Boy, I have played and loved a lot of terrible games over the years. My favorite "bad" game is Darkest of Days, where you play as a Union soldier fated to die at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, but you are saved by a time traveling agent and brought to the "present", where we have perfected time travel and use it for purely historical purposes, checking to see if the victor wrote the history books correctly. But why were you brought back, pray tell? Apparently this shadowy organization is messing up the passage of time (how they would detect that, I don't know) and you need to travel back in history to make sure that the people who lead great lives and were sent to the battlefield by the organization make a safe return. You see the Civil War, WW1, and even Rome for a bit and kill soldiers as well as selectively spare others who aren't supposed to die, with handouts in the form of modern uber weapons along the way. Mowing down the Confederates with an assault rifle never gets old. In the present, you report to a set of eyes on a television screen (named "Mother") and work with Dexter, a walking encyclopedia of meaningless swears and tepid wisecracks. Darkest of Days, a masterpiece from the minds of Monkey8labs, sold almost no units and was given a respectable score of 3.5 from IGN.
Other games I enjoy are Sneak King, a game where you stalk people as the Burger King mascot and give them sandwiches, and Duke Nukem Forever, a game lost in time that was collectively booed by critics, despite having a solid story and exciting multiplayer. As for less recent games, I happened to enjoy Shadow the Hedgehog, and I think they should make another.
