Being a person who always does a lot of research before parting with hard earned cash for a game I can't say that I have ever been too
dissappointed when opening the box of a new game and powering the
game up for the first time.......
BUT
There have been a few games that
I anticipated with great expectation only to find out from a review
that it was an absolute stinker of a game and a few that I maybe
thought I would enjoy but no matter how good I knew the game was just
couldn't enjoy it.
So my greatest disappointments of my gaming
world over the last 20 years or so for me are as follows:
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| The Amstrad Box Art (lovely stuff!) |
For years the SNES
was crying out for a great footy game.
It had to wait years for ISS
to come out and blow everyone away, but before that came the news
that KICK OFF was coming to SNES in all its 16bit glory.
I read the
pages of Super Play Magazine and Nintendo Magazine System with deep
joy as I thought how great Kick Off would be on the SNES.......Months
went by as the magazines previewed the game constantly teasing me
with a few more screenshots.
Then came the review......it turned out
the game was a turkey!! My dreams of controlling Tottenham Hotspur on
my shiny new SNES were blown apart....it was back to Nintendo's very
own Super Soccer for me to get my footy thrills. No matter how
tempted I was to buy Kick Off it never happened and will be forever
disappointed.
This is
probably a controversial inclusion for a game that included
so much cutting edge technology such as the Super FX Chip.
All the
reviews were glowing with 90% scores and yet when I played it I was
particularly underwhelmed.
I just didn't get why everyone was raving
about this game. The only thing I did like was how your team mates
would radio into your cockpit with updates of what was going on.
But
unfortunately Starwing bit the dust early on for me and it was traded
in pretty quickly.
Looks like a
recurring theme for me here with all the SNES games that didn't live
up to their promise.
Again with this one it had glowing reports, all
the latest technology (the fabled Super FX Chip) and yet again, I
just didn't get it.
It reminded me of a badly made set of Lego
vehicles with poor handling and a really annoying surround on the screen
where the action took place, again this was consigned to the trade
pile pretty quickly!
When I was younger with no
responsibilities I played a lot of Championship Manager, days were
eaten up by taking my Nottingham Forest team through 12 seasons of
glory until all the "regen" players took over from the real world
players and I was left with a load of unknowns.
I felt that after
such over exposure to Championship Manager it was time to get my
management kicks elsewhere, hence why I went for Premier Manager.
It
had received good reviews and was seen as an alternative to Champ
Manager. The game looked impressive and I have to admit, initially it
was good to play a management sim other than Champ.
But the problem
was ..... it wasn't Champ Manager and I always compared it to Champ
Manager (which wasn't really fair). Eventually I had to concede that
it was a disappointing game compared to Champ (oh yeah, and the fact you
always had to start in the Conference didn't help!!)
So there I was with a shiny new PS3 for christmas!
Inside was one game......it was GT5. My last encounter of GT was on PS1 , the original GT and I loved it at the time, it was so novel to have a driving game that you could invest hours of time just tweaking and collecting and building.
Fast forward 5 reiterations later and you have the all singing all dancing version of GT!
The problem with it though, is that it's lost it's soul, it's almost too realistic and maybe there's too much on offer, too many things to do.
For that reason ..... I’m OUT! (GT5 was quickly traded for a lovely copy of Heavy Rain!)
Have
you got any disappointments that you would like to tell The Freezer about?
Consign them to the Freezer's deep freeze forever by letting us know and we will dispose of them carefully!
*Richard From The Disappointment Department Of Freezer Town*
