The 10 Worst Ubisoft Games Of The Last Decade (According To Metacritic)

Game developer Ubisoft has created some major hit games in the last decade, but these are their biggest misses of the 2010s, according to Metacritic.

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With the 2010’s firmly behind us, it’s not too late to take a look at the fantastic decade that just finished. Ubisoft has played a huge part in the past few years of gaming, with Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry, and the various Tom Clancy franchises consistently highly rated and very popular.

For all the successes that the publisher has experienced in the past 10 years, however, Ubisoft has experienced some duds. While we will only list the score for the platform with the lowest Metacritic rating here, keep in mind that most games that perform poorly on one console will suffer on others as well.

10 MotionSports: Adrenaline – Xbox 360 (41)

In the middle of the Kinect craze, Ubisoft attempted to capitalize on the fad Xbox 360 accessory. One of their many attempts was the extreme sports title MotionSports: Adrenaline.

While the game gave players the ability to participate in kayaking, skydiving, and wingsuit flying, along with several other intense athletic experiences, reviewers thought the game fell flat. The activities failed to simulate any of extreme sports in a way that felt very entertaining, especially with the unreliable responsiveness of the Kinect.

9 MotionSports – Xbox 360 (40)

A launch game for the Kinect, MotionSports was a disappointment. A poor man’s version of Wii Sports, the game featured sports such as American football, skiing, and boxing.

While it offered several sports that were not offered by the simultaneously released Kinect Sports, MotionSports barely mustered half of the Metacritic score that its better selling rival did. On the bright side, fellow Kinect game DECA Sports Freedom, which followed a series of middling titles on the Wii and DS, could not even meet that pathetic benchmark.

8 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Fatal Conspiracy – PS3 (39)

Before the meteoric rise and fall of Telltale as the leader in episodic video game storytelling, the developer had not released many quality games. One of their blunders was the licensed CSI games.

After Telltale’s success with The Walking Dead, the company was able to find its rhythm and produced several high quality games before its eventual demise and rebirth. Unfortunately, the CSI games were designed for little more than to grab money from fans of the popular show.

7 Pure Futbol – Xbox 360 (38)

Pure Futbol is an arcade version of the most popular sport in the world. Unfortunately, as you probably guessed by its inclusion on this list, it is not a very good one. The soccer game was riddled with glitches, mediocre graphics, and unimpressive gameplay.

While the title did manage to draw many comparisons from reviewers to FIFA Street and Super Mario Strikers, none of these parallels were made for the merits of the game. Instead, these other titles were simply supplied to readers as better options for anyone who enjoys football.

6 NCIS – Xbox 360 (35)

As one of the longest-running television shows in history, it is no surprise that video game publishers would have sought to produce games based upon the hit show during its most popular years on the small screen. Unfortunately, this effort, if it can be truthfully called one, was not worth even the most dedicated of fans picking up.

NCIS is little more than an unimaginative point and click “adventure” using the popular property’s name to sell units. Critics criticized the lack of content, the almost non-existent gameplay, and shallow story.

5 The Expendables 2 Videogame – Xbox 360 (32)

Video games that are meant to coincide with the release of a major movie release are very rarely good. They also are usually not this bad.

The Expendables 2 game doesn’t try to do too much; there is a lot of shooting and explosions, just like you would expect from a game tie-in for a movie starring yesterday’s biggest action stars. Unfortunately, the only way this will hold anyone’s interest is with the four-player cooperative mode, and even that is questionable. This game competes for a new low among movie video games, even though the genre is known for its dubious attempts at video games.

4 Fighters Uncaged – Xbox 360 (32)

The Xbox 360 Kinect, despite its financial success, struggled with churning out quality games. Fighters Uncaged was one of the games that contributed to this problem. While most games struggled with unresponsive controls from the motion sensor, this game regularly failed to register properly to the point that it was considered borderline unplayable by many reviewers.

The Kinect’s stardom eventually flamed out, but, with bombs like this one early in its life, it is surprising that it was a popular platform for so long. While not every game needs to be a hit, titles like this made it more difficult for gamers to see the potential of the Kinect.

3 ESPN Sports Connection – Wii U (31)

After the myriad of mediocre sports games meant to capitalize on the success and popularity of Wii Sports, Ubisoft attempted to continue the genre’s success on the Wii U platform by using the ESPN license.

Like many of Ubisoft’s sports titles, ESPN Sports Connection was a critical failure. None of the sports were unique to the game, and many of them were featured in the formative Wii Sports itself. The game ultimately shipped with poor visuals and boring gameplay. The lack of modes limited the ability of players to enjoy one of the few Wii U launch games.

2 Fighter Within – Xbox One (23)

As a launch title for the Xbox One, which shipped with an improved Kinect and a lack of titles that used it in a meaningful way, Fighter Within had the potential to stand out from the crowd. By the sorry state that the game arrived in, it was clear that quality, in any sense of the word, was not the goal of the game.

Undoubtedly one of the worst titles to be available for the current generation Xbox on day one, Fighter Within received some of the worst scores of any game in recent memory. With the Kinect’s still reliable reading of player movements, Fighter Within was not even impressive as a tech demo.

1 Self-Defense Training Camp – Xbox 360 (21)

As impressively bad Fighter Within managed to be, Self-Defense Training Camp was somehow worse. In addition to poor graphics and awkward character movements, the game does not have the potential to teach you very much. Without being able to provide any kind of physical feedback or resistance that real self-defense training would hopefully give you, the game has no meaningful reason to exist.

As one of the worst games ever made, this is not even worth discovering the pitiful depths this title falls to. Avoiding this title, just like you hopefully avoid situations that would need self-defense, is the best policy.

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