A bevy of problems ensures that South Park: Tenorman's Revenge is a tedious ordeal even for those who love the television show.

Broken, buggy, and boring gameplay leaves Mercenaries 2's world in flames.

Poor controls and a ton of pointless gimmicks make for one frustrating round of Astroturf golf.

This movie-licensed World War I dogfighter takes off, stalls, and nosedives straight into the ground.

Just because a game seemingly aims to be bad on purpose doesn't make it any less of a bad game.

This platformer based on the Star Wars cartoon TV series tries to copy the Lego game formula but gets just about everything wrong.

This third-person shooter is a trip into hell.

Terrible level design, unresponsive controls, and a poor camera are just the beginning of the problems in this awful adventure.

If Rock Revolution came out two or three years ago, it might have been revolutionary, but in 2008, it's not even relevant. Uninspired presentation, a tiny tracklist that includes no master tracks, a complete lack of vocal support, uninteresting gameplay, and a barebones Career mode are just a few of the many ways in with Rock Revolution fails.

Pirates and ninjas clash with other fantasy archetypes in dodgeball matches handicapped by a legion of drawbacks.

The controls in this horror-themed minigame collection are possessed by an evil spirit whose only goal is to drive you mad.

Instead of drawing from the rich source material of the TV show, Farscape is a conventional action game with a clunky interface and a dated engine.

Painkiller: Resurrection is a buggy trip into hell.

Shallow combat, frustrating exploration, and crippling technical issues make Dragon Blade Chronicles a Naruto adventure to avoid.

This frustratingly bad first-person shooter is not the stuff legends are made of.

The solid roots of a charming series are buried under an avalanche of bugs and other issues.

FaceBreaker's impressive boxer-customization options are overshadowed by terrible gameplay.

The combat in Hellboy gets repetitive before the first level ends and never presents a challenge. This is a boring, bland game.

Third-rate mission design, prehistoric visuals, and problematic pathfinding mean that you won't enjoy playing soldier of fortune here, even if the developers have added a bit of life to the squad-sim genre with a few design innovations.

You're better off sticking with the movie than putting up with the unresponsive controls and shallow combat in Kung Fu Panda 2.

If Rock Revolution came out two or three years ago, it might have been revolutionary, but in 2008, it's not even relevant. Uninspired presentation, a tiny tracklist that includes no master tracks, a complete lack of vocal support, uninteresting gameplay, and a barebones Career mode are just a few of the many ways in with Rock Revolution fails.

While it may be a lot smoother and simpler than its predecessors, Empire Earth III has been dumbed down to the point of irrelevance.

This platformer based on the Star Wars cartoon TV series tries to copy the Lego game formula but gets just about everything wrong.

Terrible level design, unresponsive controls, and a poor camera are just the beginning of the problems in this awful adventure.

Recycled edutainment and terrible production values make this RTS survey of Roman history stale and simple.

Bland presentation and sloppy mechanics sink Battleship more effectively than a torpedo ever could.

Too much motion-sensing and some dumb design decisions make Indiana Jones' latest adventure a chore.

A revered series takes a nosedive in this embarrassing, tedious excuse for an action game.

Missed opportunities cower in every corner, ranging from an irreverence toward the subject matter in the disjointed story to the absence of familiar voices, and the gameplay feels like it started life as an amateur Bond-themed Call of Duty mod.

The embarrassing graphics and painful controls in The Incredible Hulk make citywide destruction feel boring.

A cast of five famous Bond villains conspire against you in 007 Legends, but the uninspired gameplay is your true nemesis.

Nearly two years after its buggy debut on the PC, Dark Messiah of Might and Magic comes to the Xbox 360 with even more problems.

Abysmal controls and frustrating gameplay await you in the depths of Firetop Mountain.

Even with the multitude of different sports available in Deca Sports Extreme, none will keep you playing for very long.

This clumsy and unsatisfying sequel is a major step backward.

The combat in Hellboy gets repetitive before the first level ends and never presents a challenge. This is a boring, bland game.

This dreary and derivative turn-based strategy game is about as entertaining as working an assembly line.

With deeply flawed motion controls and a number of other issues, MotionSports fumbles all its potential.

Rebel Raiders takes dull, mindless air combat action into the danger zone.

FaceBreaker's impressive boxer-customization options are overshadowed by terrible gameplay.

Old and almost impossible, Stronghold Crusader Extreme is hard to recommend even to diehard fans of this RTS series.

You won't like it when this simplistic, repetitive, and occasionally broken game makes you angry.

This platformer based on the Star Wars cartoon TV series tries to copy the Lego game formula but gets just about everything wrong.

Escape from Bug Island is a dismal reminder of the low points of survival horror's past.

If you live a life of sin and gluttony, Infernal will be waiting for you in the afterlife.

Weak graphics and dodgy controls hamstring an already mediocre air combat game.

Poor controls and dumb enemies ground this arcade air combat game, making it more chicken than bird of prey.

If evolution worked like it's supposed to, this game would have come out before Pikmin, maybe by about 35,000 years or so. But no, video game evolution works backward, beginning with an intelligent design and ending with countless dim-witted offspring. This is the story of one such far-fallen apple.

Unleashed is the worst thing to happen to Godzilla since getting killed by Mothra's babies.

With more time and potentially more resources, this could have been an exciting and enjoyable experience with the power to stand on its own, independent of the film. As it is, its pleasures rust away long before it finally gets moving.

Fanged killing machines and clunky level design make this vampiric sneaker a real pain in the neck.

Its extremely short life span, accompanied by its lukewarm presentation, ensures that few players will get more than a couple of hours' worth of enjoyment out of the home version.

