8 Video Games That Turned Out Nothing Like We Were Promised

5. Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

The follow-up to the masterpiece that was Metal Gear Solid, subtitled Sons of Liberty, might well have been the most eagerly awaited video game of all time in the build-up to its release. The thought of getting to play as the awesome Solid Snake for another mission - on the PS2, no less - had gamers giddy with excitement. And playing as Snake wasn't something they just assumed would be happening, either: creator Hideo Kojima purposely ensured that all the marketing material, trailers and gameplay footage featured around everybody's favourite covert badass. And then it happened. A couple of hours into the game, Snake vanished. What was going on? To the surprise of millions of shocked fans, Raiden emerged, and the results were not pretty. Yes, despite the fact that gamers had been led to believe that they'd play as Snake for the sum of Metal Gear Solid 2, it turned out to have all been a sort of ruse: Snake was cast into the backseat as a secondary character, and gamers got to play as the whiny, long-haired man-child Raiden, who spent most of the game arguing with his girlfriend over the radio. Thankfully, Metal Gear Solid 2 - despite its willingness to talk, talk, talk - was a great game anyway, so we got over it.