10 Well-Reviewed Video Games We TURNED ON After Launch

To look at the reviews for BioShock Infinite, you'd assume it was one of the most beloved video games of all time, with its 94 Metascore indicating "universal acclaim."

And for a short time upon release, that was the player sentiment too, yet once the allure of its gorgeous world, the ability to Sky-Hook around it, and unforgettable sidekick Elizabeth wore off, the overall reception settled to be considerably more muted.

Beyond perceiving Infinite to be a lesser sequel to the original BioShock, the story is hugely divisive and the combat regarded as clunky, resulting in a pronounced air of "it's fine" these days. Certainly not what you'd expect to hear from a game sitting in the mid-nineties on Metacritic.

Hell, there's even a growing view among the fandom that BioShock 2 - which has "only" 88 on Metacritic - is a criminally underappreciated gem and superior to Infinite.

This is absolutely a case of a game being undone by its own runaway hype, and in retrospect its strained development - enough that the game's production has its own Wikipedia page - seems quite obvious.