10 Deliberate Gameplay Features That Ruin Your Immersion

This one should be self-explanatory. These songs and the artists that perform them exist in the real world. So, if they're suddenly plonked in the middle of a video game, are we supposed to assume they exist in that game's world, too?

And while, fair enough, some games go for something closer to realism than others, they're still largely works of fiction, so how can you escape the fact that the developers are basically shoehorning real-life things into them for the sake of a bit more revenue?

What most people don't realise is that a lot of a game's atmosphere comes from its soundtrack. The deeper it is, the more of a unique identity that game will have. And even when there's a kind of mix between original music and catchy radio numbers, wouldn't it have been better if they'd just gone the whole hog with the former?

Bottom line: if you're trying to get into a deep fictional world, the last thing you want is for the real world to start clawing its way back into your mind - and song-based soundtracks will do that to you every time.