GamingExcellence - Functioning guitar brings nothing to the table; poorly-designed interface; half the songs are locked away until you play the campaign mode; dull campaign mode.
PSX Extreme: We believe in celebrating the year's quality rather than laughing at the stinkers. And yet, we also understand the failures and near-misses and "what if...?" titles are often quite popular topics of discussion and so, as a prelude to our GotY extravaganza, we give you a few PSXE Dubious Distinction Awards.
2010 was the year we made contact with a lot of half-assed videogames. While there was much for gamers to celebrate over the past 12 months — and we here at Game|Life will be getting to that later — gamemakers also delivered an inordinate number of flops.
The following list isn't of the worst games of the year (such a list would be made up of Wii shovelware and movie games), but of the most disappointing titles, the ones that had great promise but fell way short.
Game Revolution: "There is a tactic that women of average or slightly above average aesthetics employ in order to make themselves appear more desirable to the opposite (or sometimes same) sex. It's a method known as "the fat, ugly chick friend". Essentially, the average girl stands next to their unattractive friend and become more alluring by relative context. Of course, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But that's not the point here. The point is that Power Gig does for Rock Band 3 what thicker women with cat sweaters have been doing for their just slightly prettier friends for decades."
