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#5 Charge 'N Blast - [ Dreamcast ]

Okay, in this little-known Dreamcast game, you charge up your gun, right? And then you blast. And you blast and blast. And then you head back to the local Electronics Boutique (remember, it's 2000!) and ask for a full refund. We like to imagine Sega's marketing team smiling big, smug grins after coming up with this name.


#4 Rosco McQueen: Firefighter Extreme - [ Playstation ]

If nothing else, the developers of this turd deserve a little credit: they clearly put more time and effort into conjuring up this name than all the other titles on this list combined.


#3 Space Bunnies Must Die! - [ PC ]

Actually, we decided to grant the Space Bunnies a pardon this year. They deserved it.


#2 Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of Aht Urhgan - [ Xbox 360 ]

Aht! Urghan! Say it loud and it sounds like you're disgorging your underwear through your nose. Lord knows why Square Enix chose this piece of urghan as the name of its Final Fantasy XI expansion pack, but we can think of several superior alternatives: Final Fantasy XI: Treasures of the Otaku sounds nice, doesn't it?


#1 Syphon Filter - [ PS2 ]

The granddaddy of them all. It doesn't take a Sam Fisher to figure out that "Syphon Filter" is just a fancy way of saying "suck." And "suck" just so happens to amply sum up this over-rated series, but judging by recent sales, you know that already. In the storyline, "Syphon Filter" is the code word for a next-gen viral weapon that targets specific ethnicities. Oh, great: a crappy name, crappy gameplay, and militant ethnocentrism. Way to go, 989 Studios.