Your top 5 games that *DIDN'T* live up to the hype in 2007?

[Yoshimax]

The thing is go look at the inverse thread and those same games are probably cropping up a lot more in there than in here.

Both threads should've been limited to one game - best & worst - that'd have made things much more interesting

[Kotatsu Neko]

1 - Heavenly Sword (very pretty pre-rendered cut scenes can't make up for the button mashing gameplay)

2 - Uncharted (just an average Gears of War clone at heart with nowhere near enough platforming and adventuring)

3 - SEGA Rally (poor frame rate, mediocre visuals, dreadful music, and none of that SEGA Rally feel)

4 - Halo 3 (surprise surprise, it really was just Halo 2 again and with similar dated visuals)

5 - Crysis (this isn't a bad game at all, it's actually pretty good, but it in no way justifies the enormous hardware costs involved to run it. And Assassin's Creed has better visuals anyway...)

[C']

Bioshock (the last third): I actually thought this game was amazing as I played through it. Great atmosphere, presentation and gameplay. Then the twist hit and the game just seemed to go on and on and felt like a chore (especially the hacking). As soon as I start wishing for a game to end, you know it’s not a good sign. Prior to this, it is a good game but it’s faults clearly prevent it from living up to the hype that occurred prior to release.

Halo 3: I so wanted to like this. I thought the campaign in Halo: Combat Evolved was absolutely staggering but despite multiple attempts to get into Halo 2, I always found it average at best. I bought into the reports that Bungie were going to deliver a worthy single-player campaign this time but after 1 level I was already quite bored and never bothered to go back to it. Just totally failed to engross me like The Orange Box did. I know a lot of people rate the multiplayer but not being a fan of this aspect I’ve only given it a few games. Was kind of fun but hardly the 10/10 EDGE made it out to be.

Heavenly Sword: Had worries about this from the start really, but Sony kept hyping it up as The Second Coming. Not even as good as Ninja Gaiden let alone the genre-master Devil May Cry 3. Luckily Capcom will soon be on hand to show us how it is done.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008: Again not a bad game by any stretch of the imagination (still the best videogame representation of football) but after all the promises of a next-gen PES/WE built from the ground up, what we got was massively disappointing.

Tekken 5: Dark Ressurrection Online: The actual game is the solid Tekken that I enjoy but the online mode is awful. Missed opportunity.

[bankies]

In no order

Bioshock - lost interest after a couple of hours
Lost Planet - took it back the next day
Excitetruck - should have made Excitebike 64 for the Wii
Resistance - looked Ok but a poor FPS
Burnout Dominator - only version of Burnout I have not liked

Other contenders
Jericho, Heavenly Sword