Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, there are critics available who can guide us away from games which are bad or even completely unplayable. Here are the most harshly judged games available for the PS4 according to the critic’s reviews on Metacritic:
5. Rugby World Cup 2015
25 metascore
Choose from among the 20 teams in the World Cup and take part in the most prestigious competition in rugby.
This game suffered from an inconsistent application of rules, with a broken gameplay loop and even game-breaking bugs.
4. Yasai Ninja
23 metascore
Yasai Ninja is a hack & slash game set in feudal Japan where Kaoru Tamanegi and Broccoli Joe face the most terrible vegetables. Play in 1 or 2 player mode and finish the adventure.
– IGN
This game suffered from poor co-op and because of an unruly camera, actions like jumping were hit-and-miss, controls were wonky, gameplay mechanics felt poorly-timed, and the level design was poor and repetitive.
3. Energy Hook
22 metascore
– Push Square
This game challenges you to chain together sequences of tricks, wall-runs, and stylish moves for massive scores. Bust through time challenges by using tricks to gain speed and seek out collectibles hidden throughout the levels.
Energy Hook had technical issues, was seen as unenjoyable and even unplayable, with plenty of bugs and non-existent plot.
2. Afro Samurai 2: Revenge of Kuma Volume One
21 metascore
Head out on a journey of redemption, driven by bitter-sweet revenge. The saga of Afro Samurai continues, but this time follows the path of Kuma, one of Afro’s closest childhood friends.
– Gaming Age
Afro Samurai suffered from various technical issues, poor skill progression, sloppy combat, offensive dialogue and poor voice acting, and completely random game rules.
1. Rugby 15
19 metascore
In this game, you take the helm of official teams and clubs from the most prestigious leagues around the world: the Aviva Premiership Rugby, the PRO 12 and the TOP 14 and PRO D2.
– Gamespot
Rugby 15 was penalized for having poor graphics, broken gameplay rules, tons of nasty programming bugs, and was even completely unplayable on the PlayStation 3.
Those were the worst 5 games on the PS4 according to average review scores. Know any others that deserve similar infamy? Let us know in the comments.
– IGN
