Features - Biggest video game disappointments of 2009

[Subterranean]

All the usual suspects, ghostbusters and flashpoint are my definites.

[aidanjt]

Pretty much all of 2009 was a long list of abysmal failures. Thanks to the lets-do-a-xbox360-game-and-slap-in-some-win32-code-and-kick-it-out-the-door mentality.

[Grey M@a]

I actually liked Ghostbusters on the 360, good bit of nostalgia there Yes it's short but it has replay in it

Borderlands however seems to work fine on the consoles but the PC version is bugged to hell :/

MW2 was alright for the first month then it was just the same old from MW1 all over with a few new weapons and upgrades etc.

Brutal Legend would have to be one of my let downs of the year. Great game when you are roaming about and doing the missions and storyline but it's the RTS element that spoils it. Don't know why it is in there though, love my RTS games but it felt well out of place in Brutal Legend.

[iamipodman]

GT5 slipping and the GT5 demo

Perfect Dark slipping to Q1.

definatley agree with this

[Steven W]

I actually liked Ghostbusters on the 360, good bit of nostalgia there Yes it's short but it has replay in it

Borderlands however seems to work fine on the consoles but the PC version is bugged to hell :/

MW2 was alright for the first month then it was just the same old from MW1 all over with a few new weapons and upgrades etc.

Brutal Legend would have to be one of my let downs of the year. Great game when you are roaming about and doing the missions and storyline but it's the RTS element that spoils it. Don't know why it is in there though, love my RTS games but it felt well out of place in Brutal Legend.

Never played that, it got quite a few decent reviews as well.

[Benjo321]

I've not played many games I was disappointed with this year. The obvious answer would be Modern Warfare 2, but the multiplayer and spec ops modes more than make up for the weak single player campaign. The same goes for Killzone 2 - some great multiplayer action, but the single player was atrocious.

I'd personally give the gong to Forza 3. I was really looking forward to this game but it just felt very lacking in something. Sure the graphics and presentation are spot on, but it just felt too similar to the last iteration and the season mode just drags on and on.

[crossy]

I'd personally give the gong to Forza 3. I was really looking forward to this game but it just felt very lacking in something. Sure the graphics and presentation are spot on, but it just felt too similar to the last iteration and the season mode just drags on and on.

Wow, just proves the cliche about one man's (/persons?) meat being another's poison - I thought F3 was pretty much superior in most aspects to the earlier version - better locations, easier to get into etc. Heck, even my youngest daughter (eight yr's old, but a car nut) can pick up the controller, put on all the assists and have a reasonable blast around the track in a Fiesta. She definitely couldn't do that in the older version.

Also pleased to hear it's not just me that thinks that MW2's single player campaign ain't that good. I notice a (worrying?) trend that some games are now just using the single player campaign effectively as merely a warm up to the multiplayer one. I've got my fingers crossed that this isn't the case with Crackdown2.

[Fowlet]

I'm not sure if it was this year, but it's a big enough disappointment: Saint's Row 2. The PC port was so badly done.

[Perfectionist]

Modern Warfare 2 (short singleplayer and no dedicated servers for multiplayer) and Left 4 Dead 2 (it's fun, but it wasn't honest to market it as a sequel, it's an expansion pack. And I don't mind the other new characters, but they replaced Zoey with an annoyingly-voiced chav slag. gf does not identify with any of the characters so doesn't find it half as interesting either...)