The worst PlayStation games show the other side of one of the best video game consoles ever.
One cannot overstate the importance of thefirst Sony PlayStation.
They cant all be winners, though.
Lets take a look at the bottom of the barrel.
Twisted Metal III
This ones a personal grudge.
One of the discouraging things in a game franchise is when they have to start from scratch.
Thats the case forTwisted Metal III.
989 was tasked with building a sequel from the ground up in only eight months.
The gameplay is simply annoying.
Some of the stages are just generic open areas with no actual creativity thrown in there.
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14.
Yes, it was a leap year.
As the company circled the drain, its final video game was also its most questionable.
As the story goes, EA released a game a year earlier calledWCW Mayhem.
Oh boy, did the suits learn the wrong lesson from those results.
And so, we gotWCW Backstage Assault, a game that is ONLY backstage brawling.
No rings, no crowds, nothing.
Just La Parka and Sid Vicious fighting in a parking lot.
Austin Powers Pinball
In 2001,KISS Pinballwas released.
It retailed for a mere $10, and many would say they were overcharged for it.
The game featured only two virtual pinball tables, both of which felt completely lifeless.
As someone who has nothing but apathy for KISS, its something I can at least shrug off.
After all, at least the game has generic rock music and sound effects that go with that.
It could be worse.
Worse would be 2002sAustin Powers Pinball.
Again at $10, this is little more than a reskinning ofKISS Pinballbut with Austin Powers.
A year later, Probe would give usFantastic Four, which just lacked the energy of its thematic predecessor.
But the whole thing is just boring and repetitive.
Would it have killed you guys to throw in silk shirt Luke Cage or Ghost Rider?
The Monarch of Latveria deserves better than such janky nonsense!
Simpsons Wrestling
The Simpsonsand wrestling were two things that were crazy popular in the late 90s.
Its just that the whole game is a wonky, shallow experience.
Its not even much of a wrestling game.
Its more like an arena fighting game built on a platformer engine.
Just jumping on heads and spamming attacks with no sense of strategy or balance.
Whoever picks Flanders practically has it in the bag.
Hey, can we interest you in virtually driving a car across various landscapes?
And thats all it is.
Its a divorced dads dream come true.
Probably should wipe the wing sauce off your hands.
Bruce Willis Korben Dallas gets access to firepower while Milla Jovovichs Leeloo focuses on hand-to-hand combat and acrobatics.
Unfortunately, the game falls so flat.
Everything about it is dull and sluggish.
Its occasional attempts at following the movies narrative feel incoherent.
The controls and platforming are atrocious, while the enemy AI is laughably inept.
They will usually just stand there and wait for you to shoot them dead.
Or maybe theyre just starstruck because, holy shit, its Bruce Willis!
People love that guy, right?
Too bad the game itself is so unfortunately put together.
Released by Telegames in 2002, it came out for both the PlayStation and the Game Boy Advance.
Now, at least the graphics make sense for something on the GBA.
Its notgood, but it at least feels like it fits the hardware.
On the PlayStation,Santa Claus Saves the Earthis a confusing mess.
The physics of it are all over the place.
The level design also leaves a lot to be desired.
At least people were only going to be tricked into playing this garbage one month of the year.
The idea had potential and it eventually gave usShaolin Monks.
It just needed to be some level of playable.
What was left was a repetitive and broken game based around Jax searching generic buildings for key cards.
Sometimes death is better.
Early on in PlayStations lifecycle wasCriticomfrom Kronos Digital Entertainment.
Looking at screenshots, you might be fooled into thinking it was worth playing.
Good-looking character models with a nice sci-fi warrior aesthetic.
Then you start playing the damn thing and it all falls apart.
Rascal
Rascalwas almost a good game.
Hell, Ill even say thatRascalcould have been agreatgame!
Graphically, it looks pretty decent, with character designs thought up by Jim Hensons Creature Shop.
The level design is full of personality.
As a 3D platformer, it easily could have been a total gem of a release.
The problem was that executive meddling hit it like a Falcon Punch.
This poor game never stood a chance.
Succumbing to those notes caused camera issues that seemed impossible to fix.
Spawn: The Eternal
In the wise words of Ron Swanson, Never half-ass two things.
There are good ideas buried in this one, but it needed far more time in the oven.
Its simple, but its the gameplay that makes it so head-scratching.
The Eternaltries to tie two genres together, but neither one works.
The adventure stuff is incredibly dull and tedious.
The fighting game stuff is half-baked and too simplistic.
Its fitting that our hero is an undead soldier becauseSpawn: The Eternaljust has so little life in it.
Bubsy 3D
This one makes me feel bad.
Its one thing to make a knockoff of another game and fall short.
However, it came out five months afterSuper Mario 64and two months afterCrash Bandicoot.
Yes, this was aBugs Life/Antzsituation and Eidetic never had a chance.
It feels like it was so close, yet way too far away.
Id say Bubsy deserved better but come on…its Bubsy.
Hellboy: Asylum Seeker
Back in 2000, Cryo Studios released the PC gameHellboy: Dogs of the Night.
It was not very good, but these things happen.
A PlayStation port was worked on, but it was decided not to release it.
Fair enough, especially since Cryo Studios went under in the aftermath.
Hellboy goes around solving puzzles in a tiresome survival horror setting aided only by the most mundane fighting skills.
Need to fight a monster?
Not that the move does all that much in the first place, mind you.
Its a bland experience that happens to be uglier and buggier than the original.
The Crow: City of Angels
Hey, check it out!
A game based onThe Crow…s sequel.
Full disclosure, I sawCrow: City of Angelsin theaters and I honestly do not remember anything about it.
Wish I could say the same for its video game adaptation.
Instead of the nigh invincibility from the movie, Ashe has the otherworldly power of bad hit detection.
As he wanders through rejectedResident Evillocations and meets random goons who greet him with, Hey, clown face!
