The Worst Video Games Released In 1998

Railroad Tycoon 2: Platinum

• Simulation
• Strategy

Includes Railroad Tycoon II and the expansion The Second Century It can take you from New York to South Africa. It can take you from the year 1804 to the year 2000. It can take you from penniless manual laborer to powerful multi-millionaire.

DethKarz

• Action
• racing
• Shooter

SiN Gold

• Action
• Horror
• Shooter

Planets Edge The Point Of No Return

• Simulation
• Scifi
• RolePlaying

Wetlands

• Action
• RealTimeStrategy

South Park

• FirstPerson
• Shooter

In 2013, TV Guide ranked South Park the tenth Greatest TV Cartoon of All Time. The show follows the exploits of four boys, Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick. The boys live in the fictional small town of South Park, located within the real-life South Park basin in the Rocky...

Fallout 2

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game is a role-playing open world video game developed by Black Isle Studios and published by Interplay in September 1998. Injuries and poisons can reduce the number of action points available both in a single term and semi-permanently until combat ends and the...

Spyro The Dragon

• Platform

The first game in the Spyro series, it stars the title character, a young purple dragon named Spyro, and his dragonfly friend, Sparx, who must journey across the Dragon Kingdom to defeat Gnasty Gnorc, who has overtaken the 5 dragon Homeworlds by trapping the other dragons in crystal and turning their...

Cowboy Bebop

• Shooter

The twenty-six episodes of the series are set in the year 2071, and follow the lives of a bounty hunter crew traveling on the Bebop . The entire twenty-six episodes of the series were later broadcast on WOWOW from October 24 until April 24, 1999. The anime series was dubbed in the English language by...

Ghost In The Shell

• Shooter

This is a cyberpunk-themed third-person shooter video game developed by Exact and Production I.G for the PlayStation. The game plot revolves around a recruit of Public Security Section 9 as he investigates and combats the Human Liberation Front. The player controls a Fuchikoma, a robotic fighting vehicle...

Suikoden

• RolePlaying

The game series is loosely based on the classical Chinese novel, Shui Hu Zhuan by Shi Naian.Shui Hu Zhuan is rendered as 水滸伝 in Japanese, and read phonetically as Suikoden. Though the Suikoden games follow an irregular chronological sequence of events, the entire series takes place within...

Grim Fandango

• PointAndClick

Grim Fandango is an adventure game developed and published by LucasArts in 1998 for Microsoft Windows, with Tim Schafer as the game's project leader. Grim Fandango's world combines elements of the Aztec belief of afterlife with style aspects of film noir, including The Maltese Falcon, On the Waterfront...

DoDonPachi

• Arcade
• Shooter

As with its predecessor DonPachi, the title is both a Japanese term for expressing the sound of gunfire, and a term that relates to bees . The overall background of the game, unlike following sequels, remains more or less centered around a supposed invasion by a mysterious race of mechanized aliens,...

Radiant Silvergun

• Action
• Arcade
• Puzzle
• Shooter
• Action
• Arcade
• Puzzle
• Shooter

It was originally released on the ST-V arcade platform in 1998 and subsequently ported to the Sega Saturn later that year. The player has three buttons to control the weapons; the weapon fired depends on the combination of buttons pressed. Whenever the player kills three enemies that are of the same...

Virtua Fighter 3tb

• Fighting

Virtua Fighter 3 is the sequel to 1994's Virtua Fighter 2 and the third fighting game in the Virtua Fighter series, developed by Sega AM2 and published by Sega in 1996. It was the first arcade game to run on the Sega Model 3 system board. Like its predecessors, Virtua Fighter 3 was a major hit in arcades,...

Dark Forces

• FirstPerson
• Shooter

The story is set in the fictional Star Wars expanded universe and begins shortly before the original Star Wars film, before flashing forward to a year after the film's events. The game's protagonist and playable character is Kyle Katarn, a mercenary working on behalf of the Rebel Alliance who discovers...

Rival Schools

• Fighting

RIVAL SCHOOLS...OUT OF CONTROL! Capcom unleashes explosive tag-team fighting action in Rival Schools – the most innovative 3-D fighter that teams up 14 brand new warriors united by fate. Vibrant graphics, an intense storyline, outrageous new combos and Capcom's signature gameplay make Rival...

MediEvil

• adventure
• Action
• HackAndSlash

MediEvil is an action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by SCE Cambridge Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation. Originally conceived as an arcade-style shooter for platforms such as Windows and the Sega Saturn, Sony's purchase of SCE Cambridge Studio evolved...

Theme Hospital

• RealTimeStrategy
• Simulation

The game is the thematic successor to Theme Park, a game also produced by Bullfrog. While the player has no direct control over the patients who wander the hospital, they do however have some influence over whether to evict them from the hospital or determining what to do with them when given a choice...

Tomba!

• Platform

Tomba") in Japan, is a side-scrolling platform game developed by Whoopee Camp for the PlayStation console. Tomba's main method of attack is to jump on top of enemies to grab them, allowing him to hop around on them before throwing them away. AP is also used to gain access to special places or information...

Rise Of The Phoenix

• Strategy

The gameplay and control are quite unlike the similarly themed Romance of the Three Kingdoms or Nobunaga's Ambition series. The player plays as either Liu Bang or Xiang Yu. Liu Bang has below average stats for Politics and Skills however his Charisma is high and hence it is easy for him to make allies,...

Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 3D

• Action

The game's story was influenced by the Star Wars: X-wing – Rogue Squadron comics and is set in the fictional Star Wars galaxy, taking place primarily between events in the films Star Wars and The Empire Strikes Back. As the game progresses, Skywalker and Rogue Squadron fight the Galactic Empire in...

The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element is a third-person adventure wherein you take on the persona of one of two characters. Your two choices stem from the two main ones from the movie, Korben Dallas or Leeloo Minai Lekatariba-Lamina-Tchai Ekbat. Korben, played by Bruce Willis in the film, is a cab driver. He lives in...

Vangers

• adventure
• racing

Mind-altering sandbox game that can be described as a racing role-playing adventure game with a complicated storyline. You’ll find a unique atmosphere, complete freedom and lots of gameplay hours to figure out what’s the game is all about.