10 Ways You Can Tell A Video Game Is Going To Suck

Any time a developer promises players that their co-op-focused game can also be played just fine as a solo player, it's sensible to be a little weary - and beyond that, probably wait for reviews to see how it really shakes out.

The history of co-op games with single-player functionality is littered with wildly underwhelming titles which, more often than not, feature a wildly inferior solo offering that makes it painfully clear that co-op was always the devs' primary focus.

Take the recent Redfall, a game that's enough of a bore played with three friends, but on your own? It's "playable" in the most literal, technically correct sense, but somehow even more joyless an experience.

In games that were built as a co-op experience first, the single-player mode almost always feels like a hokey afterthought - an arbitrary obligation to tick a box and not completely turn solo players off, at least not until they play the game for themselves.