I was discussing it other day with some friends, there are games that call your attention with their names but they are completely misleading.
e.g. I expected "Retrovirus" to be something about infection, epidemy and drug treatment, I expected "Natural Selection" to be some sort of improvement over Spore, I expected "Epigenesis" to be something marvelous since I can't even imagine a game about epigenesis, but what I really saw was... shooter, shooter, shooter! Also "Darwinia" is a RTS that, well, has actually nothing to do with Darwin...
What game names do you people think are totally misleading, have cool words but say nothing about the actual gameplay?

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He started alone because he was different, hence the title of the game.

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Trials Evolution - I thought it would upgrade every trial into a full version of a game.

It didn't

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Borderlands, I expected a setting that would fit papers please now better, when I first heard that name.

Hard Reset, well, we can only be happy that one doesn't live up to its name!

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Devil May Cry.
could the devil ever cry in the games?

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call of duty ghosts, they are not dead, they are soldiers... and a dog

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Dead Space - The space wasn't dead, and it was on a spaceship.
Escape Plan - You didn't had to make the plan, and at the end you didn't managed to escape!
Euro Truck Simulator - I thought that we can travel in the WHOLE Europe, not only West-EU

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Final Fantasy. It says clearly that it's FINAL Fantasy, but the games just keep coming! (Disclaimer: I know FF was originally supposed to be Squeenix' last game)
Serious Sam. Sam is NOT Serious.

XCOM Enemy Unknown. After countless hours of research, the enemy is very well known.

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There was no Square Enix when Final Fantasy was made.

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Mickeys Ultimate Challenge.

Well, Mickey was in it. As for the other two parts, ugh. And this was in an era where pretty much every game featuring Mickey Mouse was HARD!

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n.u.d.e.

"Danger Mouse: Making Whoopee" is not a rodent breeding game

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Ms. Pac-Man.

Was she a woman or a man? Why Ms. and not Mrs.? If her and Pac-Man meet up during the game and later a stork drops off their baby was it born out of wedlock? The only way she could have the last name of Pac-Man is if they were married (again, why the Ms.?) or if they were committing incest. The chances of two people with the same last name who aren't related meeting up and having kids together are pretty slim. Was she really his wife and she was too embarassed about it so she stuck with the Ms. surname?

WTF is a Pac?

In Japanese, "puck puck" is akin to the U.S.
saying "munch munch". So the original name - Puck-Man - translated as "Munch man". (A savvy Midway Games official changed it to Pac-Man when the game hit the U.S.
to discourage vandals from shaving off part of the "P," thereby creating an obscene word.)

So Ms. Pac-Man likes to munch men and Pac_Man does too I guess?

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its because ms pacman is a reskin of an unlicenced knockoff with superior gameplay staring pacman with sexy legs called "crazy otto" so they decided to use pacman with a bow and make him female. no idea why its ms vs mrs though

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Ms -- a married or unmarried woman
Mrs -- a married woman
Miss -- an unmarried woman

So Ms Pac-Man is as generic as they could get, keeping their relationship shrouded in mystery.

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"Awesome Possum" That possum wasn't awesome at all.

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But he was saving the environment! That's pretty awesome.

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Erm... But Natural Selection kinda is what the game is about... as far as I'm aware natural selection is that whole "Survival of the fittest" thing, often used when one species or race is wiped out by another, or one that simply dies from being inferior.

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Nooooo, that's ecological competition! You misinterpreted natural selection (probably the developers too), it's not between species, it's between individuals of the same species, which leads to evolutionary change of the species through generations.

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The GTA V for dyslectics.

It was released close to the GTA V, at least it was free for the first week or so...

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well it's known to make fun of a lot of things that's why it was made like that... also they add musics and other stuff to refer to movies like at begining the song is from a movie cant recall now name know its with bruce willies and in space xD

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5th Element

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Call Of duty ghosts, they are not dead, they are just a bunch of soldiers shooting into thin air ...

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Then they could kinda be shooting AT ghosts, maybe?

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"English Country Tune": Not a music game!

"Thomas Was Alone": Just blocks not people!

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Red Orchestra wan't a music game either. And I was looking forward to directing all those people clad in red.

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Snuggle Truck, I wanted to hug it out with my Truck Buddy. :(

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yeah i agree :(

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Drunken Robot Pornography... 'nuff said.

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