10 Worst Video Game Downgrades That Pissed Off EVERYONE

10. Watch Dogs

Best to get the most obvious one out of the way first...

Ubisoft's 2014 open world GTA-clone, Watch Dogs, is actually a decent game.

With a modest fanbase and a sequel, the series will soon become a trilogy with the release of Watch Dogs: Legion.

The initial 2012 reveal, however, promised so much more than we eventually got, because for a while it looked as if Watch Dogs was going to be the 'next big thing' in third person, open world gaming.

The premise of hacking the very infrastructure of a fully realised, fully populated city, disrupting and bending to your will everything from security cameras to traffic lights to help enact Aiden Pearce's revenge did materialise to an extent, just nowhere near the level we expected.

The presentation, too, was diluted in the years between reveal and launch.

Gone were the detailed and varied textures.

Absent was the complex and stunning dynamic weather.

Missing were the truly next-gen lighting and particle effects.

Ubisoft had shown their hand too soon, over-promising on what was realistically achievable.

Had they not, and had the initial reveal been a more conservative representation of what we were eventually going to get, history may have been kinder to Watch Dogs.