Top 10 Worst Licensed Video Games

The Top Ten
1 Superman 64

whoever was the head of this game must've pulled far to many dangerous jokes n pranks as a kid, whoever they were either fulfill your dreams & duties as a game developer or continue playing & polling jackass level pranks which are insensitive, a different game studio would've made this game ideal enough for the time, Superman as any other superhero deserves to have their game be original. My Adventures with Superman gave Superman his identity & purpose back, a lengthy original My Adventures with Superman game would suit audiences & fans alike currently, My Adventures with Superman game would have to have every season implemented into the game including having special side quests for every character, the game would have to have 6.6 million different rewards with New Game Plus

Now we're getting into the really famous- the worst of the worst. Superman 64 is infamous for just about everything you're looking for in a bad game: terrible controls, horrible level design, incompetent programming, and way, way, WAY too many moments of flying through rings.

But, and we're sure this consoles the developer, it was a popular seller, and it's even won awards! Like EGM's "Top 20 Worst Games of All Time", Filter's "Top Ten Worst Games of the �90s", Nintendo Power's "Worst Game on a Nintendo System", and the worst game of 1999! We're sure they're proud.

You would be crazy to say that this game is better than mario 64 this game is one of the worst games ever and it came out in 1999, 3 years after mario 64 all you do is fly through rings or do something useless and the amount of glitches is crazy and all the character models look the same so overall everything is bad about this game this should be number 1

I'm the flying glitch the fighting is akward the challenges are the same the story is bland the game is like 1 big rescue mission and when you play it you just want to end I mean superman is a bit of a bad ass but this just mocks him completely I'm comic geek and a gamer and I now this game sucks!

2 E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial

You knew this one was coming.E.T. was only the second game based on a movie and boy, did it ever set the tone for the rest of this list.

E.T. is arguably not just one of the worst licensed games, but one of the worst games of all time, period. It was rushed out in six weeks to make money off of the movie's success and Atari's brand loyalty. This strategy seemed to work at first, with a high volume of sales for Christmas.

Until people started returning it. In the end, the game managed to sell so badly it helped trigger Atari's crash and burn, losing them over $500 million. Even though the cartridges were crushed, buried, and covered with cement, in an area devoid of all life, this hasn't stopped the game from spreading like a virus and eradicating all signs of quality from nearby towns. The developer, meanwhile, remains at large.

You have to be a truly terrible developer to screw up a game based on the most popular movie of the year.

Sure Superman 64 was bad, but E.T. was a big mistake of a game.

3 The Walking Dead The Walking Dead is an American horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. Andrew Lincoln plays the show's lead character, sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes, who awakens from a coma discovering a world overrun by zombies, commonly referred to as "walkers" . Grimes reunites with his family and becomes the leader of a group he forms with other survivors. Together they struggle to survive and adapt in a post-apocalyptic world filled with walkers and opposing groups of survivors, who are often more dangerous than the walkers themselves. ...read more.

Which one? The Telltale game or Survival Instinct? Cause I heard of them was good rather then bad...

The emotions! Their horrible! Still great game.

4 Iron Man 2
5 Wikipedia Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 3
6 Frozen: Olaf's Quest

Wait, wait, wait. This is an actual game?

, my sister got this for Christmas.

7 Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis

First Superman 64 and now this crazy joke? Can anybody say Rainbow Of Doom!

Can't say the Rainbow Of Doom, because LJN didn't create/publish this or Superman 64 - Gehenna

8 Alien: Isolation

Why is this on here?!?! This is an extraordinarily amazing game set between Alien and Aliens! Whoever put this on here must really hate Ridley Scott's work!

9 SpongeBob Heropants

This game is a rushed ps2 game that was only in development for a few days. Blame Activision

10 Star Wars: Masters of Teras Kasi

"Teras Kasi" (Lucasian for "cash in on this trend NOW! ") basically features a bunch of beloved Star Wars characters, and a whole lot of annoying second stringers, beating the ever-loving crap out of each other in a stiff, badly designed manner. It also led to confusing questions like what a Jedi would need with hand-to-hand combat, since he has a sword that leaps into his hand, the ability to throw things around with his mind, and essentially no need to use his fist to beat somebody up whatsoever.

Even the most rabid Star Wars fan has chucked this one into a deep hole and forgotten about it�and that's where it belongs.

