So, this generation has had a pretty good run - we've had some cracking titles over the last 7 years or so. But, perhaps more interesting than the highlights of this gem’s interactive entertainment is the dark nadir of games best left forgotten. Join me, as we venture into the gloomiest depths to uncover... the worst Xbox 360 game severs. Now, for the purpose of this video, we'll be talking about full-price, boxed releases only - and we're basing critical reception on the aggregate review scores of Meteoritic. Kicking off our shameful selection, and with the dubious virtue of being the least-worst of our selection, Shellshock 2: Blood Trails scored an impressively low thirty percent, putting it at number ten on our list. Unsurprising, given that it's a threadbare first-person shooter with last-gen graphics, clunky mechanics and a rather comical sprint animation. The concept is an interesting twist on the already gruesome arena of the Vietnam war- and injection of shady medical ethics which could have been used to great effect, but simply fall flat through poor exposition and tired mechanics. Next up, at number nine it's lackluster off-road racer Score International Baja 1000, taking the dubious honor of being the worst racing game available for the Xbox, by virtue obits Meteoritic score of just 29 percent. Despite its unimpressive graphics, the game doesn't seem much worse than any other run-of-the-millrace - but after a couple of laps the cracks start to show. Handling is comically bad, with your steering input taken as an idle suggestion rather than anything important to react upon in a responsive manner. There's also a crippling lack of tracks - you'll start to rue the repetition, as the nondescript circuits drive you round the bend. At number 8, Jumper: Griffin's story escapes the label of 'worst movie tie-in ever' by a hair, with a less-than-enviable Meteoritic score of 29.Punctuated by banal comic-book style cuts cense and presented as a sub-par brawler, the repetitive action is differentiated only by the teleport mechanic, a defining feature of the film that does nothing but reduce the game into button bashing tedium. Each of the four colored face buttons corresponds to a different attack direction, so even basic movement is taken out of the equation as you mindlessly mash your way to victory. Later enemies prove marginally more challenging, but by this point you'll only wish for the ability to teleport a better game into your console. At number seven on our list is Truth or Lies, scoring a paltry 28 percent. A microphone-driven party game that styles itself on a polygraph machine - a lie detector, in which you answer a sequence of questions intended to provoke, embarrass or reveal your inner secrets. Were it to function with any degree of accuracy, it would be naught more than a novelty, and not much of a game - but the fact that the soothsaying ability of the Xbox is limited, to say the least, rather spoils this game's already restricted potential. Upon uttering words into the microphone, the black box within whirrs and chugs away for a moment or two, before proclaiming the speaker's veracity: but the thing is, it simply doesn't work. Should you avoid this game? True! At number 6, Rebellion's second entry to our list - Rogue Warrior - has a layer more polish than their other offering - but falls even further from grace, with a rating of just28 percent: earning it the hotly contested title of 'worst FPS this generation'. The protagonist is Navy Seal Richard Marciano, and is portrayed as a reckless, foul-mouthed operative - with voice acting provided by none other than Mickey Rourke.Rourke provides an impressive performance - your character giving an x-rated play-by-playoff the trite events that unfold: this narration sadly wasted on the North
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