Tour de France 2009 (2009)

Why did I buy this? I don't like cycling, but after looking at the appawling screenshots of this game, I said to myself, "Why not? It might be so bad it's funny." I was so wrong. Le Tour de France 2009 is not broken, but my god, it is a terrible, terrible game. The game does not really come with a good tutorial. Sure it explains concepts and buttons, but you never get to actually see how to play anything. The game features two modes divided amongst 22 or so stages. Some are the game's main mode where you control 5 cyclists and see if you can win the race. This mode is slow and boring to be honest. You pick whether you want a cyclist to: Follow, Relay, or Speed forward with a set amount of effort. I, however, found that you can win simply by putting the race speed to x4 via the pause menu and using the 'Go' command with the A button over and over again, thus eliminating any potential challenge. The time trials mode makes no sense to me, and honestly I'm probably just not understanding something because even at the slowest possible speed I cannot make certain turns without crashing. Every single time. In time trials mode, you aren't allowed to use the left stick to turn, but rather you get to use the Xbox 360's terrible D-pad. The game liked to alert me that I was in "83th" place quite a bit. Good to know that even the simplest of things got past the devs. Also the game looks terrible and features some obnoxious music on loop. Le Tour de France isn't broken, but god damn is it the worst thing besides that due to easily the most simplistic and boring gameplay I've seen on the Xbox 360