A couple of days ago I penned my thoughts on Mario Kart and its controversial rubber-banding mechanics, and that got me thinking "what game has the most frustrating AI of all?" And that thought led me to the one game that frustrated me enough to damage my computer: not some Sierra adventure game, not lightning dodging in FFX, not Ghost and Goblins... but the unassuming abomination that is MS Hearts.

All they needed to do was have truly random shuffling/dealing, and AIs that played to win. Instead we got heavily scripted dealing (if you have the 4D, you know for sure that the other players will drop the 2D, 3D and the QS) and AIs that collude to prevent you from winning but will happily fall on their sword in order to protect another AI's lead.

I do have one good thing to say about it: it let me rename the three computer players whatever nasty names I wanted. (My favorite was "MSharts"; it made me feel like Shakespeare)