History Channel: Civil War A Nation Divided – WORST XBOX 360 GAME EVER!

Wow, wow and wow are the only three words that crossed my mind when I had a chance to play this game. First off, where to start, because this is without a doubt the worst Xbox 360 game to ever be created. Seriously, it’s really that bad. I will start by wagging my finger at the developers! Shame on you Cauldron and Activision, you both know better and this one is a surefire strikeout for both of you clods. And how could you ever release this game with your name on it, thinking that you would not get flack from the gaming community as a whole. I know that the History Channel wanted a game, but seriously you had to go and make this lackluster, junk bin fodder? Really? Yes people this game is so bad that when you pop it (and I don’t ever recommend that you even waste time doing so) in to your Xbox 360 you will notice that the graphics are keen to the Sega Dreamcast, and we all know how much that console really sucked. So here is the scoop, on what I am fondly dubbing as the Worst Game Ever for the Xbox 360!

The boards are smaller than a studio apartment in the Bronx. They end with walls that you can clearly see, and somehow, enemy soldiers just appear from the walls as they rush to kill you. So from one end of the board to the other, you can reach in a minute or so. The enemy AI is so bad that I was even able to sneak around to the cannon guys and kill them. Mind you, it took me like five minutes to kill anybody because it takes that long to reload your gun. And some how, even though I have the muzzle of my musket pressed firmly against the forehead of an enemy, when I shoot it, he is barely tainted by it, and then proceeds to shoot me back. So I guess, during the Civil War, gunshot wounds at point blank range to the skull do nothing. Wow!

And Furthermore: even when I was aiming at point blank range, the bullets would quite often miss the enemy? Don’t ask me about that one because I don’t know. The graphics are eight bit at best, and you can plainly see that this game had zero development time and that the History Channel or whoever funded it decided that they didn’t care how bad it was. So why even release a game this bad, especially for the next generation gaming consoles? I found the only way to win was to run around and butt soldiers with your gun, which does not require that you reload and which kills them faster, like I really cared at that point.

"Currently this game sits as the worst Xbox 360 game to ever be released, right next to its brother in arms: The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific – which is an equally lousy game that sucks just as much. "

My Score: -1 out of 10 (That's minus points this game sucked so bad!)