10 Upcoming 2019 Video Games We're Incredibly Worried About
Can Days Gone stand out in a crowded field?
As delightful as it is when an unremarkable-looking game turns out to be a massively pleasant surprise, the sad reality of the industry is more often that highly anticipated new titles end up falling far short of expectations.
While 2019 certainly has its shame of games that look set to knock it out of the park - Resident Evil 2 Remake, Devil May Cry 5 and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice should get Q1 off to a strong start alone - there are countless more games that are raising the skeptical eyebrow of suspicion.
These 10 games, each of them widely anticipated by fans both casual and hardcore, are giving off the unmistakable whiff of disappointment before they've even hit stores.
Either due to well-documented production woes, uninspired press previews or the simple weight of expectation involved, these titles feel destined to end up being merely decent at best. And one or two of them could even turn out legitimately trash-tier.
It would of course be lovely to be wrong about every single one of them and be pleasantly surprised, but as the saying goes: expect nothing and you'll never be disappointed. Cynical? Probably. Sensible? Absolutely...
10. Crackdown 3
Release Date: TBA February
Crackdown 3 has of course been a majorly problematic project for Microsoft for several years, after first being announced back at E3 2014 with a planned 2016 release date.
Much was made of the game's cloud computing tech, which would allow an unprecedented level of scenic destruction by pooling rendering resources from the cloud, as opposed to simply utilising the Xbox One's limited hardware.
However, word has become increasingly quiet on the game in recent years, with several shifting release dates prompting many to suspect it was on the cusp of being cancelled by Microsoft.
On the eve of its planned June 2018 release date, Crackdown 3 was again delayed to February 2019, where it will (apparently) premiere as part of Xbox Game Pass.
Needless to say, from the rather underwhelming array of gameplay footage, lukewarm E3 play-test reports and the suspicious lack of recent information about the cloud tech, it feels like this is setting up to be an aggressively mediocre mess of a game.