Gears of War 2. Wii Sports.

Gears 1 was the SH!T how dare any of you call it overrated!!! lol jk

The most over rated game series of all time would have to be Final Fantasy series.

It is a boring repetitive cliche' JRPG series with Japanese emo/ gothics teenage kids as the main characters in the game.

Final Fantasy is definitely a game series you either love or hate there is no in between. I am a hater of Final Fantasy series.

Some people seem to have a hard time understanding the thread title, which is "most overrated game (singular)," not "list every game and/or series that you personally dislike even though a few other people like it because they're clearly stupid jackasses."

 Yeah I see alot of games that have gotten 70-80 scores in this thread that people claim is overrated???

Pfffft... Altered Beast was the shit!

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!

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GTA4 is by far the most overrated game of all time. I knew a lot of people who buyed it but stop playing after 1 1/2 hour. This game has a dump storyline and a repetitive gameplay. Even the graphic is not really nice on xbox/ps3, better on pc.

I think he said 'game' not 'games' but I admire your level of bile and high standards.

Halo 1 and Halo 2 for starters.

All Half Life titles easily, most CoD titles I'd argue, particularly on PC.  I guess you could see them as hybrid titles but PC fare such as Deus Ex and System Shock 2 had far superior actual campaigns (as in story, narrative, etc.  what the SP campaign should be about IMHO).

I thought Halo CE had a very good SP campaign let down by some very poor level design, but excused that due to the clear evidence of the title being rushed to support Xbox.

But I felt that given the time/money Bungie had available. from that point on the relatively weak SP campaigns (story, narrative, innovation, etc) in 2 & 3 were really inexcusable, particularly as the marketing campaign went overdrive on the idea of Halo as this mythic, amazing epic on a scale with Lord of the Rings.  With Halo 2 & 3 they perfected the online, innovated (for a console) FPS elements and polished and tuned the play to perfection.  They also produced two terribly bland and uninspiring SP campaigns IMHO and seemed happy to rest of the Halo bandwagon to carry the day without actually needing to deliver anything amazing.

Mind you, this isn't uncommon in games and films.  Look at how the Matrix introduced a similarly cool and interesting world then spent two films adding nothing much and simply going in circles expanding on already introduced themes.  It would have been nice though if they'd hit it out of the park - but clearly the shift in focus to online MP or making sure you could play coop overrode everything else.