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More accurate names for your favourite games

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  - 6 months 5 days ago 
great article more please and first!!! yaaaay=)
Bambell  - 6 months 5 days ago 
Kinda average, didnt' think it was good. Cheers of War though got a smile!
oryandymackie  - 6 months 5 days ago 
Maybe you should have just made new names, instead of trying to vary the names?
Forrest22x  - 6 months 5 days ago 
There was something like this in one of the TDars.
manaconda  - 6 months 5 days ago 
thats a moist poo. very shiny. full marks for the poo.
Grenade  - 6 months 5 days ago 
LocoRoco? Racist? Leave the internet forever.
MechGyver  - 6 months 5 days ago 
I !?guess the names sounded better in british than in english ?!lol
But serously, kinda weak article. !keep tring!
Frexerik  - 6 months 5 days ago 
i admit, i laughed at the last one...
Clownsarescary  - 6 months 5 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  - 6 months 5 days ago 
oh my. i just saw my first internet shit. except for that one time. in that one porno. oh god...
cronoman66  - 6 months 5 days ago 
Whatever the context MK Vs DC always makes me laugh, also kudos of the multitude of puns
cronoman66  - 6 months 5 days ago 
on*
crappy spelling ftw!
DarthSackboy  - 6 months 5 days ago 
Not very good I'm afraid.
nampmip  - 6 months 5 days ago 
WIISHIT thats funny
Starplatinum  - 6 months 5 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  - 6 months 5 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  - 6 months 5 days ago 
haha great article. loved the mortal kombat and wii fit
Asamiya  - 6 months 5 days ago 
HAHA, Ryu on the Mortal Kombat side!
NipplesTheSuperHippo  - 6 months 5 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  - 6 months 4 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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