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 Dubious Honors: Most Disappointing Game on Xbox At GameSpot, we believe that each game must be considered on its own terms. When we evaluate a game, we set aside any preconceived notions about what that game is supposed to be or how good it should have been, and we review the game on its merits. However, sometimes it's impossible not to approach a particular game with a certain set of expectations; some games have such ambitious concepts or such good predecessors that you can't help but wonder whether they could have turned out differently. The following Xbox game disappointed us most of all this year:
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What do you get when you take a beloved 16-bit franchise, water down its gameplay, and add in a ton of "personality" elements that manage to ruin whatever level of coolness the characters had built up in the past? You get the Xbox's most disappointing game of 2002, ToeJam & Earl III: Mission to Earth.There were certainly a few other disappointing games on the Xbox this year, from the wasted license potential of Bruce Lee: Quest of the Dragon to the utterly unfun gameplay of Microsoft's platformer, Blinx: The Time Sweeper. But ToeJam & Earl III is the sort of hope-crushing product that, by giving the characters lame voices and attaching them to a weak script, actually manages to retroactively lessen the quality of the previous games in the series. Once you've been exposed to the entirely unfunny sense of humor found in TJ&E III, you'll never look at the series the same way again. The quirky original game in the series may have been one of the Genesis' standout hits, but this new game's tired interpretation of the characters is, like the category says, the most disappointing thing to hit the Xbox in 2002.
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