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Resident Evil 5? More like Recycled Evil 5

Words: Dave Meikleham, GamesRadar UK

What's in a name? Well, when it comes to video games names, usually a lot of tiresome buzz words, clichéd phrases and way too much use of the letter x. We're tired of titles chosen by marketing men, which are more concerned with selling us an idea than telling us about the actual game. The following games are all guilty of these naming shames, so that's why we've given each a new moniker to more accurately sum up either what each one is about or the legacy each one has left. If you enjoy this article, save some of your kudos for College Humour, who came up with the original concept.


 
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allthegoodnameswheretaken  - 5 months 19 days ago 
great article more please and first!!! yaaaay=)
Bambell  - 5 months 19 days ago 
Kinda average, didnt' think it was good. Cheers of War though got a smile!
oryandymackie  - 5 months 19 days ago 
Maybe you should have just made new names, instead of trying to vary the names?
Forrest22x  - 5 months 18 days ago 
There was something like this in one of the TDars.
manaconda  - 5 months 18 days ago 
thats a moist poo. very shiny. full marks for the poo.
Grenade  - 5 months 18 days ago 
LocoRoco? Racist? Leave the internet forever.
MechGyver  - 5 months 18 days ago 
I !?guess the names sounded better in british than in english ?!lol
But serously, kinda weak article. !keep tring!
Frexerik  - 5 months 18 days ago 
i admit, i laughed at the last one...
Clownsarescary  - 5 months 18 days ago 
Nice idea...but the names were a bit weak (No Big Profit?) and for the thousands of games out there, only two pages?

I haven't seen an article that can match the majesty of Chris Antista's 'soundtracks that ripped off songs' for a while.

Plus marks for the Came and Lynched, though. Gerstmann, come back to us.
zymn  - 5 months 18 days ago 
oh my. i just saw my first internet shit. except for that one time. in that one porno. oh god...
cronoman66  - 5 months 18 days ago 
Whatever the context MK Vs DC always makes me laugh, also kudos of the multitude of puns
cronoman66  - 5 months 18 days ago 
on*
crappy spelling ftw!
DarthSackboy  - 5 months 18 days ago 
Not very good I'm afraid.
nampmip  - 5 months 18 days ago 
WIISHIT thats funny
Starplatinum  - 5 months 18 days ago 
LOL I wasn't prepared for the goofy faces on Cheers of War...But I definately wasn't prepared for Wii Shit!! Bwahahaha!!
LolZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111 indeed!
JeffK  - 5 months 18 days ago 
Not to dogpile, and it's a mark of how consistently I enjoy the articles here that this is the first one I'm doing this for, but: Bleh. Puns are bad enough, these are bad (and in some cases, inexplicable) ones. No Big Profit? That's supposed to be funny? And there's an agreement that we as a society have come to: If you're going to make people look at pictures of feces to serve a joke, that joke has to be funny. Doing so in service of a joke that a third grader would think is dumb and the folks at Laffy Taffy would reject as "too juvenile" violates the social contract.
yankeesfan3  - 5 months 18 days ago 
haha great article. loved the mortal kombat and wii fit
Asamiya  - 5 months 18 days ago 
HAHA, Ryu on the Mortal Kombat side!
NipplesTheSuperHippo  - 5 months 18 days ago 
I saw the Wii one coming only because I was think that before I even came to the article. I have to say, Cheers of Gore was pretty creative. I was a fan.
Great stuff!!!
Spybreak8  - 5 months 18 days ago 
No no no, you need more semi colons in your titles and very long ass names. Seriously I still don't understand why the industry is doing that.
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