Game study: what makes a game ‘overrated’?

“Overrated” is a word that gets thrown around a lot nowadays. It’s a word that has been used with ever increasing regularity as the internet becomes more prevalent in our daily lives and is used to describe pieces of art in every medium, whether it’s games, films or music, but here we’ll just focus on the gaming side of things.

What must be understood about the term is that everything created with the intention of being consumed as some form of entertainment product is both loved and despised by somebody. There are people out there that genuinely enjoyed Aliens: Colonial Marines and there are people that intensely hated the original Bioshock. The opinions of human beings vary widely and there is no definitive truth concerning any game that has been produced.

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