10 Video Games Nobody Admits Are Annoyingly Overrated

5. Alien Isolation

Metacritic: 80

Nobody expected a horror game from RTS masters Creative Assembly to be up to snuff, but remarkably, it remains the best Alien game ever made.

Though... not a perfect one.

Perhaps down to the studios' infancy in the horror genre, annoyingly they decided to really space out checkpoint placement for the sake of ratcheting up the tension. This would've been fine (ish) if we stood more of a chance against the Xenomorph, but again, in pursuit of establishing it as a fearsome foe, should the creature get anywhere close to you, an instant-kill animation kicked you back to the last save point.

Apply this model to a game with lots of keycard fetch-quests, slow patrol-watching so you can slink on by (only to get stabbed in the back) and a pretty poor idea of where the alien is outside of using a motion detector, and you have a game that looked stunning, but was a total dog to play.