16 Most Disappointing Video Games Of 2017

10. Ghost Recon: Wildlands

Alongside Rainbow Six as a once-great franchise now churning out barely passable releases (though Siege has been patched into one of the finest shooters of the generation... it just took two years), Ghost Recon's latest was yet another patchwork quilt approach to game design, as Ubisoft have done all too much of this year.

From The Division's loot grind to Far Cry's peppering the map with scores of outposts to clear out, Ghost Recon's biggest problem was some overwhelmingly amateurish animation and collision detection. The sheer reliability of its broken nature was both hilarious and saddening, seeing you bound down a mountainside on the back of a motorbike, or awkwardly repeat-clamber your way up another.

Factor in a campaign that tried to serve both OTT cartoon character villains right next to the harsh realities of drug smuggling inside Bolivian villages, and you had a complete lack of identity that compounded all the game's worst elements. Shooting was indeed satisfying - and the new PvP mode is a great way to take on fireteams with friends - but there was no escaping Ghost Recon's weirdly budget feel, despite being coded by one of the wealthiest developers on the planet.