10 Hotly-Anticipated Video Games That Were Abandoned After Launch

2. Watch Dogs

Man, the early years of this generation really were just a series of gut-punches, weren't they? We thought 2016 was a bad year for deaths, but 2014's gaming output had every major triple-A title bury itself alive as we looked on in horror.

The annoying thing is, Watch Dogs' base feel of gunplay, hacking and stealth was fine. Problems arose more from the amount of delays Ubisoft kept putting out, the fact that nothing about this "next generation" title looked remotely impressive, the realisation that the game had been significantly downgraded in comparison to E3 footage from yesteryear, and that main-man Aiden Pearce was about as fun as getting jabbed in the kidneys.

Ubi would try again with the actually-pretty-damn-solid Watch Dogs 2, but Watch Dogs as a 'brand' was more like a warning sign to turn the other way.