7 Most Overrated Video Games Of 2021

1. Deathloop

Even now, months after launch when Deathloop dropped to a host of perfect and near-perfect scores, I don't see it.

And man, have I tried.

Arkane's wannabe sandbox murder sim gives you four main areas - split across a single day's timeframe - where you need to take down 8 different targets across as many timeloops as you need, until they're all slaughter-able in one go. Its advertised and championed as something where you'll slowly move the pieces into place, Hitman-style, for that one final, glorious kill-chain.

However, playing Deathloop feels clunky as hell in almost every way. Once you're out a ludicrously elongated tutorial, it's practically "Bells & Whistles: The Game", distracting you from the fact you're simply loading into an area, going to a place and holding a button or killing one person, with an abundance of menu systems, crafting options and supposed customisation that ultimately barely factors in.

Worst of all, this supposedly open-ended structure boils down to the same final mission and the same ending, regardless of whatever you do beforehand. And that's without mentioning the game's invasion-based multiplayer means you and other players are encouraged to mess up whatever potential mission structure there is, before you get there.

Deathloop arrived like some gilded, angelic creation all those in its presence must bow and be thankful for, and while I treasure Arkane as a studio, they completely missed the mark here.