This isn't about bad games, necessarily; just games that make bad use of their license, as if the license was just slapped on to an otherwise unrelated game.
One of the all-time dumbest examples would be Universal Soldier on the Mega Drive. Factor 5 had just finished porting the awesome Turrican 2 to the MD, but was forced at the last minute to slap on the license to the 1992 action movie of the same name, and changed the main character to resemble Jean Claude Van Damme. Despite the change in character from a cyborg to a human (albeit a genetically-enhanced human), none of the Turrican 2 mechanics, like morphing into a spike ball, were justified in any way. Apparently Van Damme can just do that. Even stranger were the changes to the bosses; every boss was altered to look like Dolph Lundgren. So you end up killing about eight wildly different incarnations of Dolph Lundgren throughout the game. Because why the fuck not.
There weren't any other console versions of Turrican 2, either; just this dumb licensed version.
Oh, and they butchered the music too.
Check it out:
Turrican 2 longplay- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW4CDWyhxLw
Universal Soldier longplay- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2AYLPKcNk
Screens below (Turrican 2 left, Universal Soldier right):
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One of the all-time dumbest examples would be Universal Soldier on the Mega Drive. Factor 5 had just finished porting the awesome Turrican 2 to the MD, but was forced at the last minute to slap on the license to the 1992 action movie of the same name, and changed the main character to resemble Jean Claude Van Damme. Despite the change in character from a cyborg to a human (albeit a genetically-enhanced human), none of the Turrican 2 mechanics, like morphing into a spike ball, were justified in any way. Apparently Van Damme can just do that. Even stranger were the changes to the bosses; every boss was altered to look like Dolph Lundgren. So you end up killing about eight wildly different incarnations of Dolph Lundgren throughout the game. Because why the fuck not.
There weren't any other console versions of Turrican 2, either; just this dumb licensed version.
Oh, and they butchered the music too.
Check it out:
Turrican 2 longplay- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW4CDWyhxLw
Universal Soldier longplay- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IE2AYLPKcNk
Screens below (Turrican 2 left, Universal Soldier right):
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