10 Most Anticipated 2020 Video Games

After burning a hole in your wallet during those Christmas and January sales, what better way to recover financially than by looking ahead at all the huge video games that are going to bleed your funds dry over the next 12 months?

2020 is set to be one of the biggest years in recent memory, with the launch of the next generation of consoles already making it one for the history books - even if all the games that come out beforehand are absolute trash.

Not that there's even a remote chance of that happening. With familiar franchises like Watch Dogs and Halo debuting their latest outings, fresh IP like Ghost of Tsushima set to make a major splash, and highly-anticipated sequels like The Last of Us Part II and Doom Eternal offering return tickets to some beloved worlds, all signs point to a high-quality blockbuster year. One we couldn't be more excited for.

So as much as we'd like to put WB Montreal's Batman: Arkham game on this list - along with Elden Ring, whatever the hell Rocksteady is doing, and Assassin's Creed: Ragnarok - we're sticking with officially-confirmed releases for now, but even then, there's still plenty of good stuff to get pumped up about in 2020.

Release Date: TBC

Watch Dogs: Legion was originally slated for March 2020, but was recently delayed to an unspecified date within the next fiscal year. We're guessing that it'll be a next-gen launch title this winter, just like Ubisoft intended for the very first game in the series.

While neither of the two Watch Dogs games resonated with players in the way that their pre-release hype pointed towards, Legion is such an exciting step forward for the series' formula that it's hard to not get hyped up all over again.

Legion will once again focus on hacking, allowing the player to cause an untold amount of technology-driven headaches for the tyrannical law enforcement firm Albion, but this time around - instead of controlling a single protagonist - you can take control of pretty much any AI character you encounter in the vast city of London.

The game will use procedural generation to fill every street, alleyway and Greggs bakery with unique citizens, each with different strengths and abilities that you can use in your mission to liberate London. The only rub is that once these characters die, they're gone for good, so there's a risk-reward system at play here which means you'll have to be careful with how you use your recruits.

If Ubisoft's reach can match its ambition then Legion should be an amazing experience, and with Far Cry 2 director Clint Hocking at the helm, this might be the first Watch Dogs game that feels groundbreaking as opposed to pedestrian.