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So here is the first top 10 on vagusnet and i decided to choose one that was a bit straight forward and that would also be a bit different to what has been put on other video games websites.

Without further ado here is my top 10 of the biggest gaming cock-up’s of the last 5 years.

10 - Halo single player
Well this will probably piss a lot of people off however you do have to agree that Bungie had dropped the ball with the single player side of Halo 2 and 3 because this game is all about the multi-player not the single player but this does not give a reason for Bungie to make one of the lamest single player story lines in gaming.
If I’ve ever been pissed off with a single player storyline this has to be it.

9 - Lack of Wii games
Now i know that gaming consoles have a hard time when they launch as there will be a lack of triple a titles however i thought that the Wii had the biggest problem, here you have a fantastic console however at launch it was hard to choose more than 3 titles for the list they had and it took them a while before another big title came out.
Now though the Wii has come into itself and we have a fantastic console on our hands.

8 - No support for the Gamecube
Ahh the poor Gamecube had a really hard time of it because of a lack of support, there was very few developers that was making games for the Gamecube so this killed it off, yes Nintendo had some fantastic games but it would of helped the Gamecube more if there was other developers that released some games on the Cube.

7 - UMD
Need i say more about Sony’s stupid little disc’s that they thought would kick of movies on the go however the UMD movie has to be one of the stupidest ideas for a film format.
Why would you want to sit on the bus with a PSP in your watching a movie so everybody else could see and also why would you want to watch a movie on the move that would end after the first hour with the terrible battery life of the PSP thanks to the UMD eating at the battery.

6 - HD DVD
Another movie format that was tied to a console however only in an add on mode and this was the quick death of HD DVD.
This movie format was here for very long but it did piss off people who bought the £130 add on for the 360 to play HD DVD only to find out a few months later that the company behind it was going to stop making HD DVD players thus ending HD DVD.
I was one of those idiots who bought the add on for Christmas thinking that HD DVD had a chance however a few months later the add on’s only use came in the for as a door stop because now more new movies were going to come out of it.
I think Toshiba should of learned from the stupid UMD’s and not try a new movie format.

5 - Ports on the PSP
when Sony talked about all of the things that the PSP could do they forgot to mention that the little handheld would get more PS2 ports on the consoles than new games and this is probably why the PSP hasn’t done as well as the DS.
Yes it’s nice to have one or two games from the PS2 on the PSP but when over 50% of the games are ports then you have to think what the hell was Sony thinking about by letting a shit load of games on there handheld being ports.

4 - The Gizmondo
Now you are thinking what the hell was the Gizmondo well it was supposed to be a handheld that would challenge the DS and PSP but from the get go this handheld had no chance.
Problems ranging from no promotion of the handheld to the stupid president of Gizmondo that because the handheld was doing so badly he decided to crash his $1 million car and blame it on somebody who wasn’t really only to get the insurance from the car (the idiot ended off in prison for what he did).
So here is a note to anybody who wants to release a handheld to go up against the PSP and DS don’t do it.

3 - E3 getting smaller
Why did the creators of E3 think it was a good idea to make the biggest gaming convention of the year smaller, now there is no harm making it smaller however the size they made it with last years E3 was just stupid the whole idea of E3 was for a shit load of people to be crammed in a convention centre to play some of the biggest games to come out of the next year.
I think that some people might think that the smaller E3 is better and that you have other events through the year however E3 was always the big event and now with it being as small as it is now gaming companies aren’t going think that it’s that important to announce there big titles at E3 only to have either there own event or go to another one like the Tokyo game show etc.

2 - PS3 Launch Price
When the 360 came out at the end of 2005 it was launched at £279.99 (premium) and this was seen as a really good price, then the Wii came out at only £179.99 and this was a big bargain so what did Sony do well they made one of the biggest fuck ups and release there console at a huge £424.99.
Now yes there is a Blu-ray player built into the console itself but this should not of been the reason why Sony should of released there new console at such a high price.
the price was the reason why the PS3 hasn’t done as well as the other 2 however Sony have dropped the price of the PS3 to a better price of £299.99 and this has kick started the PS3 into life however people might think that it was to late for them to do this.

1 - Red Ring of Death
There was only going to be one cock up that would be number one and that’s the red ring of death on the 360.
the problem happened not far from the launch where people were having problems with there 360 with it over heating so badly that it would end the life of there new console however things got even worse when more and more 360 were dying until it came to a point where Microsoft had to hold there hands up and admit there was a problem.
At the time the 360 wasn’t making a profit on the console so it was even worse when microsoft had to pull out another $1 billion to extend peoples warranty so that if the red ring had happened then they would be covered for 3 years and not 1 year.
Microsoft should have learned there lesson now so we expect that there next console should not have as many problems as the 360.

Well that’s it for my first top 10 don’t forget to tell me what you think and also give me some ideas what other top 10’s i should do.

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Now the game has been out a little while so it’s time to tell you what i thought of the game and it isn’t all good news.

To start off with when you play the game for the first time you are in for a little treat as it can be fun to go around with a mate and shot the shit out of the bad guy’s however the cracks begin to show the more you play it.
The games major flaw comes down to the fact that it’s really really short (on the easy difficult setting it can be finished in less that a few hours) and it’s just the same thing over and over again.
The co-op elements just become repetitive and boring as there isn’t any variety to them and this was a very missed opportunity on EA’s part as they could of done so much more to make the game stand out a bit better

I’m not kicking the single player that much as the first play through of this game i enjoyed but i don’t see myself going through it again and again.

Now you might think that the huge saving grace of army of two will come down to the multi player side however this just makes the game worse as there is so much lag most of the time it’s unplayable, the enemy AI is so annoying that they constantly get in the way of you finishing your tasks, your main objectives are the same no matter how many times you play the maps and they stay in the same place and finally the biggest kicker is down to how many multi player maps there are and that’s a huge 4, yes you have read right there are only 4.

So over all the game is a big let down, I’m getting sick of magazines/Internet hyping up a game only for it to be a big let down plus the £40 price tag of it makes it even more hard more me to recommend this game.

Save up your money for either Rainbow 6 Vegas 2 or Condemned 2 Bloodshot.

Overall Score = 6/10

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I thought i would add another feature to VN that every other gaming site does and thats top 10’s.

So to kick off this weekend will be the first one and thats about the top 10 biggest gaming cock-up’s of the last 5 years (catchy title is’nt it).

I want to try and not follow other gaming sites by also doing top 10’s on other subjects apart from the usual 10 best games ever etc (but i will include those in them as well).

If you have any suggestions as to what top 10’s you would like to see let me know and i’ll give them a thought.

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