16 Most Hotly-Anticipated Video Games Of 2017
Are you ready for the next Mass Effect?
Winter isn't coming, it's already here. The chilliest, most expensive season of the year has returned, and like clockwork, the usual deluge of seasonal music, last-minute shoppers and frosty mornings are within spitting distance.
But as one year ends, another - potentially better one - is just on the horizon, itching to bring you another round of extremely promising video games the likes of which you've (hopefully) never seen before.
As expected, the major players have already laid claim to various parts of 2017's first few calendar months, the likes of Resident Evil 7 and Mass Effect: Andromeda undoubtedly being the most-anticipated headliners of the year, but as we all know, there are 12 whole months of new releases to look forward too.
Of those we already know about, here are the special 16 that have already generated absurd amounts of anticipation so far...
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16. South Park: The Fractured But Whole
Just as Rocksteady did with the Batman: Arkham series, Ubisoft proved that licensed games don't always have to be regrettable mistakes that cause embarrassment for everyone involved with South Park: The Stick of Truth.
See, that's what happens when the creators of a franchise care enough to have direct involvement with a spin-off product, and it goes without saying that a large part of why the Stick of Truth was so successful is because Trey Parker and Matt Stone consulted with Ubisoft every step of the way. Healthy business relationships people, this is what they can make.
Anyway, despite both having stated that they'd never do a sequel due to the amount of work the original required, here we are once more, awaiting exactly that.
The Fractured But Whole doesn't really need that much gameplay innovation to ensure its success. The original captured the essence of retro RPG gaming brilliantly, and with a new - original - story included, how could it possibly go wrong?