5 of the Worst Xbox Games You Must See to Believe 

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These days its easier to avoid bad games with internet reviews from your smartphone when out game hunting. But way back, we'd just gravitate to what looks cool. And some of those games do look pretty cool. But obviously fall flat when it comes to gameplay!

I am really enjoying this series of worst games per system. Keep up the great work

OG Xbox, Still a Classic System!

Aquaman's definitely not in my top tier of heroes but I also think some studio could legit make a fun game with the character and world if they took the time.

"He looks dumb, I think I'll play with him." - The Immortal 🤣🤣🤣

I loved the Xbox 1 so much in my teens. Chose it over the PS2. Every couple years I get it out and play both KOTORs.

a huge library like OG Xbox has to have some stinkers in the mix

Far and away, Robocop. The game plays so slowly, and so many invisible enemies can one shot you. No checkpoints in the level. Back to the start after ever death. Doors that all look the same, but only one of them actually opens. Wandering around the level for 30 minutes wondering where to go. I make a couple videos a year as a hobby, and I had to do one on it. It was so bad.

I have seen some pretty bad OG Xbox Games in my time. All if not maybe 1 or 2 I bought literally from the most random place to ever buy video games : Kohl’s Kids Toy Section (Early to Mid 2000’s). I did find a couple of gems from time to time like Grabbed By The Ghoulies or Psychonauts. But yeah if I had to put my finger on it these were the absolute worst games I ever played. 1. Gravity Games Bike: Street, Vert, And Dirt 2. Nickelodeon Party Blast 3. Drake of the 99 Dragons 4. Sneakers (Toys R Us Exclusive) 5. Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis 6. Kabuki Warriors 7. Batman: Dark Tomorrow 8. Pulse Racer 9. Crime Life: Gang Wars 10. Classified: The Sentinel Crisis Dishonorable Mentions: 1. World War II Combat: Road To Berlin 2. World War II Combat: Iwo Jima 3. Bruce Lee: Quest For The Dragon 4. Stake: Fortune Fighters 5. Army Men: Major Malfunction

Celebrity Deathmatch would fit here well, too

Hey sweet I remember those g.i. Joe's, did you have the ones with the elastics to connect everything through the torso? You could spin the legs and wind it up to unleash an awesome tornado spin kick

I remember seeing Drake on AVGN and thinking how cool it looked. Just comes down to gameplay

great series Mr.Hancock! loving the videos. we always here of the greats but few take the time to show off the worst of the worst X)

That hat! 🤩 Great video, John. Aquaman has many issues but when I first played it I loves the all-angles feel of action. It certainly has its issues but still remains a fun memory.

All those games you named in the beginning remind me of my childhood lol. Having friends with older brothers was the best, I was like 7-8 playing halo 2 online at their house. His brother was around 15 at the time so he knew how to do everything

These are starting to become my favorite videos that your making

Lovin these bad video game episodes

Good video! Good thing I don't have any of the bad XBOX games! Not sure I would pick any of them up! I like these ranking and bad games videos you have been doing!

Great video. Thanks, John. You really like to callout those stinkers.

i so love the og Microsoft Xbox hands down. but my first console and 2nd fav console is the Nintendo entertainment system (thanks mom rip) what about S.R.S. street racing syndicate? it was originally was for the 3DO i think i read some where a few years ago but it finally made it to the Xbox and triggerman. one of the first releases for the og xbox. i thought it was suppose to be for the N64 but it got pushed back past to other makers or something and it finally ended up on the xbox. do you own all the NTSC xbox games? im trying to go for a full set and maybe the PAL and AUS (yes ik its technically PAL) and NTSC-J but i always find it hard to find the NTSC-J console for at least a decent price and i cant read nor speak japanese. ive always wanted a mountain dew xbox. i should of bought mine a few years ago. just wish i had the shell then stuck in a working black one. arent ppl still making homebrews for the og xbox? i find a sit but havent looked. hugs love and bee safe :D

The cover for Pulse Racer looks like the epitome of the "Graphic Design is my passion" meme

John, long time viewer, rescent subscriber.. Love your content, breakdowns, and enthusiasm! Not a huge sega fan such as yourself, but love you cover all systems. Keep it up!

That sword fighting game looks flat out unfinished!

Love your videos man, keep up the good work🤙🤙

How does the footage look so good, are you capturing on emulation?

Van Helsing, a game that had so much potential but was rushed out into the market to correspond with the movie release was full of bugs, specially the camera control was a real shocker. I loved the game but I wish they finished it properly, so disappointing.

