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6. LittleBigPlanet launch issues

It's not often that a game comes along that promises to let you PLAY WITH EVERYTHING!!! LittleBigPlanet hype reached fever pitch as glowing review after glowing review hit the internet, each carrying the reassuring news: The wait had been well and truly worth it. But then disaster struck. A potentially offensive song had been included on the soundtrack and the game was recalled just days before it was due to hit stores. The October 24 launch was scuppered and gamers were up in arms. When the game finally did arrive, on November 5, we expected LittleBigPlanet's beleaguered beginnings to be over, but in truth they'd only just begun. Numerous server issues meant that for a long time gamers simply couldn't experience the hyped online portion of the game. We can't help but think that some of this negativity hurt sales somewhat. Quality game, but a bitterly disappointing launch.

5. Spore

Hyped as the best game of 2008, everyone expected Will Wright's Spore to be sweeping up at award ceremonies come December. Sadly it's not. Don't get us wrong, Spore is a very good game, a game that we'd recommend you play, but it doesn't push gaming forward in the way we thought it would. Its individual gameplay elements feel like slightly watered down versions of other games, and the final space gameplay is punishingly hard - something that's pretty unforgivable considering Spore was being marketed as if it was the new The Sims. Yes, it's great looking at the various things created by the warped minds of PC gamers across the world, but Spore didn't so much make shockwaves as it did cause a mild disturbance.

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