12 Video Games That Drastically Changed Between Reveal And Release

9. Halo 5: Guardians

Graphical downgrades are one thing, but advertising your game so strongly in a particular direction, only for final version to be nothing of the sort? That's a rather big problem.

Halo 5 sat alongside Metal Gear Solid V and Batman: Arkham Knight as a trilogy of titles that all purported to be about a specific plot point - only to drop the ball entirely. Guardians felt particularly egregious though, as an entire viral marketing campaign was set up around the supposed idea that the Master Chief was on the run, with two contrasting adverts showing both the Chief and relative newcomer, Spartan Locke, attempting to take each other out.

What was at the heart of their conflict? Why was Locke convinced the Chief had done something truly awful? How could that make him want to kill the guy?

Well, erm, it didn't matter, because the 'conflict' was MC nonchalantly disobeying an order, being asked to come in, and reconciling with Locke immediately after.

If you were promised a turbine and delivered a mouse fart, that was Halo 5.