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Welcome to the halfway point of 2011. What better time to make a couple of lists? Following aren’t necessarily the worst of the year — if I’m lucky, I didn’t play those! — but the most disappointing to me personally. These are the games with the widest gulf between what they could have been and what they actually are.<\/p>\n

After the jump, let the wailing and gnashing of teeth commence<\/strong><\/p>\n

10) Homefront<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Decent multiplayer, but awful single-player. Which is a disappointing step down from the developer’s previous game, Frontlines, which had stellar multiplayer and decent single player. Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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9) Dirt 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>A mostly soulless racer that doesn’t understand what made Dirt 2 so good. Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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8) Brink<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Why does a mainly online multiplayer shooter have so many online issues? Didn’t the guys at Splash Damage figure this stuff out when they did Quake Wars? Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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7) Bulletstorm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>“Dick-tits” is as good as Bulletstorm gets.<\/p>\n

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6) Shadows of the Damned<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>This underwhelming shooter from the creator of Killer 7 wishes it was funny enough to have thought up the phrase “dick-tits”. More here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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5) DC Universe Online<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Why create a really cool open-world city and then build onto it an MMO that eventually moves all the players into private instances, leaving the cities abandoned? I love the basic combat, but the world building is the equivalent of Cambodia under Pol Pot. Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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4) Test Drive Unlimited 2<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>True to the original in nearly every way, including the horrible online support, bugs, and incomplete features.<\/p>\n

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3) LA Noire<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/span>\"\"<\/a>This would be a great game if it had a game in it. Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

2) Patapon 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>What has Sony done to my precious patapons?<\/em> Read the review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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1) Marvel vs Capcom 3<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/strong>\"\"<\/a>Why would Capcom make such a wonderful and relatively accessible fighting game, but without interesting ways to play? And why would it be so utterly undocumented? And why would they nickel-and-dime us for DLC consisting of half-assed AI modes that should have been in the game in the first place? Why is Mortal Kombat, which is a considerably worse game, such a better overall package? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features"],"yoast_head":"\nThe most disappointing games of 2011 (so far!) - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/06\/30\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The most disappointing games of 2011 (so far!) - Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/06\/30\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Quarter to Three\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-06-30T23:09:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/2011_disappointing.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Tom Chick\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Tom Chick\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Tom Chick\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/6a609bd1629ebbc177fb1d4839f5db3f\"},\"headline\":\"The most disappointing games of 2011 (so far!)\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-06-30T23:09:11+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":375,\"commentCount\":14,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/2011_disappointing.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Features\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.quartertothree.com\\\/fp\\\/2011\\\/06\\\/30\\\/the-most-disappointing-games-of-2011-so-far\\\/\",\"name\":\"The most disappointing games of 2011 (so far!) - 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