12 Most Disastrously Disappointing Video Game Launches In History

6. Watch Dogs

You can't talk about anything being disappointing or disastrous, and not mention Watch Dogs.

Ubisoft's tagline for the entire project was "The next generation starts here", and you can pretty much blame this single title for the overwhelmingly "meh" reaction to the new hardware overall. After all, people were pinning all their hopes on Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed followup as some all-singing, all-wish granting concoction of pure joyous escapism, so when it fell short of even being a decent, fun game, the pitchforks came out in full.

Mostly though, this all centred around graphics, and the fact the game had changed considerably since its first unveiling at E3 2012.

It didn't help that Ubi had left the unused render files (which drastically and instantly increased the visual quality) intact on the PC version, meaning modders restored them with a click, and proved the game worked totally fine in this higher-res state.

Caught out by their own fans and unable to adequately clarify why this was the case other than "optimisation", Watch Dogs went down in history as one of the most disappointing games of all time.