Men in Black Alien Crisis Launches Next Week, Looks Terrible

You know, I try to be an optimist about the game industry.  For every complaint about EA not caring about their consumer base I look at the developers in their employ and just how great some of their games are.  For every rant about publishers charging exorbitant amounts for downloadable content I think about how those funds can help insure the developer continuing to make great new titles.  And, for every licensed-out video game title that is worth less than the gas it costs to drive down to your local game store to buy it, I try to remember the great gems that come along every now and then.

Every now and then though there comes a title that just makes me want to go before Congress and do a filibuster about just what that particular game exemplifies about our industry and just what's wrong with it.  So far this year it was going to be Resident Evil Operation Raccoon City, a game that was so painful to play that I refuse to ever again let the disc enter my system beyond completing that campaign.  It looks like I might have to change my mind on which title deserves the coveted crown of "worst game of 2012" after having seen the above trailer.

Coinciding with the release of the third Men in Black film opening in time for Memorial Day, Men in Black Alien Crisis both seems to have nothing to do with the new movie nor any sense of what the core plotline of what the MiB universe is about.  You know, covertly preventing the population from knowing of the existence of extra-terrestrials?  Yea, that thing.  The game is coming to us from Romanian developer Fun Labs whose previous titles all involve Cabelas hunting-related ones.  Judging from their pedigree, the trailer above's lack of any sense of what the MiB universe is about and the fact that their website seems to have been made in 2003 I'm willing to suggest that Alien Crisis is going to be abysmal.

...you know what?  I've decided.  I'm going to review this game.  For those of you who look forward to the thought of my cringing constantly as I experience it, you don't get the last laugh.  I'm going to play this on the feed next week.  You will experience every flinch-warranting, painful moment with me as we go on a journey to learn just how bad licensed games can be.  If I have to go down, I'm taking you all with me.

I look forward to your mandatory attendance.