GP: If sea combat is your thing, Steel Diver's submarine adventure could be the perfect 3DS launch game to sink your teeth into.
While the Mario-loving masses probably weren't asking for a submarine combat game on launch day, Steel Diver makes a pretty good case for its place in the 3DS line-up. Using the stylus to control depth, speed and pitch, players navigate subs through side-scrolling seascapes, evading rocky outcroppings, trading torpedoes with enemies, and plugging holes by tapping spurting leaks with the stylus. While these missions don't sport the in-your-face 3D of other games, they do use the tech effectively; schools of fish swim on a separate plane from the action, environments display realistic foregrounds and backgrounds, and subtler depth variations give you a real sense of being submerged in the deep blue.
Knack has been in the PlayStation 4, and while it isn’t a terrible game, it isn’t a game that would have urged anyone to purchase the brand new system when it arrived.
Super Mario Land on #1 and not even a mention of Ryse while Knack is on #4.
Sometimes...opinions are just not right.
Some really mediocre launch games were Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (Mega Drive), Beauty and the Beast (CD-I), Virtua Fighter on the Saturn that was such a bad port that they released a VF Remix,Street Fighter: The Movie (Playstation), Godzilla Generations (Dreamcast) and TransWorld Surf (Xbox)
Listing games like Perfect Dark Zero and mentioned Super Mario Land however...come on.
By that logic you also enjoyed Ryse more than Perfect Dark: Zero or Super Mario Land.
In your Article Introduction you write "This got me to thinking; What games were terrible launch titles that companies should just hang their heads in shame for? These are five of those titles:"
You should have mentioned it right there that this is just a list of 5 games you did not enjoy as much as others (like Ryse..lol)
Describing it as a list of the worst console launch games without listing even ONE of the really bad launch games on consoles is ...just not right.
Perfect dark zero was a fantastic launch game tho, you really missed a lot of terrible games that should have been on there
Pilot wings 64 for one
x squad on ps2 wasn't very good
Everything on 3do, jaguar and sega cd were terrible as well
RYSE was a great launch title and Perfect Dark was not a bad game.
I agree on PDZ, beats most stealth games these days. 32 player online plus 16 bots was cool too.
I miss when games had bots :(
Perfect Dark Zero on Xbox 360 had bots though so I actually had some fun playing it on the different maps.
I think it only seems bad in comparison to the N64 game and expectations were so high.
Super Mario Land is actually a pretty decent quality game with it's own play style....it's different in the way that Mario Bros. 2 for NES was different.
That's really the thing grinding against PDZ the worst too. I can totally understand old fans being frustrated with it not living up to the legend but those types of expectations are bound to not be met when putting it up so high with one of the most ambitious console shooters ever conceived.
It showcased some poor design choices but I still had a blast with everything in online multiplayer (+ cheap DLC maps too).
Ryse was a good game for a launch titel. Multiplayer was really fun and SP was solid.
Perfect Dark Zero has one of the best Campaign Co-op Modes in the history of Campaign Co-op Games.
Especially when next-gen games today don't even offer Campaign Co-op.
One of the authors reasons for listing the game is because it's not a good as Halo 2 and Halo:CE.
-"Mistake number two wasn’t Rare’s fault, but the first-person genre had changed a bit. Halo was the wave of the future, and it seemed that Master Chief had tea-bagged Joanna Dark before she even got out of the gate."
For its' time perfect dark zero was one of the best looking launch titles. The mp was also well regarded, the single player levels changed depending on difficulty and objectives could be completed in several different ways. If not being as good as Halo 2/CE makes a game terrible; I might as well throw out most of the fps games I own lol.
I played that game so much at launch, loved it. It also introduced my wife to first person shooters and turned her into a gamer too.
No. Just no.
Most of the Sega CD launch titles were garbage. Sewer Shark in particular was the worst.
I felt bad for any kid that got CyberMorph with the Atari Jaguar too!
As far as bad launch titles go... this list is soft.
Really poor article. Trying desperately to get controversy clicks with it's obviously baiting #1 choice. There is nothing of worth here.
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