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00:00See, he got a firm grip, and let it rip.
00:04Right into his window.
00:05Yes, he'll sue you, but you'll win.
00:08No one witnessed this.
00:10Welcome to Mojo Plays, and today we're looking at the games that gave the licensed game genre a bad name
00:16during a time that produced some of the best licensed games of all time.
00:20Okay, go on.
00:22Go on what?
00:24Man, I can feel you staring at me and it's making my skin crawl.
00:27Just ask the damn question, you nosy mother.
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00:38American Idol
00:39It was almost impossible to ignore the hype around American Idol when it first began back in the early 2000s.
00:45And of course, we got a video game to coincide with the budding reality series.
00:50However, rather than play to the strengths of the reality show, namely the singing it's known for,
00:55the video game adaptation instead decided a rhythm-based game was the best possible option.
01:01And yet, they still even failed at a genre that dates back to the early days of the PS1.
01:06Button prompts don't match with the singing or even the songs themselves,
01:10and if you manage to make it through your audition,
01:13you were rewarded with the most generic responses from some of the most bizarre representations of the judges' panel
01:18due to the game's weird graphical style.
01:21Honestly, you'd be better off singing into the mirror like we know you already do.
01:25Home Alone
01:26Home Alone is a timeless holiday classic full of laugh-out-loud and heartwarming moments.
01:37And they made a video game about it that made the pointless sequels look like Oscar contenders.
01:42A game that had no reason to exist already set the bar low,
01:45but Home Alone on the PS2 hit rock bottom and somehow kept digging.
01:50The simple gameplay loop consists of booby-trapping the levels to fend off Teemu, Harry, and Marv,
01:55all while controlling Not Kevin through incredibly basic levels,
01:58fighting the controls more than the Home Invaders.
02:01As far as the musical score, there isn't one.
02:03So get used to hearing your character's footsteps and almost nothing else for the entire graciously short run time.
02:10Adding further insult, getting caught results in a full game over,
02:14sending you back to the start of the game.
02:16You know it's bad when you somehow made the NES Home Alone game look like a classic.
02:25Mr. Bean
02:33Mr. Bean is an icon of comedy genius.
02:37The Mr. Bean video game is not.
02:39Released a full decade after the peak of Mr. Bean's popularity,
02:43the game follows the animated version of the character
02:46and his quest to track down his beloved teddy bear and the opposite of hilarity ensues.
02:51At first glance, the game looks like it should have been released back on the PS1,
02:55and the overly simplistic gameplay only reinforces these perceptions.
02:59Character animations and environments are downright ugly and lack any real detail.
03:04The variety of minigames lack any real depth or cohesion,
03:08instead feeling slapped together just like the rest of the game.
03:11With none of the heart or humor of the British comedy legend,
03:15playing the Mr. Bean game does more to tarnish the memory of the series than honor it.
03:24The Mummy Returns
03:26You will die at my hands now, creature,
03:30as you should have perished at the hands of my Magi forefathers thousands of years ago.
03:36The Brendan Fraser Mummy movies remain absolute classics,
03:39but all the fun and charm of the original duology
03:42isn't even remotely present in the video game tie-in to The Mummy Returns.
03:47Almost nothing about the game is redeemable,
03:50from the clunky and imprecise controls
03:52to the graphics that make the CG Scorpion King from the movie look cutting-edge
03:56to the repetitive and boring puzzle and level design.
03:59All hampered even further by a broken and buggy camera system
04:03makes simply playing the game more of an exercise in patience
04:06than the enjoyable escapism like the movie.
04:09The only interesting incorporation was the dual campaigns
04:12where players controlled both Rick and Imutep through different storylines.
04:16But even this concept was hampered by everything else built around the core gameplay itself.
04:21Even The Mummy Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is more fun than this.
04:25But just barely.
04:34Fantastic Four Rise of the Silver Surfer
04:47Anyone familiar with Marvel's First Family's track record in gaming
04:50can already see where this is going.
04:52Naturally, every member of the Fantastic Four is playable
04:55and players are free to switch between them all,
04:58which is necessary for solving the game's rudimentary puzzles.
