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Flat-Out Worst Game

Constants are few and far between in this constantly evolving world of ours, but if there's one thing you can count on each and every year, it's a crop of really, really terrible games. Developers miss the mark all the time, but year in and year out, it seems that a special few somehow manage to transcend the boundaries of mediocrity and create something so utterly terrible that even an utterance of said game's name sends shivers down the spines of gamers everywhere. And, once again, without fail, 2004 has delivered another onslaught of lousy games. These are the games you shouldn't, nay, mustn't play, for they are truly the cream of the crap crop:

Apocalyptica

(PC)
Publisher: Konami
Developer: Extreme FX
A religiously themed sci-fi FPS so lousy, they couldn't even get the real Satan to lend his likeness--just the substandard Neo-Satan.

Bad Boys: Miami Takedown

(XBOX, GC, PS2)
Publisher: Crave
Developer: Blitz Games
Bad games, bad games, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when we come for you?        

Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing

(PC)
Publisher: GameMill Publishing
Developer: Stellar Stone
Who would have thought that a game produced with Russian slave labor wouldn't turn out brilliantly?

FBI Hostage Rescue

(PC)
Publisher: Activision Value
Developer: Idol FX
A hostage-rescue game so horrible that the computer-controlled hostages can't actually be rescued.

Space Raiders

(GC)
Publisher: Mastiff
Developer: Taito Corporation
Ninety minutes of pure, unadulterated garbage. And this is supposed to be the spiritual successor to Space Invaders?
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