The Top 7... Franchise failures

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Take a look back at some of the industry's most fantastically disastrous non-starters

1. Advent Rising
2005 | Xbox, PC

The game: A sweeping, big-budget sci-fi shooter with vague Mormon undertones, Advent Rising centered on Gideon Wyeth, a young pilot swept up in an intergalactic war between aliens who worship humans and aliens who want to destroy them. The action was fairly standard third-person shooting and brawling fare, but later in the game, Gideon discovered latent psychic powers that completely threw off the balance of combat and hinted at the promise of new gameplay mechanics that would never come to fruition.

Above: Funny how this almost never happens in real life

Mikel Reparaz
Mikel Reparaz
After graduating from college in 2000 with a BA in journalism, I worked for five years as a copy editor, page designer and videogame-review columnist at a couple of mid-sized newspapers you've never heard of. My column eventually got me a freelancing gig with GMR magazine, which folded a few months later. I was hired on full-time by GamesRadar in late 2005, and have since been paid actual money to write silly articles about lovable blobs.