Most Overrated Games of 2007/2008?

I was just wondering what everyone felt the most overrated games from last year and the first half of this year were?
(To be clear, the game has to have already been released, which is why I said first half of this year!)

Here are mine:

2007:
    Call of Duty 4: (Uninspired + Railshooter = Uninspired Railshooter.
    Puzzle Quest: I Love puzzle games, but couldn't hate this game anymore.
   
2008:
    Battlefield Bad Company: It was good, but definitely not great.

Agree? Disagree? Got something to say? Let it be known! Don't be shy!

disagree with all of it

Sorry

I would disagree with you that Call of Duty 4 was overrated.

Agreed with Puzzle Quest. But disagreed with the other games.

Do you even know what a rail shooter is?  Because that's not what COD4 is. 

No games come to mind.

I agree on Battlefield same with COD4

2007: Call Of Duty 4 - A fun game but too much of a rehash to recieve and critical acclaim.

2008: GTA IV - It's didn't have the "magic" that the other GTA games possessed and was very repetetive.

I think you are going to piss some people off for those choices, man. Alot of COD 4 fanboys out there. Halo 3 was a bit overrated for me because it really didn't thrill me like GTA 4 did.

I wasn't to impressed with Assassin's Creed, and Puzzle Quest was just way to repetitive for me to get into.

"I think you are going to piss some people off for those choices, man. Alot of COD 4 fanboys out there. Halo 3 was a bit overrated for me because it really didn't thrill me like GTA 4 did. "

"2007: Call Of Duty 4 - A fun game but too much of a rehash to recieve and critical acclaim.

2008: GTA IV - It's didn't have the "magic" that the other GTA games possessed and was very repetetive.

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I personally think that Metal Gear Solid 4 is the most overrated game of the year. I am not a Sony hater and I love the series so I don't need any troll crap. I just found the game to become stale after Acts 1/2 and I don't really like it when I am watching a game more than playing it.

probably AC

Assassin's Creed was way to overrated. The whole science/time travel thing really annoyed me. They took a really sweet time period and sick game mechanics and added lame techno-garble during the fight sequences. The demos and previews looked so much better then the final game.

"tmontana1004 said:

"2007: Call Of Duty 4 - A fun game but too much of a rehash to recieve and critical acclaim.

2008: GTA IV - It's didn't have the "magic" that the other GTA games possessed and was very repetetive.

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I have to disagree about GTA4.  If by magic you mean jetpacks and whatever other kinds of insanity were in previous GTA's then Saints Row seems to be the way to go now.  It seems that GTA has decided to take the semi-refined real world path, rather than the insane world that SR2 will likely be.  I'm not saying the goffiness was a bad thing, but the two are separate beings now.
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"I personally think that Metal Gear Solid 4 is the most overrated game of the year. I am not a Sony hater and I love the series so I don't need any troll crap. I just found the game to become stale after Acts 1/2 and I don't really like it when I am watching a game more than playing it."

Uncharted

2007: Guitar Hero III especially the Wii version (which was identical to the PS2 version) didn't really deserve half the praise it received for just adding new songs alongwith a throwaway versus mode and a steeper difficulty curve which essentially ruined what made the Guitar Hero series so appealing to casual and hardcore gamers in the first place. I feel like critics went really nice on this one because they were impressed that Neversoft was able to pull off something that looked and played very close to Guitar Hero II except with a higher budget leading to a few more popular songs on the playlist. The tradeoff wasn't really worth it.

2008: I felt the Wii port of Okami received a lot more credit than it deserved just because it gave a critically successful game with lukewarm sales a second chance to really catch on with gamers. The problem was that this title still costed twice as much as the one and a half year old PS2 vesion of the game and ultimately took away the parchment filter in favor of 480p and widescreen support. The sensor bar based controls were good when they worked but they were incredibly touchy considering how simple the gestures the game would have you perform. While its still a much more polished experience than the Wii's Twilight Princess they really have no excuse for the lack of new content or graphical tweaks for the Wii hardware. I don't see how a few higher-resolution textures would have broke the bank for Ready At Dawn's port of the game. I'm still not saying Okami on the Wii was a bad game, I just don't think it deserved to be up there with other original games in the 9s category, maybe mid-8s would be fine for this.

I really did not see what made Assassin's Creed so amazing, but besides that I am gonna go with Grand Theft Auto IV.  Sure it was a great game, but after I beat it and played the multiplayer for a few weeks I have barely touched it

2007
-Orange Box
-Mass Effect
-Bioshock
-Hemorrhoid Prime 3
This year, probably:
-SSBB
-No More Heroes
-Mario Kart Wii

Criminally Underrated:
Uncharted
Ratchet
Super Mario Galaxy (not enough praise)

Im glad to see all of the different responses, hopefully that is what will make Giant Bomb great.  A wide variety of opinions is what will hopefully make this website great.  I'm glad people disagree with me, because then all the games would be the same if everyone agreed all the time.

