You have asked for it and MegaGames was happy to oblige. Thousands of messages, over the past year, have come to MG central with various comments, complaints, expletives and cries of despair regarding games which you feel have failed to meet the demands of their price tag. This year, for the first time, our voters were asked to give us their favorite-worst game of 2005. It’s not a hard concept to grasp, we struggled a bit but 8 straight hours of gaming will do that to you, you decide which game disappointed you the most last year, which title promised the most and delivered the least, which franchise or original IP you believe will act as a blemish on its developer’s record, which game will gradually disappear from the portfolio of its creator… and so on and so forth.
It seems that voters were split as your choices tended to be wide-ranging and some voted for some of the Top 10 titles as your worst game of 2005. This is a testament to 2005 and its confusing effect on gaming as new consoles were promised then revealed then released but new games were not. Many have described 2005 as the calm before the storm of next-generation gaming and claim that as such the year could not produce stunning games or major innovations since games creators were involved in work which will not surface until 2006 or 2007. There is some merit in this thought as during 2005 we were treated to some work that is going on behind the scenes, including such marvels as the Unreal engine 3.
The year that has just gone by has brought us more promises than a political rally on election eve and in many respects 2005 will cannot be fully appreciated or assessed until 2006 and possibly 2007. Having written all that, we have to pause for a minute and accept that 2005 did produce some really, I mean really terrible games; titles that make you embarrassed to even admit that you paid to possess them and games that should make their creators rethink their day job status.
So read on to discover which game, you have decided, deserves the golden razzie equivalent of the gaming world.
