of what this game could’ve been.

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  5. Great video.
    I agree pretty much with all your picks except Hoth.
    If Hoth is the best part of the game "Star Wars: Shadows Of The Empire" them i'm really glad i never played the rest of the game.
    I tried the game in a Demo and/or rented it.
    Hated it.

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  6. I was expecting something from We Happy Few on here. Everything that made that game horrible had to do with it being procedurally generated. But once it had a scripted segment, it, just like Watch_Dogs, could be pretty good.

    If I had to pick one, it would probably be the underground tunnel at the end of Arthur's campaign. If nothing else, being able to assure the foreman you'd handle everything with care, then proceeding to absolutely wreck the place, was equal parts cathartic and hilarious.

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  7. No, Mass Effect Andromeda gets all the hate it deserves.

    If Infinite Warfare had bothered to hire a sci-fi writer for its plot to call into question several ideas it'd have been good.

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  8. I don’t think watchdogs is that bad of a game, it’s definitely more of ubisofts formula but I think every watchdogs got better then the last one. Not great, but it’s better then people make it out to be

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  9. The entire campaign of Marvel's Avengers was actually quite good. I wish they just kept it like that as a single player game with all the future story content already there.

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  10. Dude! What are you even talking about?! Did you even play Prey? That was a great game! One of the most mind-bendy games I’ve ever seen and I’ve never seen another game do something similar with all the crazy wonky physics that game had. I’m still disappointed that we never got a proper sequel to that game.

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  11. MGS5: Ground Zeroes.

    Not a level technically, but an absolute masterpiece compared to the following „real“ game.

    What an absolute disappointment for me! I loved the series to death from 1 to 4, but MGS5 simply just felt wrong in all ways.

    Even Raidens Spin Off was cooler 😊

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  12. so just another whatculture rearranging of ingredients. you really are the Taco Bell of gaming, it's all the same stuff pasted together differently.

    the smugness of your writers paired with the the limited range of games you play surprise me that people keep coming back to this hog trough

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  13. 7. that's the only good part of the game, the rest was a glitchy and buggy mess.
    6. it's a okay level but still bad.
    4. that part was okay, the whole game feels similar to "call of duty: black ops 3".

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