Man you have become one of my favorite RU-vidrs recently. You aren't the most articulate, but I fuckin love your enthusiasm and experience.

Loving the vids. One game that would up there with the worst xbox games would be Batman Dark Tomorrow

Dang it John, you must respond to me because I live in Redding and grew up here. :) I’m sure I ran into you somewhere. But I was a much younger gamer I think. Born in 87. But I remember all of the game stores, like Software etc. Bogbean was one of my favorites.

I totally made some stove top popcorn (don’t have a microwave) thanks John 😊

I remember the reviews for Stake and Drake back in the day. X-Play actually put melted butter and herbs on their copy of Stake.

What are you using to upscale and capture?

I love these Niche type of videos you have been posting recently!

My guy, you came through!!! I loved my OG Xbox but man were there some hot trash games on it. Dreamcast, Game Boy & Game Gear next please!!!

Love this series. Keep up the good work.

Funny that I was eating popcorn when the video appeared on my tv. Good content

Never heard of any of these but today I did discover one of the best: Psychonauts!

You know why I like you? You never stop smiling ! That's so rare in this world! Keep doing you, my brother!

06:43 And so I decided to go with Void... Should have been called A-void 😂

In no particular order 1. Batman: Dark Tomorrow, 2. Bad Boys: Miami Takedown / Bad Boys II 3. Torino 2006 4. Antz Extreme Racing 5. Shrek Super Party

This is a cool idea for a series I like it good video. These games definitely look bad and the first one surprised me I never knew there was a Aquaman Game.

I was hoping you would talk about Stake and you did lol! I bought it for few bucks about 3 months ago. I was like how bad could it be.....well.

A game I remember buying only because of the awesome cover. It was so cool looking to me as a15 year old. Could not wait to play it. Then I played it. Rage quit and couldn't wait to get back up to funcoland to trade it in was "Trigger Man".. I think that might be the definition of shovelware trash.

How have I never subbed to this channel before, today that changes. Great video!

Are you near Redding? I’m just south of Chico, if you’re ever this way we should do a range day. If you’ve never shot an M4, MP5 or Deagle?

Do worst Gamecube Games :D

I love how when I watch top 10 best or most expensive game videos I have none of them but when I watch worst game videos I will actually have some of them.

Do you have a “best of-“ series already? That would be fun too. Love this channel!!!

You are a realey nice Man!!!Greets from Austria😃😃

This is great, thanks 👍

Awesome video as always thanks for the awesome work

What they managed with burnout revenge was super impressive

i vividly remember Drake getting terrified rating back then

Really liking these worst games uploads.

When I close my eyes it's like I'm listening to Wreck it Ralph bashing garbage games

The second I saw the title of this video I knew Aquaman would be on there. At least it is one of the backwards compatible titles on the Xbox 360. I pop it in every once in a while, but basically when I want to waste time without thinking much.

Dude, I love your vids! Keep it up!

John we are about the same age and before i subed i watched alot off ur videos,, and agree with u so much👍

Software Etc. in Redding! Lol that brings back some great memories!

i vote for 'sneakers' was it about christmas? or mice? we will never know

Love the series! I thought of kabuki warriors as soon as I seen the title Edit: Hwayoooooooo

I miss being able to rent games. Even if I sometimes ended up renting a pos like Kabuki warriors

A really fun, and I feel overlooked game, is Armed & Dangerous. Great shooting action game with a skewed sense of humor.

OMG Barty from Stake Fortune Fighter had her DD's just hanging out! I would have loved it just for that back when I was 12.

They made an Aquaman game?! Oh yeah, I forgot that I forgot. Cause thats what we gamers want, a whole game of one extended water level. There ya go.

I got one: Murakumo. It looks great and the idea is promising, but it plays horrendous.

Couldn't remember if you had covered bio freaks on the original PlayStation.

Big take-aways from this video: One--John is really good at making bad he's entertaining! Two--John does not like button mashing lol

I own all of these games! Woooo!

OG xbox made western PC games accessible to the mass due to it's hardware and focus which I think then became standard in the following generations.

Man within seconds of this video mentioning Project Gotham, KOTOR the Halos and Crimson skies, you brought me back!

This game was for 360 but I never had so much fun in a racing game when you can race the Michelin test track and everybody would pick the same car and it would just be perfect drafting racing just like NASCAR but better then they could ever do it , but the best cars to pick were the T1s some of the closest finishes and racing I've ever been a part of , I remember One race we all crossed the finish line within the same second..... 🤗

Full spectrum warrior is a really good tactical military sim xbox title. It can be played now on the xbox one and series s/x too, even with the original disc.

