Sci Fi's Top 10 Overrated Games Of 08 May Offend

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Many of the following ten games are great. A few came close to being on my top ten list (to be posted tomorrow). I would call a couple of them works of genius. But I think they're the most overrated games of the year for the simple fact that I'm surprised at how well received they were. I wouldn't recommend any of these without a few important caveats.

10) Civilization IV: Colonization
I've never won a single game of Colonization. But I've loved every game I've played. I don't imagine many people would feel the same.

9) Left 4 Dead
It's a great showcase for zombies that can run and co-op gameplay, but it's as fast, slick, fun in groups, and gratifying as chasing a greased pig (take that however you will). Serious Sam and Robotron were pretty cool, too, while the thrill lasted.

8) Burnout: Paradise
A racing game largely devoid of meaningful physics or convenience, also known as Burnout: Drive All the Way Back to the Starting Line Because There's No "Re-Try Race" Option, Suckers!.

7) Spore
The developers have explained that Spore was essentially three products: a content creator, a game-ish sort of thing, and a way to share stuff. Unless you're interested in at least two of those three things, and if you're willing for at least one of them to be rather anemic, Spore will be a head-scratcher.

6) Wii Fit
Wii fad.

5) Mass Effect
The long-in-the-tooth Bioware RPG formula applied to a generic sci-fi universe, with bouncing buggy driving/shooting sequences standing in for the exploration of alien worlds

4) Metal Gear Solid 4
For fans only. For everyone else, this is Kojima's long slow wank and you have to get to watch.

3) Braid
This is not a game that moves and it's not very accessible. You need to have a stomach for old-school platformers and mental brick walls. Which is a shame, because the place Braid eventually goes is sublime.

2) Little Big Planet
Awesome graphics! And those little sack people are so cute I could just eat them up! Now where's the game?

1) Grand Theft Auto IV
One of the most amazing realizations of a real-world-ish place and one of my favorite games this year. Also the setting for a poorly told story and uninspired gameplay, and the subject of a system-shattering PC port.

i agree with a couple

but....

wasnt mass effect released in november 07?

I disagree with Mass effect. rest seem okay to a point.

lmfao @ the burnout paradise comment. I love it.

I agree with all except Mass Effect, MGS4, and GTA4. I wonder if this editor has even played any of these games all the way through, or if they even like good video games

Mass effect was huge, and dope
MGS4 was epic....my mouth has never dropped so many times during a video game and iv never been infected with emotions because of a video game except when i played this one
and gta4 was so fucking fun it makes me sick

WORD. MGS4 is funny as fuck when you get the invisibility head band lmao the enemies are all running round like retards not knowing who's fucking their shit up

Fuck Sci-Fi.

nice @ GTA IV, told you chumps

lol, wow..what a horrible list, they basically named any big game that garnered any hype and put it on the list.

Left 4 Dead is overrated tho... lol
come on... the graphics are bunk... the gameplay is nothing special, it introduces NOTHING new, and the main game is like 3hrs long... lol. It's only 4 fuckin stages in the game.

the big "ooooo" is the "hordes" of zombies that run at you, and the "co op"... both of which are nothing new at all.

that to me = Over hyped.

why is it overhyped?
cuz it's a Valve game... and people are looking for a reason to make it good.
I played that game for a good while too, so its not just me shooting in the dark.

GTA4 overrated?Possibly..but the story is great,kinda repetitive at the start..but none the less I loved it.

kris kain doesn't know shit about video games!

MSG4 is beautiful i still play it and i just got back into playing GTA4

L4D is overrated