Just due to their interactive nature, it's extremely difficult for a game to be "so bad it's good" in the same way a movie can. Fugitive Hunter: War On Terror - more specifically its PAL iteration, America's 10 Most Wanted - absolutely hits that mark for me. This game seems to have been made by inexperienced devs doing a completely unironic rendition of 50 Cent: Blood On The Sand, and it's post-9/11 media at its most glorious.
First of all, you simply must play the European release of this game over the watered down American one. The soundtrack absolutely rules, particularly the PAL-exclusive track by So Solid Crew where the rapper begins the song by proclaiming his desire to hunt down the first level's targeted fugitive, followed by "Osama Bin Laden......... you're next." Gold. The rest of the OST is varying degrees of funky, vaguely "Middle Eastern"-sounding dance music and chill beats to relax/study to. This absolutely goes off while you're blowing up racist caricatures with a grenade launcher at point blank range as "SPLAT! +1000 POINTS" pops up on screen.
The main character of this masterpiece is Jake Seaver, possibly the biggest douche ever to be cast as an FPS protagonist. He's like Duke Nukem with even less charisma, and I love him for it. "Some health!" "See ya later!" "This is crazy!" These are just three of the dozen or so incredible one-liners you'll hear him repeat every five seconds in his "frat boy we paid $50 to do some line readings" monotone. He also just looks like a guy who would call you slurs for telling him he can't bring his AR-15 into Walmart.
Gameplay frequently switches between first-person shooter sequences where only the shotguns & grenade launcher are accurate enough to actually kill any enemies and head-to-head fighting game bouts where you mash circle & triangle for 30 seconds to lock every boss into an unblockable combo. At the end of the game you get to beat up Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden because of course you do. "You are the real terrorists!" Saddam proclaims as Jake smashes his face in and probably says something to the effect of "the only terrorist here is my fist going up your ass." I don't remember his actual response, I'm just spitballing here.
This game is clearly held together by duct tape, as the further your save file is into the 2-hour story, the more likely it becomes that the animation on the main menu won't play, causing your TV to emit a horrific buzzing noise which will make you think your PS2 is going to explode. There are also tutorial videos that seemed geared toward people who have never played a video game before, and the voiced over lines in them alternate between different volumes and narrators mid-sentence.
The most shocking part of Fugitive Hunter came during the end credits, when it revealed that the mocap stunt work was provided by none other than Chad Stahelski and Dave (sic) Leitch of John Wick fame. I actually screamed and nearly threw my controller due to this revelation. Now that's kino!
First of all, you simply must play the European release of this game over the watered down American one. The soundtrack absolutely rules, particularly the PAL-exclusive track by So Solid Crew where the rapper begins the song by proclaiming his desire to hunt down the first level's targeted fugitive, followed by "Osama Bin Laden......... you're next." Gold. The rest of the OST is varying degrees of funky, vaguely "Middle Eastern"-sounding dance music and chill beats to relax/study to. This absolutely goes off while you're blowing up racist caricatures with a grenade launcher at point blank range as "SPLAT! +1000 POINTS" pops up on screen.
The main character of this masterpiece is Jake Seaver, possibly the biggest douche ever to be cast as an FPS protagonist. He's like Duke Nukem with even less charisma, and I love him for it. "Some health!" "See ya later!" "This is crazy!" These are just three of the dozen or so incredible one-liners you'll hear him repeat every five seconds in his "frat boy we paid $50 to do some line readings" monotone. He also just looks like a guy who would call you slurs for telling him he can't bring his AR-15 into Walmart.
Gameplay frequently switches between first-person shooter sequences where only the shotguns & grenade launcher are accurate enough to actually kill any enemies and head-to-head fighting game bouts where you mash circle & triangle for 30 seconds to lock every boss into an unblockable combo. At the end of the game you get to beat up Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden because of course you do. "You are the real terrorists!" Saddam proclaims as Jake smashes his face in and probably says something to the effect of "the only terrorist here is my fist going up your ass." I don't remember his actual response, I'm just spitballing here.
This game is clearly held together by duct tape, as the further your save file is into the 2-hour story, the more likely it becomes that the animation on the main menu won't play, causing your TV to emit a horrific buzzing noise which will make you think your PS2 is going to explode. There are also tutorial videos that seemed geared toward people who have never played a video game before, and the voiced over lines in them alternate between different volumes and narrators mid-sentence.
The most shocking part of Fugitive Hunter came during the end credits, when it revealed that the mocap stunt work was provided by none other than Chad Stahelski and Dave (sic) Leitch of John Wick fame. I actually screamed and nearly threw my controller due to this revelation. Now that's kino!