I think “boring” is the worst offense a game can commit. There’s something especially janky about poorly made games from this era. I feel like bad NES games, for example, were more common and acceptable as playable games. The birth of the 3D era was an awkward birth to say the least

As soon as you showed gameplay of Drake my internal 12 year old said "screw this i'm going to play Max Payne"

The cars in pulse racer are far too small for that environment. It makes it look like they are toy cars!

I enjoy this series topic you do for different consoles

Great video. Those Burger King games are up there too. That greasy fuckin triple whopper was good though, so I cant complain too much.

Kabuki Warriors did have me laughing immediately when I started playing. Not a lot of comedicly bad games, more like genres to avoid. Cabela's Deer Hunt 2004 Season (or any Cabela's games) are worth missing entirely. High Rollers Casino and other sports related games didn't age well. I'd much rather play Aquaman.

Totally irrelevant but they need to do a power stone collection remaster. I don’t need a remake because it’s fine as is just needs an HD update and re-release for around 29.99

I think you covered the "best of the worst" here. I recall back when Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) first published, Pulse Racer and Stake: Fortune Fighters were the only two to get a score of 1.0 out of 10. Nothing else came close at the time of that issue's release - around the time Ninja Gaiden released in '04. For Drake, I remember OXM also covered that one - they were the only ones I remember covering it. One of the big points they covered was "each of the controller trigger fires the gun associated with that hand." Really? That's a selling point?

The Aquaman game looks like Superman 64 but underwater.

Okay. There was a game for the original xbox that I can't remember the name of for the life of me. Either this was all the game was, or I couldn't progress further: but essentially you were a yellow car, in a completely empty city, and if you drove within the law, you were just left to wander. But if you made ONE traffic violation, a cop would wheel out of no where and viciously pursue you. Anymore, followed by more even faster cops.

I liked Aquaman. But I did get it for around $8 new. It was right by the checkout lane, so an impulse buy. Like a Zagnut bar. I got what I paid for. Still, it could have been amazing and it's not.

i bought a few DC comics games for my 360 and DS lite when i was in the midst of a DC addiction, Aquaman ended up curing it because it was so boring and frustrating to play!

Where did you get your hat, John? I want one!!

That is a hard list to beat. I was expecting Bomberman to be on there. I was so sad that X-Box has four controller ports built in, and yet they gave us a single player Bomberman game. At least Bomberman Online on the Dreamcast was okay, but the best Bomberman titles are the SNES releases and Atomic Bomberman for PC.

In terms of reviewing bad games, I like to call this "Gaming Nightmares". Just like Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, I change the name from Kitchen to Gaming.

Project Gotham Racing. I never played it far enough to get to the part with Batman.

"The DaVinci Code" controls cant be changed or inverted. Cant get past 1st stage in Library. Bummer of a game. I liked the movie.

Curious to know what the worst SNES games would be.

Shellshock Nam 67. I maybe played it a total of 12 minutes after renting it from Blockbuster. I was really looking forward to playing a game set during the Vietnam war but it was an awful boring mess

I heard that "Shrek" on the Xbox was just as terrible to play, especially since it was made by the same people who released "Aquaman: Battle For Atlantis".

Aquaman spawned the infamous "Golden Mullet Awards" for the worst games reviewed on XPlay on Tech TV and G4. A classic.

Freakin John Hancock. Love this guy, man.

A few additional pieces of data: Pulse Racer: John you did not mention the idea behind Pulse Racer. Your car is tied to your heart rate and when it gets too high, you are forced to stop until it drops. Does this make the game better….nope but the animation is worth a great laugh. Drake: Yes it is a terrible game but worth calling out that it was forced out unfinished.

So I didn't invest in an Xbox (I chose the Gamecube initially between the three and then much later a PS2) but I did pay plenty of attention to it and the one game that was surprisingly poor, based on the games that it was attempting to emulate, was Blinx. How the game could be so slow and with that poor of play mechanics given the 3D mascot-platformer and how to make them had become so well established was hard to believe, especially since the Xbox had the most horsepower of the three consoles at that time. No excuse for it to be that bad or for it to be released in that condition.

Such a shame for Kabuki warriors. It's always really sad when a game with a interesting & unique idea gets through all the red tape and manages to get itself on the store shelves but flops. When that happens it just makes companies even less willing to put a unique game into development instead of what they always do which it's rinse and repeat.

You gained a new subcriber