15 Most Overrated Video Games Of The Decade (So Far)

1. Bioshock: Infinite

Also a contender for the Most Disappointing Game Of The Decade thanks to a string of trailers purporting to include features and graphics that were nowhere to be seen in the final game, it's with Bioshock: Infinite's core portrayal of Booker and Elizabeth's relationship, some truly terrible gunplay, a practically nonexistent upgrade system and a nonsensical world that ruin any potential impact.

First up, that 'will they, won't they' link between Booker and Elizabeth - it felt like you got far more preamble and believability out of the trailers than you did in-game, the two of them flitting between high-octane set-pieces as an excuse to expedite the "I really need you" plotline.

Throw in the fact that the combat was no fun whatsoever, relying entirely on walled-off 'arenas' where you had little choice but to hold down the fire button and wait it out - the Handyman heavies being a particular annoyance - and the already scattershot plot felt far too rushed for its weighty emotional payoff to have the requisite effect.

All of that was compounded by the most basic things like the existence of Tonics in the world feeling out of place in a functioning society - a far cry from the older Bioshocks where the citizens had gone mad inventing the identical Plasmids - hence you discovering what was left after the chaos broke out.

In the end you could tell Ken Levine couldn't pull the whole project together as he'd first envisioned, and the corners that were cut ended up also severing enjoyment at every turn.

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