10 WORST AAA Games of All Time

I feel like this was inspired by Modern Warfare 3…

I grew up playing Driv3r. It was the first “open world” driving game I played. I have such fond memories of it because I definitely didn’t know any better.

Can't add Skull & Bones to the list; It's a AAAA game.

I worked on A.P.B. and, OH BOY, it was doomed from inception. Reason was, the idea wasn't terrible, but the execution was guesswork. The tech of it was extremely confused, all the server side controlled functions were deeply confused, and worst of all, it never had a feasible monetisation strategy. Died pretty much on launch and the studio closed immediately after. A sad, but deeply educational moment in my career.

Funny part of the "games as a service" push is like 90% of them seem to end up bad because of how developers just don't enjoy making them. Bioware with Anthem, Arkane with Redfall, Platinum with Babylon's Fall, and I am sure there are plenty more that devs never spoke up about. Half-hearted games with huge budgets and massive teams are usually worse than cheap games made by 3 dudes in a basement because those 3 dude are actually passionate about their project.

I remember playing Deathly Hallows 1 and 2. In Part 1, you could run through levels without stopping. In Part 2, you could finish the game almost as fast as watching the film.

We need a "The worst AAAA games"

MOH: Warfighter. There were some rough edges but the idea of having a comrade with a mic being your wingman in combat was a good one. It could have led to friends being made and friends playing together for each other. That being the best hope for online gaming.

Im genuinely surprised Anthem wasn't mentioned. But what else can be said about it that hasn't been told.

I used to be OBSESSED with Driv3r as a kid, I would spend hours driving around. Never played any of the missions, just used to drive around the whole time!

Medal of Honor Warfighter’s multiplayer was great, my friends and I sunk a lot of hours into it, the shooting mechanics were pretty good too

I’m surprised that Brink is never brought up in failure videos. That game was so highly marketed and I swear almost a year after release they were being sold used at EB Games for $0.99.

I remember having decent amount of fun in Driv3r, but I was also a little kid that didn't know a great game from a bad one. I have real good memories with it haha

The reason the soundtrack for Alone in the Dark (2008) is so good is because it's composed by none other than Olivier Deriviere himself. He also did the scores for both A Plague Tale games, Remember Me, Vampyr, and more recently Dying Light 2.

I'm surprised Haze wasn't on this list. So sad what happened to Rare and the many gold standard games they came out with. I think (at that time) they modernized Timesplitters from Goldeneye and made a gem of a first person shooter. They are missed...

Honorable mention: MW3 2023

I will say with MoH Warfighter, I did admire the graphics of the cutscenes. They were really good for that time.

Redfall makes me so sad. Not really because it's a bad game--you see bad games all the time--but because it destroyed that Arkane studio. Even if they go back to making the types of games they're known for and do amazingly, like was said in the video, 70% of the staff who made those amazing games in the past left! So I don't see much hope for future Arkane games either. It's infuriating that corporate executives turned this incredibly talented, popular and profitable studio into a husk of its former self that probably won't recover just to chase some stupid live service pipe dream.

Despite sonic ‘06 being bad, I have extremely fond memories of this game as a child I loved every aspect of the game

I've gotta say, the intro to driv3r and the various ways of trying to say the name got me good, i had to rewatch it several times and it was just as funny each time, 👏 kudos 👏