11 Long-Delayed Games That Disappointed

This week saw the release of Crackdown 3, a game that Xbox One owners have been waiting for since the release of the system. Developers Sumo Digital had lots of big promises for the latest-gen installment in their super-powered open world franchise — most notably a city of New Providence hosted in the cloud that would be fully destructible, allowing players to make their mark in new and hilarious ways. That didn’t really pan out – although the game (which came out last week) is perfectly fine, it sure doesn’t live up to the promises and delays that went into making it.Sometimes delays are necessary — look at Nintendo announcing that Metroid Prime 4 isn’t shaping up like they wanted it to, so they’re spending more time in the kitchen. But sometimes no matter how much polish you use, a turd is still a turd. Here’s a catalog of 11 games that were delayed a long time and still came out disappointing. Sony’s Gran Turismo racing series have always been famous for incredible attention to detail, with developers traveling to racetracks to record engine noises for every single car in the game. So it’s not surprising that as the game moved to more advanced systems, it took longer and longer to produce each installment. Gran Turismo 4 hit the PS2 in 2005, and prior to that point each game had taken three years or so to drop. But when the PS3 was announced in 2006, one notable absence was a new Turismo. The game was in progress, but a first trailer wasn’t shown until 2009. It finally dropped after a few more delays the next year, but people weren’t happy about the results of five years of work. One of the biggest complaints was that the “1000 cars” in the game were made up of 200 new vehicles and 800 lower-poly PS2 models that had just been upscaled.