Worst of Shovelware: Grizzly Murder Edition

Naughty Bear (PS3, Xbox 360)
505 games, you’ve been very naughty. You’ve released a game that just might be one of the worst major releases of the year. You see, Naughty Bear is a very naughty bear. He’s not invited to a birthday party for all the other bears on Perfection Island. So, he takes out his revenge by… uh, scaring them to death.

What the trailers presented was far from what the game actually was.

This is why you should never trust trailers that don’t show gameplay.

We expected it to be a stuffed animal orgy of gore. Killing the beloved Care Bear-esque enemies in increasingly creative and gruesome ways. Instead, Naughty Bear proved to be a rush job with clunky controls, ugly graphics, bad animation, technical glitches, poor AI, and limited gameplay.

Gameplay focuses more on chasing and scaring the other bears for points. So much for Manhunt with teddy bears we were promised. IGN called it “an embarrassment and shouldn’t be purchased by anyone anywhere.” All this and more for just full retail price! This may be a candidate for shovelware of the year.