Steel Battalion is riddled with erratic flaws of the most insidious kind, the kind that make you think you have a chance to master them. You don't. You can only endure them, and on a handful of levels, endure them with some friends in limp online co-op. But Steel Battalion is still miserable, even with company, so unless you're a glutton for punishment, it just isn't worth it.

As tempting as a game with both badminton and curling may be, there's no reason to recommend Deca Sports.

Busted controls and stripped-down gameplay make Tony Hawk Ride an overpriced fiasco.

Fans of sluggish frame rates and clichéd combat racers pay attention: Pocket Racers is the game for you.

It's a short game with bland mechanics, repetitive levels, and almost zero replay value, and that's not even taking into account the total absurdity of getting into a fistfight with Osama Bin Laden.

All of the missions in the game (even the ones that you can unlock by completing Murakumo's main mode) grow incredibly tiresome, not only because they're mostly identical but also because the mechs themselves are so poorly designed.

"Evil Dead: Hail to the King" unfortunately offers little of the appeal of its source material, as everything about the game is derivative, boring, or just plain bad.

Nobody has enough faith to endure a game with such a hokey story, terrible mission design, serious problems with the interface and graphics, and loads of crippling bugs.

This game sucks all the fun out of drag racing, presenting the sport as slow and tedious instead of fast and furious.

Not only does Pocket Pool miserably fail to deliver an enjoyable game of billiards, but its attempts at titillation are more depressing than anything else.

There's so little to it, and what it does offer is dull.

Unless you want to spend $20 to be bored to tears, you should stay away from Street Jam Basketball.

Between the broken physics and dark graphics--not to mention the egregious lack of a high-score list--Pac-Man Pinball Advance suffers from a litany of problems.

This game is just flat-out bad in most every way you can think of, and for a franchise with such promise and potential, that's a truly disheartening thing.

This game sucks all the fun out of drag racing, presenting the sport as slow and tedious instead of fast and furious.

This game sucks all the fun out of drag racing, presenting the sport as slow and tedious instead of fast and furious.

Simply an uninteresting licensed 3D arena shooter that feels extremely rushed and won't impress anyone.

This game is just flat-out bad in most every way you can think of, and for a franchise with such promise and potential, that's a truly disheartening thing.

7554 is a modern curiosity that plays like a shabby relic.

This hack-and-slash game is so dumbed down that it's practically an insult to anyone who can walk and chew gum at the same time, let alone the crowd that's been conquering Europe in Paradox's previous releases.

The environments are no fun to get through, fights are infrequent, and the simplistic combat is unfulfilling.

Final Fight: Streetwise doesn't look good, doesn't play well, and it can't even get its unlockable bonus--the original arcade game--right.

The frustrating gameplay will turn even the most eager gamer's experience sour after a few levels.

Major League Baseball 2K7 for the Game Boy Advance is light on features, but it's the sloppy fielding that ultimately ruins it.

A boring, repetitive exercise in countering your opponent.

In essence, Ping Pals is "PictoChat" with a lousy personality, and there's absolutely no reason why you should waste your time with it.

If Indy had encountered nonsense like this during one of his escapades, he'd have let the Nazis win. Secrets of Atlantis is best left in a watery grave.

The game is flawed on so many levels that only the most dedicated survival-horror fan might get some enjoyment out of it.

Without a doubt, the worst basketball game released this year, college or pro. It offers a subpar effort--across the board--in graphics, sound, gameplay, and extras (like the simplistic dynasty mode, for example).

You would think that a real-time strategy game would be a great fit for the Nintendo DS, but stay away from this one, with its busted artificial intelligence and half-baked minigames.

Across every category, Alien Blast defines itself as the very epitome of boredom. The action is dull, repetitive, and in some cases, a bit broken. The game's graphics are pretty much a sad, underdeveloped joke.

The lack of any strategy to the gameplay, a generally poor design, and an endless number of stability problems turn Monster Garage into a real monster, all right.

Unless you're looking for some laughs or a trip down memory lane, stay far, far away from this one.

The game utterly fails to capture the majesty and mystery of the Dune universe, turning it into an interactive Saturday morning cartoon--and a bad one at that. Toss this one to the worms.

Barely playable. The benefits of GoDai's smart control scheme and the inherent coolness of the protagonist's formidable powers are mercilessly buried by shoddy collision detection, maddeningly poor frame rates, and a primitive animation system.

Final Fight: Streetwise doesn't look good, doesn't play well, and it can't even get its unlockable bonus--the original arcade game--right.

The key differences between something like "Wipeout" and Pulse Racer is that "Wipeout" has a compelling, cohesive look, a great soundtrack, an interesting track design, and fun, responsive controls, while Pulse Racer bears none of these traits.

These are 10 awful remakes of old Sega games that will only serve to infuriate their intended audience.

A game so utterly devoid of challenge that actually calling it a game almost seems too generous. There's just nothing here beyond a monotonous, pedestrian affair, and it can be completed in a couple of hours with only the slightest of efforts.

A train wreck of a game that has no direction, no technical merit, and little appeal except as a game design house of horrors and a showcase for some good music by Stewart Copeland.

As if to draw further attention to its languorous gameplay, Tweety & The Magic Gems does absolutely nothing to impress with its presentation.

Completely substandard in nearly every aspect.

Despite the presence of a few familiar Disney cartoon characters, the game is so devoid of quality that no one could possibly enjoy it.

Its one redeeming feature is that five percent of the game's proceeds will be donated to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. But you may as well cut out the middleman and just give all $20 to charity.

This cel-shaded third-person shooter is completely substandard in nearly every aspect and therefore is impossible to recommend, even to the young audience that the game is targeted toward.

Sometimes the game can lock your system up entirely. It's really a shame that Rebels: Prison Escape is so buggy. When it's working, it isn't half bad, but you should never have to say "when it's working" about a game you've paid good money for.