5 horror games with bad graphics

For starters, the game had incredibly poor graphics, with bad animations and terrible controls. It was also heavily criticized for how repetitive it is. This Gamecube exclusive title was created by Silicon Knights. Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem is a third-person survival horror game that has similar mechanics to the classic Resident Evil games.

However, it does enough different things that help it stay distinct — such as its celebrated and intriguing sanity mechanics. Focusing on stopping an evil entity from taking over the human race, the game went on to win numerous game awards and became a cult classic. Hopefully, this game takes on a proper remake or remaster one day. Shellshock 2: Bloodtrails is a game that is published by Eidos Interactive.

A sequel to the original Shellshock , it follows Private Nathaniel "Nate" Walker who has to hunt down his brother Caleb "Cal" Walker who had been affected with a deadly virus. The game plays as a third-person shooter during the Vietnam war, however, the poor premise and boring gameplay resulted in the game not being that well-received.

One of the best Castlevania games to ever exist in the series, Castlevania Symphony Of The Night follows Alucard, the son of Dracula, and is well celebrated by long-time fans. Acting as a sequel to the game Castlevania Rondo Of Blood , the game went on to be incredibly influential to a vast variety of similar video games and garnered a lot of acclaim from both fans and critics.

Playing similarly to games such as Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell , the player is tasked with navigating the character through city areas while avoiding vampiric threats.

However, despite the promising concept, it was critically panned by both gamers and critics alike — so panned that Screwattack gave it the worst Xbox game of The game was criticized heavily for its poor AI and the fact that many of its core gameplay elements are too similar to its inspirations.

That being said, the music was praised for fitting the tone. Although Bioshock is a spiritual successor to the System Shock franchise , this video game laid the foundation for one of the finest horror-themed games in Metacritic. Runescape is a game close to my heart. The world is nearly endless, and the monsters roam free. The issue is that all the visuals in the game could easily be recreated by a year-old with a rudimentary knowledge of Microsoft Paint.

To their credit, developing this browser-playing, Java-based game for millions of free to play accounts was a lot for Jagex to run. In this case, function, gameplay, and mass take precedent over making things pretty. However, the success of Runescape is largely due to how cheap and easy it was to play. If they had really tried to keep up with World of Warcraft , we would have lost the portability and free to play options — and traded that for more lag and a hefty price tag. Other retro-style pixel art games, like Binding of Issac , are beautiful and intentional.

When Undertale tries it, the graphics come off as confusing, disjointed, and downright ugly. The bit graphics are a stylistic choice, but when your game is made in , and it looks worse than original bit games, you have a problem.

When or if you can get past the graphics for this game, there is a pretty entertaining RPG. The battle system is great, and the plot gets deeper with each clue you connect. The characters, gameplay, and extensive underlying story make Undertale worth playing, but it might be better to try with your eyes closed.

Galleon was a long-awaited game that finally released as an Xbox exclusive. Before that, it had been in development for nearly a decade on several different consoles.

While patient fans were impressed with the swashbuckling storyline, the appearance of the game was a resounding disappointment.

The camera is jumpy and erratic, which induces an actual sea-sickness as you sail through this game. There are very few textures or color variance in the backgrounds, which ends up looking flat and boring. The characters, though well-developed within the game, are as blocky and bulky as a cheap knockoff action figure.

Running around as a dashing, heroic sea captain and exploring the thrilling story, detailed battles, and an array of gameplay styles makes for a great game. Overall, the long development of the game and the constant jump from system to system left Galleon with outdated graphics to match its original release date. When the highly-anticipated PlayStation release finally arrived, fans were dumbfounded at how ugly this game was. The frame rate is so depressingly slow that trying to see how bad the graphics are is a challenge in itself.

It is a dark, textureless mess. With a dynamic storyline, an impending apocalypse, and exciting characters that have stood the test of several game releases, this PlayStation release should have excelled with updated graphics and new technology. Instead, we have a great game hidden under dark, jerky graphics and bad design. The landscapes are flat and textureless, and nothing is sharp or defined. The real issue, however, is the people. We assume they are human — but only vaguely so as far as these Halo 3 graphics are concerned.

The mouth tracking on these weird faces is so bad it significantly detracts from the gameplay. This game is great, and any Halo fan should play it through, but it is not pretty. Body Harvest is an action-packed sci-fi adventure that combines an intriguing story with fun gameplay elements of combat and racing. The weak element of this game is the graphics.

Body Harvest was a late-release N64 title, and it shows. What may have been passable for earlier games is starkly outdated by the time Body Harvest finally hit the market. The enjoyment of the game is buried under drab landscapes and low-res visuals. The weak colors, lack of texture, and slow, jerky frame rates make it hard to enjoy the actual gameplay. Body Harvest has an interesting premise, but suffered from bad graphics that were already out of date at its release.

Minecraft swept through the gaming world like a pixellated hurricane over a decade ago, and it is still going strong. With releases on multiple platforms, new owners, and updates, the graphics have barely changed since its small-time release. The game was a bit of a letdown for people, as it turned out to be more of a puzzle game than an actual horror experience. While it still needed some refinement, it was probably released far too early to really deliver what it set out to achieve.

Not all horror games are made of the same stuff, and we mean that in both good and bad. Escape Dead Island brings us a cartoon-like Borderlands inspired post-apocalyptic world, where the main character Cliff must survive against hordes of zombies while avoiding the virus himself.

Many fans of Dead Island were gravely disappointed by the sloppy end product that was delivered. From frustrating controls that makes combat a headache, rather than an empowering experience, to the horrible "story", it feels like Escape Dead Island should have just remained an idea and never made it to the shelves.

There's no question that The Walking Dead is an insanely popular show. This game, however, is a bit of an insult to the franchise.

As Daryl we're forced into surviving against a horde of bloodthirsty zombies that will hunt the player down mercilessly, with an arsenal of weapons at our disposal. The idea in itself works, but given all the issues in the game it's hard to justify spending money on this one.

The graphics were definitely a big shock to many fans of the franchise, and when the performance isn't much better with tons of bugs still in the game, it's just a big miss for many fans of the zombie apocalypse genre. The Ghostbusters franchise is another favorite among a lot of gamers, but that doesn't mean every single title that's come out is necessarily worthwhile.

This Ghostbusters party game lets you team up with your friends against hilarious looking poltergeists of the neighborhood. The game, however, has a very amateur look. For what it promises, it never properly delivers anything. The graphics and gameplay are terrible, and look like something out of a party game collection from the early s than a horror game of the last decade.

Sometimes we see games that just make us go "why? Advertised as a horror-themed party game inspired by the classic Bomberman top-down maze game, you basically do the exact same thing here with no new mechanics. So, what makes this different from Bomberman? Well, it's horror-themed. It looks scary allegedly.