An interesting script and missions can't save this miserable morass of repetitious role-playing.

Namco Bandai unleash the God Of Bore, with gameplay and graphics that definitely belong in another age.

It might be okay on a mobile phone but you'll want to reverse the charges for this on Xbox Live Arcade.

Omega Factor is a classic 2D game that everyone should play. This is a shameful, artless knock-off.

There's no fairytale ending for this beat 'em-up, with its striking art and terrible control scheme.

The fake game hero stars in another fake parody, which hits neither its comedy or gameplay targets.

You'd need a very thick pair of rose-tinted glasses to appreciate this frustrating retro 2D shooter.

A masterclass in how not to do a retro remake, from the graphics to the controls to the tedious difficulty.

Embarrassingly poor Japanese role-player that manages the impossible task of playing worse than it looks.

A tired and outdated fighter and another failed attempt by SNK to update one of its classic franchises.

You'll pray for an early release from this cheap and nasty, and strangely belated, TV tie-in.

A clever use of head tracking tech is sabotaged by a game that seems specifically designed to subvert it.

The move to the Wii hasn't brought with it any significant changes, just more wasted potential.

FIFA Street meets Mario Strikers, but even as an arcade game this falls well short of world class.

It's no picnic being a psychopathic teddy bear in this shallow and repetitive 12-rated murder sim.

Time Crisis with Transformers, but not any sense of pace, excitement or fun.

Incompetent, outdated and hopelessly misconceived - but other than that a great fighter for the Wii.

Its sights are set on being a brave new kind of shooter, but this misses every target but its own feet.

Pikachu has probably had more exciting adventures visiting the men's room, than in this boring spin-off.

This doesn't fix the flaws of the original it simply finds more to keep them company, in a game that's as banal and repetitive as its protagonists' vocabulary.

If this half broken, frustrating platformer counts as one of WiiWare's biggest releases then the service is in an even worse state than we feared.

There have been worst movie tie-ins, but this fails to channel either the spirit of the film or the excitement of a real combat flight simulator.

Pity for poor Tecmo is probably the main reason why Epic Games won't be suing over this embarrassingly inept clone of Gears Of War.

There are some interesting ideas and visual effects at play here, but they're not nearly strong enough to support such a monotonous adventure.

There are a few points of interest here but the greatest accomplishment of this lacklustre role-player is making Dragon Quest IX seem even better by comparison.

Dumbing down Mario Party sounds impossible, but this strips out every ounce of fun or thought from the concept to create the most vapid Nintendo game ever.

Considerably worse than the thoroughly unremarkable original, this is a horror game but not quite in the way it was intended.

Ghost Recon re-imagined as the most boring Time Crisis clone imaginable, with a mix of genre and franchise that should never have happened.

A return to the mini-game collection formula proves predictability disappointing, with slightly more complex games but even less variety.

It often seems like you're making more effort in the game than the developers did, with this miserable showcase for PlayStation Move.

It's only a cheap pack-in title but this not only fails as a game, it's also a terrible way to show off the Wii Remote Plus/Wii Motion Plus.

There's a decent range of game modes, but none are as engaging as the other ten year old snowboard games it's trying to copy.

Whether you're a fan or not this is easily the weakest of the series, with an unwanted revisit of overfamilar locations and gameplay faults.

Good ideas and good intentions only go so far when the game itself is as incompetently made and balanced as this seriously flawed shooter.

More interesting than most official Dynasty Warriors spin-offs, but still deeply repetitive and suffering from both a lack of originality and budget.

An extra hour of combat and so much less, with a download that manages to undermine much of the impressive storytelling of the main game.

The 3DS did not need two Ridge Racer style arcade racers for its launch, least of all one as badly made as this tiresome wannabe.

Probably the least surprising game on the 3DS, but even if you do like Dynasty Warriors games this is still one of the lesser spin-offs.

Incomprehensibly poor crossover that completely ignores the history of three best-selling franchises in favour of a motion-controlled mini-game collection.

Appallingly uninteresting platformer whose bland visuals are almost as dull as its uninspired level designs.

Still virtually the same game as released on the PlayStation 2 in 2000, with only the most minor changes to the hatefully shallow gameplay.

Despite the return of Zipper this repeats all the same mistakes of the last game and seems even more old-fashioned and generic as a result.

For a brand new Nintendo franchise this is short not just on content, but also compelling gameplay and a sense of fun.

An almost blasphemous waste of the thunder god's potential, in this predictably cheap and cheerless movie tie-in.

As miserable a waste of a good licence as we've ever seen and the most bug-ridden and unimaginative download of the year so far.

It's relatively original but this unusual puzzler does nothing to justify more than the 59p it should've cost as a smartphone game.

