10 Video Games With The Biggest Downgrade From Reveal To Launch

The Division released in 2016 and was Ubisoft's first real attempt to jump on the games-as-a-service bandwagon. While it suffered the usual rocky launch and went through plenty of growing pains, the team managed to turn it into one of the better live services games around.

Let's go back to when the game was revealed, to a 2013 trailer that borderline blew minds.

The reveal began with a CGI trailer of a snowy, desolate New York City, then transitioned into gameplay of a Division agent who opened up a unique map that, rather than going to a menu screen, actually sprawled around the player within the game. The agent then met-up with a couple more players and went to an NYPD precinct for a mission.

Here we see a shootout that leaves reactive holes in police cars, gorgeous lighting effects, and the agent using a wrist watch as his menu. The agents work their way inside the precinct where we see more jaw-dropping lighting, none of which was in the final product.

The Division launched 3 years after that trailer and was missing several features, much of the dynamic lighting, and featured a less detailed New York. Without doubt one of Ubisoft's worst downgrades.