This game almost made me quit video games

Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta - Episode 1 - Gold Edition

Granted, had it been released during the 128-bit era (Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, NUON, DISCover and Gamecube), I would have seen it in a better light. But c'mon, that was over 15 years ago. If you were a convict, who spent the last 15 years in jail, you could be forgiven
for thinking "this is a good-looking game". Look around you, newly-freed convict -- now is the 720-bit era.

The game's control system is poor. Hit detection is not accurate. As mentioned earlier, graphics are early PS2-era, kind of deflating. The only upside to this game is the language dubbing and subtitling options, to which most of the funds went to, I'm sure. The voice-overs are professional work, impressive and stunning when heard in native Arabic. The game offers over 20 subtitle languages, more than any other video game in history I believe.

I've played a lot of poor games, and actually enjoyed them. Who here enjoyed Duke Nukem Forever, Mortal Kombat Mythologies: Sub Zero, or Daikatana? I sat through those games because they represented some sort of milestone for the companies that produced them; the legendary 15-year dev cycle of Duke Nukem Forever, the end of digitized graphics in Mortal Kombat, and Daiktana for going through three different graphics engines during production. This game, Unearthed, is a milestone for video gaming in the Middle East, as it was made by Semaphore/Semanoor (a Saudi Arabian video game company).

But this one, I'll remember for a long time. When I first played it, I quit gaming for 2 weeks. It was that poor. But, having a fetish for poor games, I still managed to finish it.

(btw my Steam library is full of poor-quality games, that I need to try as well.)