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123 games with untapped franchise potential

The best games that never got the sequels they deserve

Words: GamesRadar US

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aequitas13 - 6 months 29 days ago

+1 for:

Blast Corps, Flashback, Syndicate, Shadow of the Colossus

Where's:
Thief, No one Lives Forever, and Jakal???

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xamox - 6 months 29 days ago

Here some some I think need to be added:

1 - Crusader: No Remorse
2 - Advent Rising
3 - Out of this world.

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Cybermaster - 6 months 29 days ago

The World Ends With You needs a sequal, or else I'm storming into Squeenix HQ and using my mastered Ice Risers pin on them to spell certain doom.

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Kruse - 6 months 29 days ago

What about Freelancer? That game was worthy of a sequel.

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kamikaz3e124 - 6 months 29 days ago

OH SNAP the dude in God Hand is making the baddie TOTALLY suck balls!!1

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noofer7 - 6 months 29 days ago

hmm...

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Luigi49 - 6 months 28 days ago

i just beat shadow of the colossus and it was awsome. epic boss battle that require you to do more than botton mashing to beat them and it is long overdo for a sequal.

PS Wander turn into a demon baby so who would be the main character, maybe the girl that came back to life in the end

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gmilf71 - 6 months 28 days ago

dude when i saw darkwatch, okami, and kinetica, i got sad. why did those games not have sequels????

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Mirako - 6 months 28 days ago

Tech Romancer was a great game, I would love to see a sequel.

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jackrabbitslims - 6 months 28 days ago

War of the Monsters! One of my fav multiplayer games

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pogo - 6 months 28 days ago

he only game i played on this list is star wars republic commando 3 years ago

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mangloid - 6 months 28 days ago

The one game I wish a sequel would happen for that's not on this list is Snatcher.

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Biiaaatch - 6 months 27 days ago

Those were great games at their times, hope some of them will get their sequel. Nice list, although there are many games left behind. Few of them, just out of my head right now...

- The lost Vikings (PC)
- Deus Ex (PC)
- Comanche M.O. (PC)
- Stunts (PC)
- Street Fighter (Amiga)

It's difficult to recall the names of a lot of games :)

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CNnegative1 - 6 months 27 days ago

few games here i loved..

Armed and Dangerous - soldiers staring at the ground as a land shark came up to eat them

Star Wars: Republic Commando - star wars you say? Fps you say? it was win

Jetforce Gemini - played the hell out of it when i was a kid... was never bright enough to beat it though :'(

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cart00n - 6 months 27 days ago

You forgot Beyond Good and Evil (I know Ubisoft says they're working on a sequel, but it's not here yet, is it?), and Voodoo Vince - there was a platformer with style and wit to spare.

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DawgsFan117 - 6 months 27 days ago

Urban Chaos and Blast Corp where the two that stood out the most to me.

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SandroTheMaster - 6 months 27 days ago

@aequitas13 No One Lives Forever did make a sequel. And so did Thief (which even had TWO sequels).

@Biiaaatch For someone who could actually appreciate Deus Ex, you have a peculiar name... anyway, Deus Ex did have a sequel... and the sequel is the reason it died... sigh. Alright, feel free to ignore it adamantly.

@CNnegative1 Well, the Jedi Knight series was already an Star Wars FPS before Republic Commando, and I'm pretty sure even the latest Third-Person games of the franchise have the option of playing them FPS style, they're just better at third because of the emphasis on Light Saber duels.

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Biiaaatch - 6 months 27 days ago

@SandroTheMaster
Yes, u are right about the sequel, but like they wrote in this article, some of these games never got a decent sequel. Deus Ex is just one of those...

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inepticon - 6 months 27 days ago

I still have a Thrill Kill lid sticker on my old Playstation. One character would tear the limbs off of the opponent and beat him to death with them. It also featured a solid 4 player fighting experience. I was so psyched for that game and was bummed when Activision aquired the publishing rights to the game. The game became Wu-Tang Shaolin Style which turned out to be a blast anyway. R.I.P. Big Baby Jesus.

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