Dynasty Warriors 3

RSS

The Top 7... series run into the ground

They had it. They lost it. Here they are

Words: Christian Nutt, GamesRadar US

1 Comments

Email this article

Bookmark

Bookmark this Article

A game is made, and it turns out to be good. The game comes out, becomes popular... and then becomes a series. Usually, we have nothing bad to say about that. Until, inevitably, things start to slide. The creator that made the game what it was bails. Or it fizzles in the transition from one console to another. Maybe the staff just forgot what made it great. Whatever the problem, we've selected seven of the biggest offenders, for your displeasure.

Tomb Raider

Ah, Tomb Raider. If we'd written this piece a couple of years ago, Lara Croft's increasingly terrible games would be number one - no contest. The adventure was over.

But last year, Tomb Raider: Legend re-energized gamers, thanks to its wise decision to go back to the well the series original drew from. When you think about it, the developers just did the obvious: made Lara raid tombs. We got the same thing we'd always wanted - it did the job right. We could even ignore the dire motorcycle bits.

If our optimism is being taxed right now, it's because the next game in the series is a cash-in instead of something new. Don't you think it's a better idea to let the series catch its breath before whoring it out?

But we give a lot of credit to Legend for setting the series straight, and for that reason, it's rocketed back down the charts to a position of honor at the tail end. It's mostly here just as a warning to Eidos: don't try any funny stuff. We're still watching you.

1 Comment

katwood92 - 2 months 1 day ago

How come game makers even bother to make sequels if the suck? Do they think that gamers are drooling morons that will blindly buy anything that bears the name of a game that they enjoyed? If you're going to do something, do it right. It also doesn't make much business sense. Games only make money if people buy them and anyone who knows anything about games generally don't buy crap sequels. So why make something peopl aren't going to buy? It doesn't make any sort of sense at all.

Report

Showing 1-1 of 1 Comments