avp2 was terrible max, don't touch it! Play the first one, its so much better
Splinter Cell is seriously turd. Well boring. Rainbox Six: Rogue Spear is better as far as clancy games go
Oh and one of the worst games ever made, in my opinion is tomb raider. It was raved about, I picked up a copy (pirate) for the psx, and it was the most boring, buggy, poorly designed and terribly controlled piece of excrement I played up until that point. It was the biggest logical error I encountered until Blair Witch got rave reviews.
It was like, have these people never played Mario64? (which I belive came out ages before it and started the whole 3d platformer/adventure revolution) That one I could play because the controls were cool. Soul Reaver was the best 3d action/adventure type game I can *remember* on the PSX
Prince of Persia (3d) was okay I suppose, except for the terribly bland and repetative gameplay. I completed it fine with a keyboard and mouse btw, it was an okay game
But it was just as fine pluggin the joypad in, although it dumbed it down a notch or two, but I think that was the point. Platformers still need pads, but playing anything else (excluding beat em ups and proper racing games of course) is just silly since its a major downgrade
HL2 is out on nov. 26th btw, thought this was the thread to mention it in.