Resident Evil 5
I’m sure many would describe the general story of Resident Evil 5 as anything but great, but there was a different narrative being actively created in each game by you and your co-op partners. What little thematic content was relevant in the story was made up for in you and your buddy’s “oh shit” moments throughout. This was all ruined however on account of the last boss. If played in co-op, Resident Evil 5 offers a fun multiplayer experience with plenty of strong moments, but the final boss is a complete joke. It follows no logical pattern, proving to be a frustrating and annoying experience that makes your other achievements throughout the game feel worthless. Wesker is a real jerk. No doubt about it.
Halo 2
Another game that felt like it pulled the rug from under your feet rather than actually reaching a sensible conclusion. The Master Chief glides toward a planet, setting up a no doubt awesome final level, and then the credits roll. Halo 2’s story just felt like bugger all after this, serving as a mere precursor to Halo 3. If they’d rounded out the ending properly I wouldn’t have felt so cheated but, as it was, Bungie really let themselves down with this one.
Prince of Persia (2008)
A game that sums up everything I despise about DLC. You have a beautiful game with a fairly touching (if horribly simplistic) love story, that refuses to give you any foreseeable conclusion unless you pay out another lump of cash. I’m sorry Ubisoft, is my £40 not good enough for you? Apparently not, as it just wasn’t enough to entitle me to a full game. All I get is the Prince screwing over the whole world just to save his woman only to walk away from it all. If this was the legitimate ending I might have thought it was pretty cool in a controversial way but, when Ubisoft announced the Epilogue DLC, I just knew they’d been screwing us over the whole time. Jerks.
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty
I love Hideo Kojima as much as the next guy, but he seriously went off the rails for this one. The initial tanker mission with Snake was awesome, only for us to find we can’t play as such an awesome character. No, we get Raiden instead. I thought I’d try and keep an open mind about it, and I actually kind of started to like Raiden after a while. But then he gets his junk out and runs around arsenal gear in his birthday suit, and what the hell is Start 3 anyways? I’ve got nothing. I think you’d honestly need a degree in batshit crazy to make any sense out of the ending to this game, throwing so many random plot threads and cheesy “enjoy life” messages at you that it barely gives you time to breath.
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