10 Video Games Nobody Admits Are Annoyingly Overrated

7. L.A. Noire

Metacritic: 89

The game that should've been phenomenal. A Rockstar-codeveloped detective thriller where you solved crimes using genuinely jaw-dropping facial tech to see when people were lying? How could it fail?

Well... by having said facial tech bolted onto a three-way accusation system; one that meant protagonist Cole Phelps ping pong'd between, "Yes, please tell me more" and "YOU DID IT DIDN'T YOU, YOU LYING SONOV-" and so on. As you can tell, this quintessential ingredient always tasted very sour indeed, and then you got onto things like the completely pointless open world, a runaway Crash Bandicoot-esque "escape the vehicle" segment (that the game let you skip, almost acknowledging its terribleness), and a conclusion that killed Phelps for no reason.

Though its aspirations were routed in a Vietnam-inspired "Platoon of soldiers come home and get embroiled in various crimes/revenge tales" setup, actually playing L.A. Noire just felt broken.