UGO writes: "In recent years, gamers have become a bit more savvy when it comes to buying in to branded crap. Sure, bad movie franchise games normally sell well, but anyone who knows anything about gaming knows to stay away from them. The same thing happened with 50 Cent: Bulletproof a couple years ago. Despite featuring the all-star hip-hop artist, the game was absolute crud, and was panned by just about everyone under the sun. So Sierra's back to make another one!
Clearly Sierra knew they didn't have a gem with the last title, so for this time around they're going down a different path. Instead of an intense, story-based squad combat game, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand is about as action-packed as they get. It looks more like an arcade game, with dollar amounts and special effects popping up on the screen every two seconds. Fans of The Club will instantly find themselves at home with 50 Cent's aesthetic and ridiculous story (which is about as important as the riveting plot of Moon Patrol). Basically 50 Cent goes to war with half the Middle East when they steal his diamond skull, which was supposed to be payment for a concert. Uh, yeah, next!"
Most licensed games tend to be below average, but every now and then, developers produce a game based on an existing license that is actually good.
EA back in the early PS2/Xbox/GC-era actually put out some pretty good licensed games, notably 007 Nightfire , 007 Everything or Nothing and some of their Lord of The Rings games.
I enjoyed "The Great Escape" game on the PS2. Also "The Thing" on PS2 wasnt to bad. Unfortunately it was to hard at the time when I was younger.
6th gen in general was a really good gen for licensed games, so many surprising gems from that time
Peter Jackson's King Kong.
Avatar: The game
X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
And love it or hate it, Enter The Matrix really scratched the itch for Matrix games as well.
COGconnected: Some sequels come as a result of the artists behind it truly believing an IP deserves a second chance, could be improved with just a few small tweaks, or is indeed good enough to warrant a sequel. These ones do not.
Loads of people asked for a sequel to Knack, including myself.
The first game was good fun, clearly rushed for launch, but a good launch title for PS4.
The great dunk spoke, and knack 2 was goty before it even dropped. Spaghetti. Meatballs. Puerto Rico.
Knack 2 and Kane and Lynch 2 were so good
Cool article though aha mostly all true.
Still waiting for Kanye and Lynch 3 to solve that insane cliffhanger ending
I will always want more Naughty Bear. Those games are like bad SyFy movies, just so awful but so fun.
Knack 1-2 was Fantastic...,.... hope Knack 3 being developed.
Can't wait for Ratchet and clank 2
Ps4
Here are the seven Xbox 360 games that still need to be backwards compatible with the Xbox One, including one last Call of Duty title and a hip hop artist that needs to find his skull.
GRAW2 and Ninja Gaiden 2 and I’ll be set. I’m a little bitter though you can’t buy Splinter Cell Blacklist digitally, I certainly would have bought a new copy to play, I don’t have my disc anymore and I’ll never own another game on disc. Same thing happened with Red River, not sure why it happens but it is disappointing.
Would love Dishonored 1 and the Batman Arkham games on BC, the remastered versions of those games is hot garbage.
Do people actually play 360 games on the xb1 or do they kinda toy around for a while to check out the improvements? Im curious because i cant stand last gen games
I bought the Xbox one X because of the backwards compatibility. Last gen games look amazing, Gears, Red dead look incredible in 4K. Still some of the best games were on last gen.
Infinite Undiscovery is the only one I'm waiting on, I replayed Blue Dragon when it hit BC.
Kudos for UT3
lol @PS3 giving them the most profit. I got my copy of UT3 but sadly enough most of my friends weren't interested was a pretty good game for about a week or two. I would definitely recommend it any X360 owners looking for shooters
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