Also, make sure you add your own picks for most overrated games of 2007/2008. I want to see more opinions.

Crysis was totally overrated. That game is just plain boring. Oh, it's so dull, dull, dull

2007

And to explain my "railshooter" comment (even though I guess I really shouldn't....
I just meant that COD 4 felt too much like a railshooter where everything happened in the same way every time you played (enemy placement, interactivity, etc.) Plus I just didn't feel there was any "style" to the game. (Gotto have games with a sense of style..)

But overall, I just wasn't a fan of the gameplay...it always felt kind of blah online and offline.

I agree with COD4, even though I like the game it isn't as good as some people make it out to be

**BUMP**

Anyone else?

OVERRATED:

2007: Assassins Creed, without a doubt. I was really disappointed by the game as a whole. Way too repetitive.
2008: Burnout: Paradise got wayyy to much praise. They took out the true fun parts of the game. I wasn't into the whole big city aspect of the game at all.

UNDERRATED:

2007: Lost Planet I thought was a really fun experience. The graphics were sick, and the online was pretty cool too. I think it got way to much criticism IMO.
2008: Condemned 2: Yeah, the story sucked the second half, but it was one of the creepiest games I've played since Silent Hill 2.

Overrated? How can anyone miss Halo 3, after launch and pre-launch it was madness. Assassins Creed was also a bit, pre-launch of course... And perhaps GTA IV, a tad.

I don't know anything that's Overrated but Haze was definetly most Overhyped

Definitely Halo 3. Yeah, it was good, but all those 9s and 10s out of 10? Not so much.

halo 3 was Waaaay overrated. i cant believe how unenjoyable that game was.

I don't see the appeal of Halo 3. I played it for a week. I didn't care about the single player enough to finish it, though i got close, and the multiplayer just didn't get me hard.

I don't know how anyone can call the Orange Box overrated. Unless it raped your mother and stole all of your ice cream, you can't justify it with reason.

"2007
-Orange Box
-Mass Effect
-Bioshock
-Hemorrhoid Prime 3
This year, probably:
-SSBB
-No More Heroes
-Mario Kart Wii
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I think people are getting overhyped mixed up with overrated.

Overhyped

Overrated

"I was just wondering what everyone felt the most overrated games from last year and the first half of this year were?
(To be clear, the game has to have already been released, which is why I said first half of this year!)

Here are mine:

2007:
    Call of Duty 4: (Uninspired + Railshooter = Uninspired Railshooter.
    Puzzle Quest: I Love puzzle games, but couldn't hate this game anymore.
   
2008:
    Battlefield Bad Company: It was good, but definitely not great.

Agree? Disagree? Got something to say? Let it be known! Don't be shy!

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  I don't think CoD4 was overrated at all, the SP was really fun and a great experience, and even a good story, but the main key of the game was the MP, which was not overrated at all... so, I have to disagree.

Overhyped Haze
Overrated madden (insert year here)
underrated Bioshock  I know it won a lot of awards but it didn't generate as much to gamers as I think it should of
and as far as CoD4 being a rail shooter, by your logic there everything but STALKER wasn't a rail shooter

gta4,crysis,half life2 episode 2, AC and the mother of all overrated games goes to METAL GEAR SOLID 4

COD4 definitely, that game was just so linear it was only worth a rental for the single-player and then the multiplayer was exciting for about 2 weeks.
I mean it was fun the time I spent with it, but that time was just to short.

Halo 3.

The online Co op was fun,but the multiplayer got old very fast.

"gta4,crysis,half life2 episode 2, AC and the mother of all overrated games goes to METAL GEAR SOLID 4
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2007: Call of Duty 4: I can definitely think of a two world summary. Grenades suck.

2008: Grand Theft Auto 4: Many of you are probably gonna disagree, but all of the things that made GTA great in my eyes like side quests, activities, etc. were great in San Andreas. in GTA IV all there was to do was take one of your lonely pathetic friends and play a game of pool or darts or w/e. Not my idea of fun. I liked working out riding bikes and such in SA.

puzzlequest, definity

Halo 3
GTA IV
SSBB
COD4
Mass Effect

 Halo 3 was good but not amazing and AC got old really fast.

2007:Halo 3
2008: GTA IV.
Don't hate me, I liked those games, they just had a really short lifespan.

i would have to go with Assassin's Creed for the most overrated game in 2007