For a Dynasty Warriors game this features some useful innovations, but compared to any other series it remains as irredeemably shallow and repetitive as ever.

Harry's film tie-in career ends with an inappropriately bland third person shooter, that is severely lacking in any kind of magic.

Good graphics, solid controls and a large open world city - the only thing missing is a challenge that lasts more than a couple of hours.

The X-Men don't have a great history in video games but this is possibly their worst outing yet and offensively poor value for money even for fans.

The Lord Of The Rings is yet again denied a decent tie-in, with this desperately uninteresting and half broken action role-player.

ModNation Racers was never top draw but this drags a previously competent franchise into the bowls of low budget cash-in hell.

The gameplay alone is overfamilar enough but the appalling value for money and dearth of content makes this the worst Ridge Racer for years.

A shoddy conversion of a shameless Diablo clone, that was perfectly good value when it was a £4.99 iPhone download but not as a full price PS Vita game.

One of the worst introductions to Pokémon - and gaming in general - a small child could suffer. The video games equivalent of corporal punishment.

Occasional flashes of mediocrity are as good as this lacklustre shooter gets, in a tedious jamboree of technical ineptitude and bland co-op action.

The third round of Dynasty Warriors vs. Samurai Warriors is almost identical to the first two, with more characters, more options, but even less innovation.

A Celtic take on God Of War sounds like a great idea, especially with these graphics, but Bloodforge's only triumph is making its inspiration look even better by comparison.

Nobody can have been expecting much from a film tie-in like this but Battleship's first person action still manages to sink well below the bottom of the barrel.

Utterly pointless and almost completely boring, this soulless scrapper has little to do with Fable and even less to do with having a good time.

Another failed Doctor Who tie-in, but one that's especially disappointing because of how much it gets right in terms of the dialogue and visuals.

Combat and storytelling are boring beyond belief, but what's worst about Inversion is that you can sense the far more interesting game it could've been just beneath the surface.

It looks like Ice Age 4, it sounds like Ice Age 4, and it plays like the frozen carcass of a 5,000 year old mammoth.

The creator of Final Fantasy creates… a not very good smartphone mini-game, with annoying controls and all the longevity of a terminally ill butterfly.

Rather than fixing the issues with the PC original the console versions only seem to add more problems, as a pirate's life is made to see even more frustrating and repetitive.

It looks like Cannon Fodder, and to a degree it plays like Cannon Fodder, but this bizarre sequel lacks the heart, soul, and mind of the 16-bit classic.

One Piece fans will enjoy the novelty but only Dynasty Warriors groupies will be able to bear the typically mindless gameplay.

A more noble failure than most Kinect games, but a failure all the same. And even beneath the control issues not a particularly good on-the-rails shooter.

Offensively awful as both a tribute to Bond and as a first person shooter, with every ounce of personality and imagination stripped from an already malformed skeleton.

A bad idea, poorly realised. Not only does this sully the already tarnished name of Silent Hill but it's a tediously poor dungeon crawler in its own right.

The very worst thing about Declassified is that in reporting its failure we feel like we're writing an obituary for the PS Vita itself...This was make or break for Sony's portable, but such a shamefully underdeveloped shooter disgraces both the PS Vita and the Call Of Duty franchise.

A Fisher Price version of Earth Defense Force could have been fun, but this doesn't even try to offer any lasting entertainment, let alone value for money.

You can see the basis of a good game here but Omerta gets almost everything wrong, from the shallow gameplay to the bland, characterless gangster atmosphere.

Bad movie tie-ins are hardly a new phenomenon but never before has so much potential been wasted on so uninteresting a video game.

Not so much a poor man’s Gears Of War as a tramp’s, which is perhaps why one of the few distinguishing features is playing it with a loyal canine by your side.

It may be a good quality racer but this is also one of the most offensively cynical video games we’ve ever played, and despite being ‘free’ also one of the most expensive.

A sequel that seems to have learned almost nothing from the deeply flawed original, and which still only hints at the wider potential for a proper sniper sim.

The Wii U game was just a few flaws short of a minor classic, but this joyless companion piece is only a couple more problems shy of a complete disaster.

No matter what you think of the new movies no franchise deserves a tie-in as timidly generic as this, with painfully bland action and low-tech, not sci-fi, presentation.

The real mystery here is why Nintendo continues to allow such a minimum effort cash grab to dilute the Pokémon name, in yet another bland and repetitive dungeon crawler.

The Destroy All Humans! franchise goes out with a whimper not a bang in this disgracefully poor sequel.

Amateurish mix of Tomb Raider and Unreal Tournament 2004 that should have stayed as a fan-made mod.

Pitifully inept real-time strategy that makes almost every design and technology mistake possible.

Sonic speeds ever further away from his roots and into one of his most ineptly-designed games so far.

