Alpha Protocol, Warrior Within.

And let's not forget also Alpha Protocol

I think nowaday game reviewers focus too much on their reviewing scheme, and pay not enough attention on what gamers expect from the game.
Like KOEI's Dynasty Warriors/ Samurai Warriors series, western game reviewers keep bashing it for using the same old formula. The true is, these games are still as successful as ever, and more and more games and animations series are having their own "Warriors" type of game.

More or less, I liked the game, but the reviewers seemed to be unable to ignore the history. The history isn't what we have to play, we have the game.

Personally, I got a huge blast of nostalgia from the various jokes all over the place. Hopefully the next game will be better though.

this. i thought it was a very solid FPS experience. not ground-breaking, but not necessarily worse than most other shooters released in recent years.

In this case, I fully agree with the mediocre reviews (65 or something on metacritic). One of the reviewers summed up my thoughts about the game pretty well (not a lot of details are given, but anyway):

The issue remains that the game as a whole seems unfinished, with combat that can only be described as woeful and a variety of small issues that add up rather quickly against the overall enjoyment of the title.

The sad thing is that a lot of it probably would have been groundbreaking had it shipped years earlier. It has it's moments and the game is fun, ultimately, that's the whole point of the game.

Some of the "reviews" and I'm using the word loosely were judging it on political and historical grounds that had little to do with the final product.

definitely The Darkness (first game)... It was far better than what the critics believed

this has to be the worst review for to the moon , while everyone praised the game to the moon , this jackass wrote such a crappy review that people want to report it as abuse check the comments
http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/to-the-moon/1214960p1.html

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There is a game called Alpha Protocol, not sure whether you all heard about it.

in that note... Vampire bloodlines but unfortunately they were unfair, justifiable reviews. The game was so broken so full of crappy things that most reviews could not recommend the game no matter how much they enjoyed the setting, characters, storyline and even combat.

I remember Blade Runner being crucified at the time. Critics accused it of not actually containing a game in there at all. I always enjoyed it and now people can't wait for it on GoG.

Sonic Chronicles Dark Brotherhood. It really was unfairly panned by critics. It should have been attacked viciously by them.

Also... Why are people complaining about all these 6s... 6s can actually be pretty good games if you are the target audience... In general the lower the average score, the more niche you get unless you are idea factory.

I agree with Alpha Protocol, that game was really nice and had many neat ideas. It was far from flawless though, with bugs and some poor design decision that really held it back.

Most of the earlier Paradox titles got low grades, with Victoria getting an average score of 58 on metacritic and its expansion faring just as poorly. Yet Victoria was a great game that a lot of people loved. It was just not for everyone. Surprisingly Europa Universalis: Rome, which was a lackluster game on release (but which was saved by its expansion) got a far higher average score. And Pride of Nations got a lot of odd comparisons by reviewers, one claiming that it was more like an expansion (to what? That was never explained) and there were also some Total War comparisons that seemed totally out of place. PoN did not get a horrible overall score though, just some very odd comments from the reviewers that were on the lower end of the spectrum.

I haven't really paid much attention to any games reviews lately (except for Yahtzee, but thats only for the humour - like any decent gamer would know :D ). However there is one review that even till today still sticks in my mind. It was a review in a ps1 mag for Wu Tang: Taste The Pain.
That thing was filled with so many innacuracies that I already knew was BS since I had played the demo shortly before, I think this was the first time I started thinking that reviewers were idiots and I believed that they spent less than 10 mins playing the game.
The single BS detail that I remeber most was they said that the plot of the story involves the Wu Tang Clan going off to rescue a kidnapped little girl - even though I already knew it was about them going off to rescue their kidnapped Martial Arts master (I'm still puzzled trying to figure out how the hell anybody could have made that confusion)