Fidgit: 10 most disappointing games of 2008

For the most part, it was a very good year. I ended up with twenty candidates for my top ten slots (to be posted Wednesday). But first, the disappointments. The following aren't necessarily terrible games. In fact, some of them I quite liked. But all of them should have been considerably better than they actually are.

Read the ten most disappointing games of 2008 after the jump.

10) MotorStorm: Pacific Rift
Great graphics and great physics squandered on a poorly designed racing game. Maybe for the third one, the MotorStorm team can work on the actual game design.

9) Civilization Revolution
Elegant but brain dead. To developer Firaxis' credit, they understand how to streamline. But in the process, they managed to streamline out the AI.

8) Mercenaries 2
This one was delayed until August. It should have been delayed until November.

7) Age of Conan
It's a bad enough time to release a fantasy MMO. But it's an even worse time to release a poorly made fantasy MMO based on a moribund license.

6) No More Heroes
A great meta-joke of a game, but it's not much of a game and the joke's on you. Literally. This is a game about what losers the people who play it are.

5) Red Alert 3
A hundred little interactive bits moving super fast with occasional embarrassing interruptions by minor celebrities and Jonathan Pryce.

4) Siren: Blood Curse
Even (especially?) inscrutable Japanese horror falls apart without a better resolution

3) Too Human
Although it's an action RPG that misses the point of action RPGs, it's one of the year's only game about cyber-Vikings.

2) Force Unleashed
Great story, shame about the game.

1) Haze
The guys who made Goldeneye and Timesplitters have come to this?

Tomorrow: the 10 most overrated games of 2008