Top 5 Worst Rockstar Games

Posted on Friday, May 11 @ 13:00:00 Eastern by Daniel Bischoff

With Max Payne 3 hype reaching critical levels, it's time to look back and realize that... well, they can't all be winners. The little known ports will always be there to remind us that even the great minds behind Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption can falter. Here are the five worst Rockstar Games games:

5) Evel Knievel (Game Boy Color)

Yeah, an Evel Knievel game.... on Game Boy Color. Who knew there was so much to riding a motorcyle off a big jump? You've gotta tap a specific button, then you have to tap it harder, then you have to tap it faster. All the while you're being treated to hand-drawn crash scenes. Evel Knievel is forgotten for a reason: This game sucked.

4) Austin Powers: Welcome To My Underground Lair (Game Boy Color)

Rockstar released Welcome To My Underground Lair and Oh Behave! as a pair following the success of The Spy Who Shagged Me. The duo of Austin Powers Game Boy Color games were essentially operating systems inspired by the two Mike Myers characters. Underground Lair let players play a Pac-Man clone called "Mojo Maze" and... a Rock-Paper-Scissors clone. Needless to say, these were not groovy, baby, no.

Oh yeah, each title had Austin Powers inspired calculators too... so....

3) State of Emergency (Xbox)

I know many of you might saym "Hey, I had fun with State of Emergency! Why are you including this on a list of the worst Rockstar games?" To which I reply, "No, you're wrong. That game sucks."

State of Emergency played off of the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle, Washington and naturally earned the ire of politicians and parents, despite lacking the high-quality of Grand Theft Auto III. That's why you thought the game was cool. Because you were 11-years-old and you were probably thinking to yourself that you were going to be the founding member of a rap group called "F*** You." Jesus, you were such a snot-nosed punk.

In reality, State of Emergency was repetitive, difficult to control, repetitive, needlessly inciteful, repetitive, and violent. Did I mention that it was repetitive? Missions frequently repeated themselves; beating someone to death with a severed arm was only fun for the first hour. Rockstar smartly washed their hands of the franchise and moved on to bigger and better things.

Next up: the two worst games from Rockstar...

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Comments

cyberjim2000
Joined: Feb 2010

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 1:18 pm
Did you know that the GTA games and Red Dead Redemption are actually Scottish games? Rockstar North is headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Longo_2_guns
Joined: Jun 2003

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 1:23 pm
I liked Welcome to My Underground Lair. There were some fun minigames in there. Sorta. It was alright.

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 1:27 pm
I honestly didnt hear of half these games and the ones I do know, didnt know they were Rockstar games... guess its good PR to not mention them.

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LinksOcarina
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
So...where are the games Rockstar developed?

Cause all of those are just published by Rockstar.

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 3:19 pm
How about Manhunt 2? Talk about pedaling backwards.

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 3:20 pm
backpedaling. The term is backpedaling.

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 3:22 pm
Oh GOD, and it's not even the right term!

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Kakulukia
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 3:34 pm
I don't get the hate for Manhunt 2. I thought it was even better than the first. Sure, the graphics were fugly and it was censored to hell, but it played better than Manhunt 1. And that one got critical success.

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tinymhg
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
Senior moment?

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stefstimpy
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: May 12th, 2012 at 4:44 am
Manhunt was an incredible game. The story and gameplay were excellent. One of my PS2 favourites. I really liked the way the use of the headset was incorporated into the gameplay too. Manhunt 2, even the uncensored version (which I imported for the Wii) was terrible.

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Ivory_Soul
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 3:28 pm
I played State of Emergency to death as a kid. The second one really sucked.

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Kakulukia
Joined: Nov 2005

Posted: May 11th, 2012 at 3:32 pm
State of Emergency 2 was SOOO much worse than the first one.

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TheJx4
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: May 12th, 2012 at 7:55 pm
I now have to try this game.

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cheesegod99
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: May 13th, 2012 at 10:10 pm
I said it in an original mailbag back in 2001, and I'll say it again now: Adding extra hydrogen to water makes it acidic, not viscous.

Sorry, I'm a bit anal about my science.

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