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The Top 7... series run into the ground

They had it. They lost it. Here they are

Words: Christian Nutt, GamesRadar US
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Spy Hunter

This series had been dead. For years. A hugely popular classic arcade game, it hit just about every console and PC available in the '80s. The concept was straightforward: a car with guns on it. Get from point A to point B. Shoot things. Simple.

We were pleasantly surprised when the series reappeared in 2001 on the Xbox and PS2 with the same basic concept. No filler: just drive from point A to point B while shooting the crap out of anything that moves. The car transforms or something, but that's basically it. Everybody liked it.

Somehow, two years later, it didn't make sense anymore. Spy Hunter 2 was mediocre. And last year's Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run was worse. Three games, three developers... and by the end of a generation, a series that had surprised us by rolling out of the scrapyard crashed right back into it.

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katwood92  - 1 year 2 months 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.
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DirtyRainMan  - 11 months 14 days ago 
Yes...yes they do and no...no it doesn't.
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twstd757  - 10 months 6 days ago 
didn't dynasty warriors start off as a fighting game...i could have sworn
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IAmTheWii  - 7 months 7 days ago 
Wow.. This list is hideously out of date.
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noofer7  - 6 months 29 days ago 
IAmTheWii: Dude, it's a really old article. Look at the dates on the other comments.
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Cwf2008  - 4 months 13 days ago 
Hmm i think Bungie needs to take a look at this seeing as their whoring out the already horrible halo series
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NeoKef  - 3 months 24 days ago 
Months and years later, we get amazing Megaman 9, the Battle Network has died and been replaced by Starforce, Sonic still sucks, DW: Strikeforce is said to be the best DW and is being ported to 360 and PS3, Tomb Raider still sucks, and Viewtifull Joe is now in another vs. Capcom game.

If anything I disagree with Nutt on,I hate Power Up and ZX because they look too cartoonish while X series was great till 6 where everything went downhill very fast (5 wasn't great, but not as bad as 6) and 8 was shit.

Christian Nutt probably got a lot of hate mail and "I told you so!!!!!" emails because of this.
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Cyberninja  - 3 months 24 days ago 
@neokef i happen to love zx and its not cartoonish because most megaman games are 2d
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AuthorityFigure  - 3 months 23 days ago 
All those games are just a waste of space and gamers' time. Get your crap products off the shelves, you douchebag publishers.
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reyalejandro13  - 3 months 22 days ago 
Somebody should just take all the good original games, compile them on one disc(somehow), then watch the money roll in.
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ulmxn  - 3 months 19 days ago 
sonic heroes is the only half- recent decent one
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