15 Most Overrated Video Games Since 2000

2. Bioshock: Infinite

It's hard to push past the gorgeous art aesthetic and phenomenal voice acting of Bioshock to find something darker within, but it's that bottom layer, the fact that nothing really holds up, that I couldn't get away from.

Take combat. It's a very basic, dual-trigger affair, with hardly any options when dealing with the infuriating Handymen. They'll constantly sprint after you, sapping your health in seconds, with no recourse other than attempting to gain distance by using the various sky-hooks, only to then rinse and repeat.

Plot falls apart when your interaction with Comstock is resigned to a cutscene auto-kill, there's a ludicrously pretentious moment where Booker and Elizabeth sing a song out of nowhere about their own predicaments, the combat itself had zero progression, and come game's end, you'll be talking more about the Rapture cameo than anything you've just seen.

All these things are indicative of the development hell the game went through, and for all its achievements conceptually, I've always thought the execution was way wide of the mark.