ATTENTION ALL @giantbomb users!
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We have an incredibly important announcement from @alex_navarro regarding the future of Blight Club with @DanRyckert!
Please welcome the new "GAMES MASTER OF BLIGHT CLUB!" pic.twitter.com/9avVw8AjMb
There's some important news related to Giant Bomb's Blight Club feature. During the Giant Beastcast reunion panel, which was unfortunately not recorded, Alex Navarro announced that he would be taking the title "GAMES MASTER OF BLIGHT CLUB" in light of Dan missing/skipping his turn a little while ago. Alex's first decree is for Dan to play the following two games sequentially the moment he completes Superman:
- Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
- Drake of the 99 Dragons
Why did Alex pick these two games? Well, they remain two of the lowest rated games from his tenure as an editor and reviewer at GameSpot. For example, in his 3.7/10 review for Terminator 3 he stated:
The game is, at its heart, a first-person shooter, but it also contains a boatload of CG and taken-from-the-film cutscenes, as well as a fighting game-styled combat system. This all may sound well and good, but Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines feels like a rushed hack-job of a game, with just barely enough cohesive action to keep it from completely falling apart at the seams.
Despite the fact that four different development teams worked on various aspects of Terminator 3, the game, as a whole, still feels completely slapdash and thrown-together. None of its gameplay components come together in any kind of an interesting way to make the game the least bit entertaining to play, and the muddy visuals, mediocre audio, and largely absent plot just don't make Terminator 3 anything worth recommending in the slightest. The only remaining thing that could appeal to anyone is the significant amount of film footage and random behind-the-scenes featurettes contained on the disc, but nearly all of this can be found on the recently released Terminator 3 DVD, which also has this footage in significantly better quality and doesn't require you to play through this mess of a game to unlock it all. If you want Terminator 3, watch the movie and pretend this game doesn't exist. You'll be infinitely better off.
Fun fact, Terminator 3 comes from developer Black Ops Entertainment and runs on the same game engine as Fugitive Hunter: War on Terror. You know... the game where you get into a fist-fight with Osama bin Laden in the name of avenging the death of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Nonetheless, the real doozy is Drake of the 99 Dragons which Alex maintains is "the worst game I have ever played," and his 1.6/10 review stands as a testament of that. In fact, the final paragraph of his review is absolutely scathing in its rejection of the game:
To simply call Drake bad would be a major understatement. Drake is simply an out-and-out failure in every single discernable category. Whatever style or pizzazz that Idol FX has tried to create for its comic book world is buried under a pile of cheap graphics, a lame story, awful audio, and an abysmal gameplay system that would still be painful to play even if it weren't as decisively broken as it is. There's nothing stylish or interesting about Drake, and, to be quite frank, any time spent playing this game is an absolute waste. If it isn't clear up to this point, let us sum it up with one simple statement: Don't play this game.
So, yeah, if Dan manages to survive this gauntlet then he is clearly made of tougher stuff than all of us combined.
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