05:01Thankfully, every character's powers are also unique
05:04and mostly useful in the various combat encounters,
05:07and that's about it.
05:08The game's biggest issue isn't the controls, the camera,
05:11or any of the usual gameplay mechanics that hold back a title like this.
05:15It's just the fact that it's so freaking boring.
05:18The entire gameplay loop is moving from one area to another,
05:21fighting a bunch of baddies,
05:23maybe solving a door puzzle or destroying some kind of mechanism,
05:26and repeating this ad nauseum.
05:28It's basically the exact same formula as Marvel Ultimate Alliance,
05:32but they somehow manage to make playing as four members
05:35of a super-powered family boring as hell.
05:38Step on it, Reed!
05:39Show us what she's got!
05:41Oh, she's got plenty.
05:45Robocop
05:45Don't shoot!
05:47I give up!
05:51You are under arrest.
05:55While today, the formula for a solid Robocop experience
05:58has nearly been perfected,
05:59back on the PS2,
06:01we were suffering through game adaptations
06:02almost as bad as Robocop 3.
06:05Almost.
06:06Robocop commits the worst crime for a game
06:08about playing as a cybernetically enhanced police officer
06:11in a futuristic crime-riddled Detroit.
06:14It made it boring.
06:15Not only are Robocop's movements laughably slow,
06:18but the game's AI is also horrendously inept,
06:21and the ugly graphics and terrible controls,
06:24particularly in the game's targeting,
06:26don't help.
06:26The game also suffers from balancing issues
06:29due to enemies' bullet sponge health bars
06:31eating up all the player's ammo supply
06:33and leaving them completely vulnerable
06:35in the sparse and open areas with no cover.
06:38Robocop might be one of the worst game adaptations
06:40based on the popular IP,
06:42which makes sense when you realize
06:44it was designed by the same devs as Superman 64.
06:55Aquatine Hunger Force, Zombie Pro-Am
06:57Where are we going?
06:58To master golf as a sport.
07:00I shall score a perfect 18
07:02and leave a massive trail of blood in my wake.
07:06Okay, but we're supposed to wear the proper attire shape.
07:09Anyone who grew up with the OG Adult Swim
07:11will have fond memories of Aquatine Hunger Force,
07:14but even the most dedicated fans
07:15knew a video game adaptation wasn't going to work.
07:18And yet somehow we ended up with a game
07:20that shouldn't exist
07:21and is about golf of all things.
07:24Admittedly, the humor of the show remains mostly intact,
07:27especially thanks to the inclusion
07:28of the show's main voice actors,
07:30but suffering through the monotonous and choppy gameplay
07:33doesn't really make it worth playing
07:35for a few lines of funny dialogue and story moments.
07:38Everything from the golf mechanics themselves
07:40to the rest of the minigames
07:42just feels like ideas that were never fleshed out.
07:45Given the show regularly parodies video games,
07:47this could be a big meta-joke about video game adaptations,
07:51but we doubt it.
07:52The big thing I think we all realize out here today
07:55is that this sport sucks.
07:57Big time.
07:58Golf is for losers.
07:59Little Britain, the video game.
08:01Adapting a sketch comedy series like Little Britain
08:04into a video game was already a bizarre decision,
08:07but the end result was even worse
08:09than anyone could have imagined.
08:11Everything about the game is ugly,
08:13from the graphics to the environments, character models,
08:16and even the musical score is torturous to listen to.
08:19The controls are somehow even worse.
08:22Every minigame naturally has its own controls to contend with,
08:26which are ridiculously unresponsive,
08:28and not one of them feels like they were tested even once.
08:32Little Britain, the video game,
08:33pulls sketches from the series' most popular moments
08:36and removes everything that made them funny
08:38and are instead just downright unfun to play.
08:41Despite Little Britain being one of the best sketch comedy shows
08:44to come out of Britain,
08:45it feels like the developers actively hated the IP
08:48they were developing for.
08:49Crazy Frog Racer 2.
08:51Hey, remember that annoying frog
08:53with the stupidly catchy song from the early 2000s?
