Jak 3

Haha, wow.

Little did I know when I mentally compared Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy to Bubsy 3D that one of its sequels would very nearly match it blow-by-blow for sheer awfulness. Jak 3 almost entirely lacks any redeeming features - its story feels lazily tacked on as an excuse to milk the Jak franchise, the new weapon upgrade system is a nice idea shoddily implemented and they haven't improved the gunplay itself since Jak II (where it wasn't exactly good anyway), the potentially game-saving cheats and abilities are introduced far too late on, and its unimaginative racing sections (yes, we get it, you've watched Mad Max) are far too frequent when you consider that this is legitimately, without question, the single worse racing simulator ever created. At least Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing is funny. Oh, and did I mention that you can't even leave out the racing sections if you don't like them, like you could leave out side-missions on The Precursor Legacy if they annoyed you? Play it on the Vita, as I did, and things get even worse - the framerate is so poor that you have to look away from the screen every 5 minutes to let your eyes recover, and the L2/R2 controls from the PS2's dualshock controller have been mapped to the console's rear touchpad, which I'm sure is absolutely fine for people with three hands and an extra set of eyes on stalks. There's no point even having the option to boost in a race if you're going to accidentally look out of your back window, open a menu, or change to a first-person view every time you try to use it. I'm not going to pretend I've played enough ports to be able to confident declare what the worst of all time is, but this surely must be a contender. The subtitles don't even work half the time.

Let's not allow the beatification of Naughty Dog in the wake of Uncharted and The Last of Us to cloud the fact that this steaming pile of shit came out of the same company.