Top 10: Disappointments of 2007

VideoGamer.com's pick of the biggest gaming disappointments of the year.

Some say 2007 has been the greatest year ever in videogame history. We've had some top games spread generously throughout the year, a console launch and some pretty amazing headline-grabbing announcements. But not everything that made the news in 2007 has been blessed with brilliance. So in memory of this, we've compiled our picks for 2007's biggest disappointments in a special VideoGamer.com Top 10. Strap yourself in, take a deep breath, and ready yourself for some truly shocking stuff.

Assassin's Creed was good, but it wasn't 10 out of 10 good

The only reason Ubisoft's stealth assassination sci-fi historical action game is one of 2007's top 10 disappointments is because it was hyped so much we all thought it was going to be game of the year. The gorgeous screen shots, the adrenaline pumping teaser trailers and the promise of true open world gameplay made most of us shake with excitement. In the end, we got a fairly boring, repetitive, but lovely-looking action game that didn't live up to the expectations everyone had for it. We're not saying it's not a good game, indeed Tom gave it an eight out of 10 in his review, but it just wasn't everything we had hoped. Sigh.

GTA IV delayed from 2007 to sometime between February 1 and April 30 2008

Oh crap. That was the collective gasp from every gamer in the world when it emerged that super hyper advanced alpha hyped gangster sandbox kill-em-up Grand Theft Auto IV wouldn't be coming out until parent company Take-Two's second financial quarter of 2008. Queue girly Take That have broken up wailing from every GTA fan with a PC and an Internet connection. Aware of the storm the news would stir up, Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two said: "We all recognize that perfecting the game is vital and I can assure everyone it will be worth the wait. We owe it to the game's millions of fans, to our dedicated development team, and to our shareholders to make sure that Grand Theft Auto IV is a groundbreaking gaming experience that takes maximum advantage of next generation technology". All we can say is, if GTA IV isn't 10 out of 10 stuff, it'll be making an appearance in VideoGamer.com's Top 10 Gaming Disappointments of 2008.