08:56Want to be subjected to that song and annoying sound on repeat,
08:59but also take control of that stupid frog
09:02in a bizarre kart racer?
09:03Well then, do we have the game you need to avoid at all costs.
09:07Ignoring the fact that this idea got two video games,
09:11who was really asking for even one of these?
09:14By the time the first game released,
09:15the Crazy Frog craze was already dying out,
09:18so the sequel was quickly thrown together
09:20and was somehow even more abysmal than the first.
09:23Controls barely function,
09:25races are boring and repetitive,
09:27and the constant rave music becomes immediately grating
09:30even for the most dedicated techno hit.
09:33Crazy Frog Racer is a game that never should have existed,
09:36let alone twice,
09:37but it's somehow still less annoying than 6'7".
09:41The Simpsons Skateboarding.
09:43Kickflip.
09:44I hate it.
09:46I'm bursting with pride.
09:50That's the picket.
09:51If you've ever played a game based on The Simpsons,
09:54you already know how hit and miss the experience can be.
09:57Just before we got timeless gems like The Simpsons Hit and Run
10:00and The Simpsons Game,
10:01fans were subjected to one last obvious cash grab from the license,
10:05The Simpsons Skateboarding.
10:07Clearly attempting to cash in on the popularity of the Tony Hawk franchise,
10:11the fact that the original voice cast and show writers returned
10:14was the only highlight of the experience.
10:16Shallow and broken gameplay and controls
10:19made what in the Tony Hawk games feel like second nature,
10:22an agonizingly frustrating experience
10:25made worse by poor level design and bland, lifeless environments.
10:29This isn't even mentioning the ugly graphics,
10:31countless bugs, glitches, and unbearably long load times.
10:35With none of The Simpsons Family's usual charm,
10:38the title is more infamous for how bad it is
10:40than its association with the famous family.
10:51Pimp My Ride.
10:59MTV's Pimp My Ride was a guilty pleasure reality show we all watched in the mid-2000s
11:05just to see how ludicrous these cars would turn out,
11:08but no one was looking for this to be an interactive experience.
11:12Everything about the design of this game is just ridiculous.
11:15From driving around trying to impress random NPCs with your car
11:19and Ghost Ride the Whip,
11:20their words, not mine,
11:22through rhythm-based button prompts and cringe-inducing dance moves
11:25to earn enough cash to renovate one of these eyesore vehicles
11:29into an even bigger eyesore,
11:31but now with flashy colors.
11:33And when you finally pimp the ride,
11:35it's nothing but another series of quicktime events and rhythm games.
11:39And then you repeat the cycle again and again
11:42until the phrases Pimp My Ride and Ghost Ride the Whip
11:45have lost even more meaning than they had at the beginning.
11:48You remember your old ride, right?
11:50Man, it was finished.
11:51But not anymore.
11:52Take a look at your brand new ride.
11:54Ah, that's my car! That's my car! Oh my god!
11:57Come on, let's check it out.
11:59Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing
12:01And in the red corner,
12:04Iron Mike Tyson!
12:09Given Mike Tyson is one of the best boxers in the history of the sport,
12:13you wouldn't think they would just slap his name on any boxing game and call it a day,
12:17but apparently that's exactly what they did with Mike Tyson Heavyweight Boxing.
12:22Firstly, controlling your boxers is incredibly cumbersome and broken
12:26with unresponsive and confusing button mapping,
12:29leading to fights breaking down to simple button mashing and hoping for the best.
12:33And then there was the graphics and presentation.
12:36Given this was early in the PS2 life cycle,
12:39some poor graphics could be forgiven.
12:41But this was beyond the pale.
12:43Collision detection was spotty at best,
12:46and even the announcers would routinely recite the same soundbites endlessly.
12:50And when they weren't doing that,
12:52their commentary was completely inaccurate.
12:54The creative boxer mode was interesting,
12:57but not enough to save this extremely low-effort cash-in on Tyson's name.
13:02The winner is...
13:05Iron Mike Tyson!
13:08The Shield The Game
13:09Go on, arrest me.
13:11Imagine the questions your captain will have about the money you stole from us.
