The 10 Worst Video Games of 2021

Need further proof that we are now living in the darkest timeline? How about the inclusion of one of the gaming world's most heralded franchises in our list of the year's worst games. Rockstar's remastered compilation of three older Grand Theft Auto titles—2001's Grand Theft Auto III, 2002's Vice City, and 2004's San Andreas, each scoring in the 90s upon their original releases—turned out to be one of 2021's biggest gaming disappointments. The remastered graphics managed to both remove some of the originals' charms and introduce new distractions and inconsistencies, while the compilation was also unexpectedly buggy at launch. The next-gen console versions (on PS5 and XBX) of the trilogy were marginally better than this Switch version, which suffered from even more performance issues, but they were still utterly disappointing.

“Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition on Switch delivers three of gaming's true greats in a shockingly rough package that manages to suck pretty much all of the fun out of Rockstar's stellar crime epics. This is a poor port, a shoddy, stuttery, low resolution mess full of bugs, glitches, audio problems and more besides. If can grab this one on any other platform, we'd advise you do so or, at the very least, hold off until it's been patched and hopefully improved in the future. As things stand, this is a very, very long way from 'definitive' — this isn't the way we want to remember these games. " —Nintendo Life