15 Worst PlayStation 2 Games Ever, Ranked

11. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

If you just look up screenshots of Charlie and the Chocolate Factorywould have you believe it’s at least a decent game. The graphics are surprisingly good for a licensed title, with a cartoonish, dreamlike quality that suits the film well. And it even has a really good soundtrack, similar to the film’s Danny Elfman score. Sounds like an underrated gem, right? Well no. The problems start when you actually try to play Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Charlie can both platform and direct Oompa Loompas, but no matter what you try to do, everything is just slow and unintuitive, and all of this is inevitably made worse by the terrible camera, which makes the game unnecessarily difficult to play. It’s just a painfully unpleasant experience, even if it has some good qualities.

10. The Simpsons skateboarding

The Simpsons skateboarding is the definition of a cheap cash-in. Riding on the enormous popularity of the Tony Hawk franchise at the time, Fox Interactive and EA simply gave a blow The Simpsons licensed a terrible skateboard motor and put an end to it. You know how Tony Hawk games are praised for their iconic level design and smooth controls? Well, none of that is here!

Levels are boring and simple, with not many options for creative combos. The more complicated tricks are difficult to perform, and even basic movements don’t often register. But perhaps worst of all: apart from the voice clips that quickly become repetitive, The Simpsons skateboarding doesn’t even make much use of its license, the franchise is mostly into window dressing to trick fans of the show into spending money. Any old IP address could have ended up in this mess.

9. Fight Club

First of all, given the anti-consumerist message of the book and the movie, it’s downright shameful that this game even exists. But even if you can put that aside, there’s just nothing redeeming about the Fight club video game. The graphics are boring and the mechanics do nothing to differentiate it from the dozens of other better fighting games out there. It doesn’t help that all the characters play basically the same.

As for the characters, Brad Pitt and Edward Norton wisely stayed away from this adaptation, although Meat Loaf, never one to turn down an easy paycheck, was happy to participate. The rest of the roster was rounded out by Abraham Lincoln and Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst (seriously), and you’re honestly much better off just watching a YouTube video of them fighting than spending the time it actually takes to by playing the game and unlock them.