10 Most Overrated Video Games Of 2018
9. A Way Out
Josef Fares' follow-up to his beloved 2013 indie smash Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons is an entertaining yet deeply flawed game that didn't quite live up to the hype (or the exuberance of Fares' personality).
Even ignoring the fact that A Way Out only allows local co-op play - to ensure the experience is a strictly interpersonal one in a single physical space - the game generally falls prey to what most people feared when it was first revealed.
For starters, the cinematic gameplay is too rote and linear for its own good, often requiring both players to carry-out tedious busy-work in order to progress, to say nothing of the fairly mediocre shooting and driving sequences.
The story itself is little more than an avalanche of cliches with a forced, overly sentimental sense of emotion, hewing too close to the melodramatic prison escape movies it's clearly drawing cues from.
Far cornier than it will ever admit it is, A Way Out is a fun, breezy five-hour romp while you're playing it, but were it not for sharing the experience with a friend, it'd actually be forgotten relatively quickly.
Nice try, basically.