10 Misleading Video Game Ads That Lied To Get Your Money

10. Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain

What you were promised: The 'missing link', the 'ultimate ending', the 'final piece of the puzzle' when it comes to how Big Boss went from hero to villain. What you got: A ton of cut content, a near-mute protagonist and a last minute plot twist you could argue makes the whole thing irrelevant. The commercial hook and entire point of MGS V's existence was supposed to focus on how Big Boss went from the hero at the close of Snake Eater through Peace Walker, into the monologuing terrorist-funding maniac of the first two Metal Gears. We saw multiple adverts alluding to one particular event that drove him over the edge, saw a blood-soaked Snake standing next to burning soldiers, caught glimpses of future characters like Liquid Snake making an appearance, and even had Snake kneeling in a scorched African village, presumably following a harrowing event. In reality, none of these things happened, or were even talked about. Mission 'Shining Lights, Even In Death' shows Snake forced to kill his own men due to a viral infection (to which he randomly delivers a heartfelt monologue and rubs their ashes on his face to hammer home 'the feels'), but it's immediately neutralised by the realisation that this was at the hands of Skull Face, not any world power of Governmental faction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK7SeYf8zxs A breakdown of every cut piece of content is compiled over here, as there's a ton of it. Sufficed to say the decision to remove veteran voice actor David Hayter, spread the plot across a handful of story missions that trigger irrespective of each other and ultimately go nowhere near why fans wanted the game in the first place, is a massive disappointment that'll weigh over MGS V's existence forevermore.