13:15Although mostly forgotten by today's streaming-addicted audiences,
13:19The Shield was one of the best police dramas of the early 2000s,
13:22and naturally received a video game adaptation to capitalize on that popularity.
13:27To its credit, the game does its best to adapt the gritty, realistic take on the police procedural to video
13:32game mechanics,
13:33but instead further proves why this game shouldn't exist.
13:36The AI is insanely stupid,
13:39the investigation mechanics either don't make sense or are completely broken,
13:43the gunplay is barely serviceable,
13:45and the hand-to-hand mechanics and their inclusion are poorly executed and barely functional.
13:51And this isn't even mentioning the controls which actively fight against you over the most basic mechanics.
13:57The Shield The Game is a game that literally shouldn't exist,
14:00as it was cancelled,
14:02but saved from execution at the final hour,
14:05only to commit further crimes against its audience.
14:15McFarlane's Evil Prophecy
14:16Todd McFarlane is responsible for some of the most recognizable art in comics,
14:21so a video game based on one of his creations should have easily been a new medium for his art
14:26to reach a new audience,
14:28but sadly, that wasn't the case.
14:30With an overcomplicated setup for a simple hack and slasher,
14:33the four main characters, which players can switch to at any time,
14:37all have unique abilities which in theory should offer a decent enough experience.
14:42But the repetitive nature of the genre and basic combo attacks make the gameplay loop incredibly boring and very quickly.
14:49Attacks also feel ridiculously underpowered,
14:53even the special attacks with even the most basic enemies shaking off your strongest attacks.
14:58There was a decent concept here,
15:00and combined with McFarlane's art could have been a decent action game,
15:04but instead, it feels like yet another vehicle to push McFarlane's merch.
15:08Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
15:10Not since he closed it up and sent us all home.
15:13I know, Grandpa Joe.
15:14I wish we could see inside.
15:16And the world wished along with him.
15:18Much like Wonka's Chocolate Factory,
15:20don't let the sweet, sugary exterior fool you.
15:23Underneath the colorful exterior is an experience that is rotten to the core.
15:27Despite the graphics being above average for a tie-in,
15:30the rest of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a pale imitation of the original,
15:35just like Tim Burton's film.
15:36Gameplay itself is ridiculously cumbersome and frustrating,
15:40made worse by a camera that seems to be controlled by an Oompa Loompa
15:43after a few too many fizzy lifting drinks.
15:46These frustrations are only exacerbated when you need to control the Oompa Loompas,
15:50and you begin to wonder how the factory hadn't burned down years ago.
15:54The Oompa Loompas are worse than Lemmings,
15:57unable to follow even the most basic commands without going rogue,
16:00leading to simple requests taking far too long to complete.
16:04Do yourself a favor.
16:05Grab a Wonka bar and re-watch Gene Wilder's classic instead.
16:08You'll have a much better time.
16:10But even when Mr. Wonka's invention proved that the impossible was indeed possible.
16:17Holy buckets!
16:18Fight Club
16:19Rule number four!
16:21Only two guys to a fight.
16:24Okay.
16:25Let's see what you got.
16:27First rule of the Fight Club video game?
16:29We do not talk about the Fight Club video game.
16:32Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about the Fight Club video game.
16:35Fight Club is a video game adaptation that not only has no reason to exist,
16:39but is also about five years too late to capitalize on the film's popularity.
16:44Not only does the very existence of the game go against the film's anti-consumer messaging,
16:48but the game feels like the laziest version of a cash-grab tie-in.
16:52The graphics are below subpar,
16:54the fighting mechanics are basic at best,
16:56and broken the rest of the time.
16:58There is also almost no individuality between the fighters,
17:02and everyone has nearly the same movements and attacks,
17:05removing any possible depth from the game's combat.
17:08The static images during cutscenes and the inclusion of Fred Durst as an unlockable character
17:13only reinforces the game's status at the bottom.
17:16Listen, don't pay any attention to that guy.
17:20I need some help.
17:21Catwoman.
17:22But she was reborn.
17:23Help!
17:25Miss Catwoman.
17:27Considering what a dumpster fire the Catwoman movie was,
17:30it's no surprise that the video game adaptation is somehow even worse.
