8 Upcoming Video Games That Have Already Made Crippling Mistakes

7. Days Gone Having ZERO Identity

Even though it received an awkwardly long reveal at Sony's PlayStation Experience conference in 2016, most people came away from the lengthy trailer wondering why exactly they should care. With its only defining feature being that it could cram an entire screen full of zombies, despite the developer's claims to the contrary, there was nothing shown that set the game apart from any of Sony's other first-party exclusives.

And even though a second trailer at this year's E3 boasted a larger focus on the story, it still managed to inspire only a little more excitement than the previous reveal. The industry has given us enough post-apocalyptic stories, and the trailers for Days Gone haven't indicated that the game is going to push the genre into any new territory.

But the problems of the title's genre redundancy run deeper than the story and setting, as the rudimentary mix of stealth and regular third-person shooter gameplay also feels stale in 2017 where the market has been over-saturated with open world games all riffing on the same mechanics.

There's still time to prove everyone wrong, but right now Days Gone is stuck in the shadow of better games that came before it.