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Worst Use of a Great License

The games in this category are truly the worst of the best. They take beloved brands and transform them into be-loathed games. Even worse, they use your imagination against you. You see your favorite hero, athlete, or race car staring at you from the box cover, and can't help but picture the fun you could have in those boots, cleats, or wheels. But the following acts of alchemy turn heroes into fools, race cars into clunkers, and entire sports leagues into poorly run circuses. If this category had a mascot, it would be the angler fish: your favorite things dangling above the jaws of bad games. So read on with caution; the riches below are fool's gold.

Voting Results:

Worst Use of a Great License
Iron Man
32%
 
4,707
Beijing 2008 - The Official Video Game of the Olympic Games
26%
 
3,855
The Incredible Hulk
16%
 
2,365
Lost: Via Domus
21%
 
3,129
MLB Stickball
4%
 
609

Readers' Choice Winner

Iron Man

Iron Man GameSpot's Best Games of 2008 Readers' Choice Winner

Iron Man, one of Marvel's most durable Super Heroes, is blasting onto video game platforms and the big screen this spring. The epic, action-packed Marvel Studios production will be directed by John Favreau and stars Robert Downey Jr., Jeff Bridges, Terrance Howard and Gwyneth Paltrow. This third-person action game will immerse players in explosive militaristic combat from the film with loads of additional content created exclusively for the game.

Worst Use of a Great License
256 comments
GnomeGoneMad
GnomeGoneMad

I think most olympic spinoffs suck, so i vote hulk caus i'd like to see a destroy everything hulk game that is actually GOOD [aka. no major flaws] ps: Sega lol "Wheres your sonic now? Huh"

Wolf-5
Wolf-5

Yeah... Iron man and lost.

Rizer
Rizer

Hmmm...Lost or Iron Man....

calvinsora
calvinsora ranger

It's sad. Iron Man could have been a good game. Oh well, c'est la vie.

starduke
starduke

I am so glad I didn't buy the Iron Man game.

renato1988
renato1988

Yeh all of em suck specially IronMan

Clouse666
Clouse666

I am sorry but sega is no a great license anymore. but ubisoft what the F were you thinking

tonyhawksP8
tonyhawksP8

They wer all gonna be disasters except for Lost: Via Domus so that should have won the demerit not Ironman which everyone knew would be bad yet bought anyways.

adamrich81
adamrich81

agree with artic again. Wow, could be any of em.

The_Iron_Ace
The_Iron_Ace

Iron man was my movie of the year in 08...but I heard some awful things about the game...never did hear one GOOD thing xD

thesameer94
thesameer94

both the movie and song versions of iron man were good, but this is flat out crap

RavageGT
RavageGT

Disagree, Beijiing was a complete joke

SSBFan12
SSBFan12

I agree with this one too.

REgrl4life
REgrl4life

totally agree with this. i loved the movie, hated the game.

remixbaby44
remixbaby44

hulk is a great license: but the game sucked

roxn_104
roxn_104

hahaa.. IRONMAN again! ..sega needs to be banned xD damnit 3/5 are sega releases here

Topaz_MK
Topaz_MK

But the only people who actually play Valkyrie Chronicles are...Valkyrie Chronicles fans. I don't know anyone who plays those games without them being hardcore about that genre anyway.

MareInfinitus
MareInfinitus

SEGA still makes some good games; just look at Valkyria Chronicles.

Objio24
Objio24

SEGA was a great company before, this is a shame for sega

MilkmanDO
MilkmanDO

I reckon they rushed the development of it and they gave the license to the wrong guys. It was just like transformers the game.

DeadManRollin
DeadManRollin

I could at least play through a couple of missions of Iron Man, but the game Hulk was soooo horrible looking and it played sooo terribly that I wanted to throw the disk out of the window. A cousin of mine bought it, without checking any reviews, and I feel pity for him.

icym
icym

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marshalmathers2
marshalmathers2

" I AM IRON MAN " How did you know that I said that ? .... these people must be psychic !

datniccah187
datniccah187

I don't understand how someone could mess up Iron man. Like great license should have been an awesome game, but nope.

asyland
asyland

Since when is Lost a "Great License"?

THE_WHITE_MAGE
THE_WHITE_MAGE

I love how Iron Man is on every known platform, but the Wii label is shown when the worst awards are shown. But Gamespot is not biased...

marklovesbaseba
marklovesbaseba

where is madden?? they have nfl and they stink at making the game!

z827
z827

Wow.All three games up there have the label SEGA pasted proudly on the bottom right hand side.I bet their wanting to take the label off to escape shame :(

thug_angel123
thug_angel123

Hulk should be here..The previous one "incredible hulk" was a great game and even with similiar concepts they couldn't deliver that in the movie based one...Even the movie was a big dissapointment.. Iron man was bound to suck because it was purely movie based...

i8blind
i8blind

go ironman, go ironman

miquonranger03
miquonranger03

How could Iron Man be considered a great license? Movie games are ALWAYS horrible, and the movie wasn't too great either.

ValentineRain
ValentineRain

I don't really think of the Olympic games as a license, personally... And I also don't particularly care if they ever make a good one. Not my cup of tea.

Rhen_Var
Rhen_Var

Beijing 2008 is a license? My god, where do you get your facts?

yaddy1
yaddy1

Iron Man wasn't a good game but it wasn't hard either. I beat it in 3 days...

Zinmasterb
Zinmasterb

WAR should have won this hands down.

DO646260
DO646260

@cikid No they are talking about the stupid version of the Olympics game they released... I say we just burn all copies of all the games listed and never speak of them again!

JMCDS45
JMCDS45

Sega, you made such amazing games when you were in the homeconsole business, now that you have more time to make great games you make them crappy.

Superdude475
Superdude475

Lost was actually a pretty good game. It was just really, really, short.

ItsRichie
ItsRichie

They also threw the olympics into the dump.

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