8 Times Gaming Critics Got It Completely Wrong

8. Alien Isolation's "Unpredictable AI"

We begin with something that still makes me chuckle to this day even so many years after Alien: Isolation dropped on the scene and caused us to do some emergency drops in our spacesuits.

Now if you ask pretty much anyone what they thought about this phenomenal survival horror sci-fi game, they'd probably tell you...well...that it's a phenomenal survival horror sci-fi game, complete with brilliantly tense hide n' seek scenes, thrilling and desperate escapes, and so much love and respect for the source material that you might have to wipe the kiss marks off the screen.

Yet for some reason, this title only garnered a 5.9 from IGN who stated that the game wasn't up to scratch thanks to "Unpredictable AI". Oh dear, what an absolute clanger of a comment seeing as the A.I mechanics here for the xenomorph especially were championed as some of the best in gaming history. With its two brains that talk to one another during gameplay, the Xenomorph homes in on you ramping the tension up at every moment and makes sure you can't just hide in the same spot over and over.

Yet for IGN, this was a negative, possibly saying more about the reviewer's playstyle more than anything wrong with the game. Needless to say, the negative review stuck out like a sore thumb and gamers obliterated the comments in online forums.