The same old Dynasty Warriors formula is reused and abused yet again, and not even giant robots can save it.

The Vietnam War has never seemed so horrific in this shockingly poor first person shooter.

Don't let the subtitle fool you - not even semi-naked girls and/or zombies can save this dire action game.

The Guinness Book of Records has but one contender for the least value-for-money video game ever made.

The corpse of survival horror gets another beating with gameplay as intangible as its ghostly antagonists.

A shamefully poor tie-in, even by normal standards, that totally ignores the potential of the license.

This inept WiiWare download won't relieve you of any stress, just £5.60 and the will to live.

Ugly, amateurish and badly made arena-based shooter that relies on a co-op mode nobody will ever play.

The only asses that need kicking in this game are those of the developer responsible for such rubbish.

Maybe Russian games are meant as punishment not entertainment. This limp strategy RPG is surely the former.

Impossibly tedious Dynasty Warriors clone that offers up not one ounce of entertainment for enduring its soul-shatteringly dull world and combat.

EA have saved the worst for (second to) last in this laughably poor third person shooter that fails as both a tie-in and a game.

One of the most imaginative and ambitious motion-controlled games ever. The only problem being that it doesn't actually work.

Even if this was free it still wouldn't be worth it.

Although the graphics are adequate, at least in comparison to the rest of the game's failings, all this is really good for is making Kinect Sports look even better by comparison.

But perhaps the most tragic thing here is that despite a critical drubbing for each game this series has made exactly the same mistakes every time.

An allegory of the video games industry featuring consoles as characters should've been comedy gold, but if this were a games machine it'd be the Atari Jaguar.

A monument to not only everything that is wrong with escort missions but with bad action game design in general.

A low tech portable monstrosity that manages to make the worst of both the DS's abilities and the Duke's legacy.

No game could've been worth this long a wait but the sheer level of incompetence and inanity is the only way that Duke Nukem Forever impresses.

Easily the worst MMA game yet and also one of the most ineptly designed and ruthlessly un-entertaining fighting games for years.

Embarrassingly poor medieval brawler that seems completely oblivious to its own absurdity and incompetence.

One of the worst Pokémon spin-offs ever, as well as one of the most unwarranted sequels. Simplistic, boring and terrible value for money.

Thank goodness Rayman is back because his would-be usurpers have never seemed more inanely un-entertaining than in this vapid mini-game collection.

South Park already has a poor track record in video game tie-ins, but this is easily the worst yet and a terrible 2D platformer in its own right.

A laughably bad ghost story whose broken technology and shallow gameplay cannot sustain even its meagre two hour running time.

A Diablo clone set in a Fallout style world sounds like a great idea, but the changes this makes to Blizzard's formula are genuinely apocalyptical.

A 3D platformer so bad it brings to mind Bubsy 3D rather than Super Mario 64, in what is a considerable step down from the already mediocre original.

A return to the very worst standards of video game tie-ins, with terrible gameplay and an equally incompetent attempt to mimic the show's humour.

Koei’s scraping of the Dynasty Warriors barrel breaks through the bottom and into the floor below, with a cheap, lazy sequel to an already sub-par game.

Possibly the worst value for money expansion of the modern era, with little more than an hour of generic action, bad storytelling, and zero scares.

A TV tie-in of such depressingly low quality you’d think it was the ‘90s once again, especially when you see the terrible graphics and artificial intelligence.

One of the worst video games ever made - brutally unfunny and monotonously inept on every level.

One of the worst movie tie-ins ever, which considering the competition is quite the achievement.

Not only a poorly disguised mobile game but one of the shallowest Tower Defence strategy games ever.

The era of interactive movies makes an unwelcome return with the worst acted lightgun in gaming history.

Making Mad Dog McCree look like Dead Space: Extraction is quite some feat in this awful lightgun game.

A virtual peep show that's tragically short on titillation, let alone gameplay or entertainment.

Not only the worst PlayStation Move game but probably the worst motion-controlled title ever. Riding through traffic on a real chair would be more entertaining.

All hardware launches have their shovelware and this is the most glaringly awful for Kinect.

Even being paid to play it we felt we were being ripped off...Awful in almost every possible aspect, this hugely disappointing download is not just a failure as a survival horror but as a video game.

The gaming equivalent of a Reliant Robin, except with none of the character or entertainment value - just a grand tour of everything you could possibly get wrong in a driving game.

A staggeringly cynical clone of DayZ, which fails utterly on every level imaginable – and with only the most unreliable of promises that it will ever improve.

One of the worst video games of all-time, although to even classify it as interactive entertainment is to flatter this most appalling of Final Fantasy spin-offs.

The interactive equivalent of irritable bowel syndrome and one of the most bizarrely awful video games ever made.