10 Upcoming Video Games We're Most Worried About
Death Stranding is out next month. And we still don't know quite what it even is.
Waiting for a game to come out is a tricky business. You’d think it would be easy, seeing as you just have to sit there and wait, but it’s actually a good deal more complicated than that.
On one hand, you don’t want to overhype a game too much. Sometimes going into a game without knowing much about it can make for a hugely rewarding experience, as everyone who went into Untitled Goose Game blind discovered.
Meanwhile, overhyping can blow up in your face. Haze, Duke Nukem Forever, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II and most recently Anthem can attest to that.
Of course, bad games are bad games whatever the run up to their release is like. However, when expectations get too high, a game is doomed to fail to meet those standards, and thus can be disappointing and great at the same time.
Conversely, the best way to satiate an appetite for an unreleased game is to read up on the features and discuss it, inevitably leading to more hype. It’s a tricky tightrope.
These ten aren’t games that we expect to be bad then; most will probably be rather good. But with controversy, delays, or dangerous overhype, they’re all making us slightly nervous.
10. Watch Dogs: Legion
If the first two Watch Dogs games lived up Ubisoft's claims, they would have been two of the greatest of all time, revolutionising open world infrastructure and defining this generation. In the end, you could turn traffic lights red and make steam pipes burst beneath cars chasing you. Underwhelming doesn't quite cover it.
Thankfully, Ubisoft seem to have learned their lesson this time around, but it's still a fair way from Watch Dogs: Legion's release date of 6 March 2020. The cycle may yet repeat itself all over again when Christmas is out of the way.
Aside from the fear of Ubisoft overselling and failing to deliver with Watch Dogs: Legion, the setting is also a potential cause for concern. A commentary on a CCTV obsessed Britain, Ubisoft deserves respect for tackling a social issue rarely addressed in the medium. In terms of social issues affecting Britain right now though, it’s low down the list of priorities.
Between now and then we could have an election, Brexit, Brexit delayed, Brexit cancelled... the Britain and civil unrest being satirised may be unrecognisable by March. With British politics having never been more fractured and frantic, will it already be dated upon release?