GamesRadar

123 games with untapped franchise potential

Join

» Profile
» Inbox
» Updates
» My People
» My Games
» Comments

» Games
» News
» Previews
» Reviews
» Features
» Cheats
» Guides
» Videos
» Screens
» Forums

» Follow GR on Twitter

» More Modern Warfare 2!

» Gallery of hotness
» Sexy Fan Art
» Sexy Cosplay
» Sexiest Game Gurus

Uncharted 2

Halo 3: ODST

Brutal Legend

Arkham Asylum

Fallout 3

Pokémon

Grand Theft Auto IV

» All GamesRadar videos

123 games with untapped franchise potential

The best games that never got the sequels they deserve

Words: GamesRadar US

« Back to Article

164 Comments

Order Comments: Newest First | Oldest First

Gahmah - 7 months 4 hours ago

Didn't in the best ending of Indigo Prophecy what's his name became imbued with the power of god or something? And why no zone of the enders? It was pretty cool...also was really saddening to see I played the vast majority of these.... WHY DOES EVERYTHING I LOVE DIE?

Report

drummerteenX - 7 months 3 hours ago

Woah, where is Advent Rising in this list??? While a whole lot of stuff needed fixing in that game (ridiculously long BAD vehicle sequences and seemingly unbeatable boss battles), there was too much right with it to have those hamper it. The story was epic, written by the sci-fi master Orson Scott Card and the combat was fresh and fun. I really want to know what happens, as the game ends on a big cliff hanger and I want to throw more aliens into the void with flick-targeting.

Report

iKOemos - 7 months 3 hours ago

I really want a Black Sequel cos Black was one of the finest FPSes I've ever played. Sure it was light on story and heavy on Gun Porn (the latter not a bad thing), a story can blossom in the sequel. GET ON IT CRITERION!

Report

Sonneilon - 7 months 3 hours ago

Was Full Throttle the game where the dude sez funny things like, "I wouldn't put my lips on that..."?

Fantasvision. Just bought it for $4.

I enjoyed Auto Modellista. Very cool look tho cel-shaded got dissed pretty hard.

Seaman and Ka! I had forgotten all about those! Chakan needs a sequel? Are you joking? I didn't think it was all that but uh, ok. Chaos Legion was kinda fun, but I had no idea what I was doing.

Burning Rangers. I never played it but I heard it was cool all those years ago!

Dragon Force is one of my fave games of all time! I didn't port the sequel but man...

AND thank you for mention Legend of Dragoon. I LOVED that game. I emailed Sony back when about a sequel and they said, "it's just not in the works". That was maybe a year after it was released. :( I may NOT agree with all of the choices that needs sequels but what I've listed are pretty much what I'd be interested in.

Report

Ramen_Soup - 7 months 3 hours ago

What about another possible Jet set Radio or maybe that gamecube game Second sight i think it was called

Report

NanoElite666 - 7 months 2 hours ago

Man, I've been wishing (although I very well know that it probably won't ever happen) for a sequel to Psi-Ops ever since I beat the first game years ago. That game was awesome.

Seeing another Black game would be nice. Just imagine how wonderfully Criterion could make crap blow up on current-gen consoles.

And Full Throttle... Ah, I spent tons of time playing that game when I was younger. Favorite part, hands down, is releasing an entire box of mechanical toy bunnies into the minefield at once while "Ride of the Valkyries" plays.

Report

juanguitar7 - 7 months 2 hours ago

I would love to see a sequel to Star Wars Bounty Hunter. Maybe playing as the son, Boba Fett... That was an awesome game...

Report

RedOutlive10 - 7 months 2 hours ago

Missed a few for me (and what the hell @ jaws?).

Dungeon Keeper
Freelancer
Little Big Adventure (emphasis on this one)
Star Wars: Jedi Knight
Max Payne
Conker's Bad Fur Day
Road Rash
Toejam & Earl
Crusader: No regret
Silent Hunter
Star Fox (a true SF game, please)
Virtua Cop 2 (c'mon, the civilians jumping in front of the criminals were hilarious)
Earthworm Jim
Battletanx
007 Goldeneye (or at least make a new 007 game like the N64 one was...)
Serious Sam
Marvel vs Capcom
Mechwarrior
Golden Axe
Rayman 2 the great scape
Chrono Trigger (again, a real sequel is needed... or at least a remake)
No One Lives Forever 2
Age of Mithology

Well my bad. Meant to be short but I guess nostalgia got me, badly.

Report

ikillchicken - 7 months 2 hours ago

Mischief Makers - 'Possibly the most underrated and widely ignored game on the N64'

OMG yes! I love that game. I didn't realize anyone actually agreed with me. ;)

Report

Flashkicker - 7 months 1 hour ago

My love for Primal Rage just came back in a flash. As my second name for the NES, I believed I called it Street Fighter but with dinosaurs. That game sill doesn't have a sequel? I won't stand for this nonsense.

I think Lifeline should stay dead though (Broken Pixels episode 19). Anybody get that?

Report

VoodooPanda - 7 months 1 hour ago

Voodoo Vince should be on the list. Maybe The Suffering as well.

Report

Romination - 7 months 1 hour ago

Mischief Makers. Dude. I rented that game religiously. Man... it was soooo cooool...

and 435 stole my addition. Nex-Gen Mutant League Football. just that sentence makes me wet..

I think Alien Hominid deserves a sequel. I said it.

AND ENTER THE MATRIX SHOULD TOTALLY BE ITS OWN FRANCHISE!!!

recaptcha: with goons. which enter the matrix would have.

Report

XMalinthebeastX - 7 months 1 hour ago

What!? No Fighters Destiny!?

Report

destinyshand - 6 months 29 days ago

i think advent rising needs it's swquel, it's too bad mejesco's dead but that game was a brilliant game. it starts as a semi-standard third person space shooter which put it ahead of it's time already, then there was the evolving characters that started out as normal humans and ended with super powers. yes the game was short and perhaps too ahead of it's time, i say bring that trilogy(as a single game) to something like the ps3 and kick up the graphics a little and you'll have a brilliant masterpiece on your hands, also i would love to get the main female's psp game too. advent rising's story was truly exciting and orson scott card really threw a nice curveball once you reached the epilouge of the first game... some devs gotta see how good this game was and go the distance with it

Report

Clownsarescary - 6 months 29 days ago

Thank you, GR, thank you for taking me back to my childhood.

Oh, and for the next list (if you haven't already exhausted your resources with this mammouth one), what about Silver for the PC?

Report

chainchomp - 6 months 29 days ago

What did happen to Alisia Dragoon on the mega drive?
It didnt even make it onto the so called ultimate collection.

Report

celticlance - 6 months 29 days ago

What about Chromehounds, that game had almost limitless potential and alot of devoted players. Sega let this one slip. Also what about that game Desert strike or whatever it was with the helicopter where you went around blowing up crap. Some of these titles are so old I doubt some would remember them, but worth a second look.

Report