The Contenders
11 Rambo: The Video Game

RAMBO is a awesome series I'm the rambo movies the first blood movies all great and selvester stolyone well is awesome any way SO WHY ON GODS GREEN EARTH would they make this a point gaining first person shooter that features all the movies besides 4 and the other one it should have been a 3rd person stelth shooter game that evould around strategy not this this is Call of Duty far cry 3 and bulletstorm all combined like I'm I the only one that thinks so or what

12 GoldenEye 007

What masochists thought that this was even bad ridiculous

13 WWE Crush Hour

Wrestling games have a long and storied history in video gaming, and for some reason, people want to try and use that to make games that don't involve wrestling. Why, we have no idea. But "Crush Hour" sums up why it's a bad idea.

Basically, the top WWE wrestlers run around in cars and try to destroy each other. In other words, it's "Twisted Metal" with WWE decals. We're still not sure why THQ put this one out, but contractual obligation sounds like a good theory.

Worst WWE and wrestling game I've ever seen

14 Fight Club

Putting out a fighting game about Fight Club is a shining symbol of missing the point completely, which is just the start of this fail-laden game.

That the game is broken goes without saying, but there's also the fact that for some reason, the game features Fred Durst. We have no idea why. Fred Durst is the frontman of Limp Bizkit as well as a director of movies (but not Fight Club). In fact, he had nothing to do with the movie or the book. We're assuming he was somehow involved in the production of the game, or they had the rights to his image and decided to use it, or maybe they're just like the rest of us and want to beat the crap out of Fred Durst.

Unfortunately, they surrender a golden opportunity; Fred Durst can fight back and actually win, which further proves that video games are fantasies. In real life, we're pretty sure Adam Lambert could take Fred Durst.

HOW COULD YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES EVER MADE! ITS LIKE RESEVOIR DOGS ALL OVER AGAIN!

It was not that bad (that's a lie)

15 Spider Man (2002)

I loved this game on Xbox it was fun and I'm not lying but and there is a but this game is little anyoning with the training and the narrator he sucked but not a bad game

I love this game =(

16 Clash of the Titans
17 Trespasser

This would have been a great and revolutionary for it's arm controls. Only one problem, the arm controls barely work.

And who decided to have Anna's life bar on her breasts? Serously, that's just going a tad too far.

18 Ghostbusters (Atari)

The main problem with the Atari game of Ghostbusters is how boring it is. There's nothing too broken about the gameplay, aside from a few minor glitches, but it's about as repetitive as it gets before we get into color matching and typing "games". Catch the ghost, go somewhere else, catch more ghosts, go somewhere else, climb to the top of a building, and so on.

Even for Atari, this is a little dull. Sure, they couldn't fit the humor in there, but not even some text, guys? No one-liners? Not even differentiating the Ghostbusters from each other?

At least the new Ghostbusters video game is pretty good.

19 Tenkai Knights: Brave Battle
20 Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde

Given that Nintendo the video game company is itself a 19th-century licensed property whose old business was in trading cards, the Angry Video Game Nerd's least favourite NES game is a marriage of 19th-century licensed properties gone horribly ludicrously unbelievably wrong.

And you thought the BOOK version of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde was a strange case...

Probably the worst video game based on a 19th-century licensed property...

21 Dirty Dancing

Yes, they made a game out of Dirty Dancing. Or, rather they "made" a "game" "out of" "Dirty Dancing", as the game itself has basically nothing to do with the movie, or the concept of the movie, or even dancing.

It's essentially a collection of minigames set to music that is almost, but not quite, the music from the original movie, since that would be far, far too expensive for this shameless cash-in released decades after the movie. But you can play Bejeweled, with a Dirty Dancing theme! Thanks!

22 Disney's Aladdin
23 Winx Club (Gba)

This game is basically Dragon Ball Z: Legacy of Goku 1 but instead of being based on DBZ, it's based on the Winx Club

24 White Men Can't Jump

We'll give the developer this much: White Men Can't Jump is indeed a hit film and it lends itself to a video game.

But the game itself is a mess and we've really got to wonder what it's doing on the Jaguar, of all platforms. Seriously? The Jaguar? What, did the 3DO and the Wonderswan turn you down?

Oh my god don't even get me started with this game it mocks the movie like seriously

25 Rocko's Modern Life: Spunky's Dangerous Day

(Comparing this to most of the Ren & Stimpy games at the time, not counting Fire Dogs) So...a rather strongly debatably best-of-all-time-quality Nicktoon equals an ungodly terrible game, whereas an overrated dung heap like R&S equals a not-quite-AS-ungodly terrible game? MAKES A WHOLE LOTTA SENSE

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