12 Anticipated Video Games Still To Come In 2017

3. Middle-Earth: Shadow Of War

Another for the "could go either way" category, the once-beloved Shadow of Mordor has taken three years to produce a sequel - though it's one where Warner Bros. fingerprints are all over it.

No longer is this series predicated on exploration, amassing armies and partaking in some of the best stealth and third-person action of the generation - instead all these aspects are filtered through a microtransaction blind loot box system.

Want more orcs to raid the next level settlement? You can just buy them.

Disgustingly, even one of the developer's team members who passed away during the project's conception and was immortalised as an in-game character has been turned into a pre-order bonus. We're at THAT level of "money first, ask questions later".

Still, Shadow of Mordor was spectacular, so how far could this have fallen?