Dec 20, 2006 8:33 PM

Games You Hate To Love

Games Radar has a fun feature up that asks seven editors from the Future family of publications (which includes PSM and Official Xbox Magazine) which bad games they love: So yeah. So what? Every jaded critic from here to Vice City might have torn it to pieces, but Beat Down still managed to be crazy […]

Games Radar has a fun feature up that asks seven editors from the Future family of publications (which includes PSM and Official Xbox Magazine) which bad games they love:

So yeah. So what? Every jaded critic from here to Vice City might have torn it to pieces, but Beat Down
still managed to be crazy awesome. Let the haters and their rarefied palates whine about its "repetitive action," because here's a revelation: if you don't like repetitive action, you probably don't like brawlers as a genre. But if you want the raw, thudding sensation of crushing a man's face and spirit with your bare hands, then Beat Down is where you want to be.

We all have 'em. I have several, and I keep adding to the list. Probably the most recent was Red Steel Rule of Rose. For some people, it's probably Rhapsody. For ninety-odd percent of the world it's apparently Dead Rising.

And yourselves? What bad games do you feel absolutely embarrassed to enjoy?

(I had to change my original comment. I didn't love Red Steel, but I really liked playing Rule of Rose. All the way through the end.)

Top 7 Games We Wish We Didn't Love [Games Radar]

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Chris Kohler started writing for WIRED in 2002, and founded WIRED.com's Game|Life channel in 2005. He is the author of the books Power-Up and Retro Gaming Hacks, and co-hosts the Stitcher Award-winning podcast Good Job, Brain! ... Read More

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