11 Hugely-Anticipated Video Games You Won't Believe Got Cancelled

6. Eight Days

Throughout the late noughties and following Resident Evil 4's game-changing showcase of third-person shooting, developers were trying to capitalise on its popularity by stuffing each subsequent experience with as many fireworks, physics displays and pyrotechnics as possible - which is actually pretty cyclical when you think of where we are with first-person shooters today.

So in 2005 Sony dropped a trailer that had a really cool Swordfish-style 360º-shot for what became one of that year's most anticipated titles, the gameplay footage of which appeared a year after - only months before Gears of War would define the experience it seemed this was going for.

These days it's easy to look back on the gameplay footage and batch of leaked screens from 2009 as being 'just another shooter', but back in '06 this dropped jaws countrywide. Looking like we were finally going to be able to engage in some John Woo/Matrix-style gunfights where debris and the environment deformed realistically all around as we darted between cover, it could have been a tremendous hit if Sony had seen it through.

Apparently starring Ving Rhames, Gary Oldman and Dennis Hopper and being spread across eight separate states that would tell a story through the titular eight days, in the end the project fell into limbo thanks to Sony stating that they were moving towards online games, and as of then - despite the promotion and star-power - Eight Days just didn't fit in their future lineup.