10 Video Games That Tried Way Too Hard To Be Cool

5. God Of War 3

The first two God of War games deserve way more credit than they get. These days, they're looked upon kind of as relics of a bygone era, a moment in gaming where everything was about excess and big, manly anti-heroes beating the ever-loving snot out of hundreds of enemies.

While the first two games did have some of that, it was the third that pretty much became everything the franchise's harshest critics always said it was. Things that were tongue in cheek before were played straight here, and it was clear that this time around the devs were being as crass and hyper-boneheaded as possible because they thought it was cool.

Consequently, we got a Kratos who was more bloodthirsty than ever, destroying an entire civilisation and killing innocents because he cold, while at the same trying to convince players he was genuinely going through an 'emotional' and 'tragic' narrative.

It didn't work, and lost the tight balance that made the spectacle of the previous releases so unashamedly enjoyable.