17:34The entire game is like a parody of what a good superhero game should be.
17:39Oversimplified but somehow still broken combat?
17:42Check.
17:42One of the worst cameras in the PS2 generation?
17:45Check.
17:46A story somehow worse than the movie it's based on?
17:48Check.
17:49Check.
17:50Check.
17:50Almost nothing in the game works properly or is even remotely entertaining.
17:55Exploration is almost non-existent as the game leads the player by the hand
17:59from one lackluster encounter to the next,
18:01and the graphics would barely pass for a late-gen PS1 game,
18:05let alone one that came out four years into the PS2's life cycle.
18:09Catwoman the movie set Halle Berry's career back years,
18:12and the Catwoman video game set movie video game adaptations back even further than they already were.
18:18So, think you can stop chasing after me now?
18:22Yeah.
18:23In my official capacity at least.
18:27Beverly Hills Cop.
18:28Sometimes, a video game adaptation comes years or sometimes even decades after the IP's popularity
18:34and manages to reignite interest in its films or series.
18:38That's not what happened here.
18:39If anything, it made fans appreciate the films even more.
18:43Yes, even the third one.
18:44Replacing Eddie Murphy with a generic man with the name Axel Foley,
18:48the plot meanders from one location to the next with almost no direct ties to one another
18:52and is barely enough to keep the game moving forward.
18:55Bizarrely, the game is a first-person shooter with some of the slowest gameplay mechanics in the genre
19:01and the inclusion of some of the most broken stealth mechanics in all of gaming.
19:05Enemy AI is non-existent, and along with some of the ugliest graphics for a late-gen PS2 game,
19:11the only thing that even remotely ties this game to the film franchise
19:14is using the same font as the films on the box art, Charlie's Angels.
19:19You girls can't answer the phone without something catching on fire or flipping over.
19:23Good point, Boz. We'll try not to blow anything up.
19:26The rebooted Charlie's Angels films were fun, light-hearted spy flicks
19:30that didn't take themselves too seriously.
19:32The video game adaptation of those movies is none of that.
19:35Rather than focus on the spy side of the Angels,
19:38the video game is instead a run-of-the-mill beat-em-up and not even a very good one.
19:42Telling its own original story, the Angels venture to various locations
19:46and beat up baddies in ludicrously skimpy outfits and button mash until they stop moving.
19:51Everything in the game is poorly designed,
19:54from the levels to the laughably bad animations and combat moves,
19:57to the wonky camera that feels like the game's true nemesis,
20:01and the blatantly oblivious enemy AI who graciously wait for you to finish pummeling their friends one by one before
20:07taking their turn.
20:08The game is also riddled with bugs and glitches,
20:11making this one mission the Angels should have immediately turned down.
20:15I've always wanted to read a criminal's rights.
20:17You're a natural.
20:18Oh, you get the picture.
20:20Call your lawyers for details.
20:22Bad Boys Miami Takedown.
20:24Oh, you gotta be kidding me.
20:26Old day just got better.
20:28Smile Marcus, this is gonna be exciting.
20:30There are some games that are so bad they're good,
20:32but Bad Boys Miami Takedown isn't just bad,
20:35it's hilariously bad.
20:37Almost nothing in the game works the way it should.
20:40From the trademark safe versions of Mike and Marcus,
20:43and their cringe-inducing dialogue and voice acting,
20:45to the downright ugly graphics broken and incompetent enemy AI,
20:50a cover system that doesn't even work and somehow controls even worse,
20:54the game is just a mess.
20:56Nothing about what made the Bad Boys film franchise fun and endearing is present in the game,
21:01and it's really saying something to prefer Michael Bay's overly enthusiastic direction
21:05to whatever is happening here.
21:07This is clearly a game that thought it would simply coast on the name recognition alone,
21:11but underestimated its audience's devotion to the real Bad Boys.
21:15You know, next time you bring someone down, make sure his ass is all way down.
21:19Well, his ass is down now.
21:21Not the point.
21:23Totally the point.
21:24What was the worst licensed game you played on the PS2?
21:27Share your traumas in the comments.
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