The official Gameplay Walkthrough Trailer of Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel.
Alongside death, taxes and terrible Adam Sandler movies, video game sequels are just another crushing inevitability of life. Sequels and franchises are the lifeblood of the industry, so you can bet any halfway successful game will be aiming towards at least five more follow-ups and spin-offs in pursuit of more delicious money.
Yet even major franchises tend to run themselves into the ground eventually, where they can either reboot themselves and come back stronger than ever (think the new Tomb Raider games) or stay buried in the past.
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We all have game franchises we love so much that we don't care what others
think. Then there are games that the majority just agree shouldn't exist.
Sometimes it just takes one of these to kill our most beloved series.
It Takes One Game to Kill a Franchise
Street Fighter V and SoulCalibur V come to mind.
^^ i agree .....i also damn totally agree with Halo 2 ...if it wasnt the huge fanbase behind the first one and the huge potential of the franchise would be a dead IP ...HALO CE for me is still an unsurpassed FPS but HALO 2 completely trashed the series to below mediocrity quality levels...i also partly agree with MGS2 ...it had ridiculously convoluted and gibberishy plot considering what masterpiece MGS1 was ...but it narrowly escaped...also RE 4 could be considered such type of game ...RE was doomed after that
Interesting that you would pick Halo 2 over 4 or 5. I have yet to play 5 but as for the other 4, not one of them has disappointed me in terms of story or play mechanics. Halo 1 is a classic and 2 improved on everything while being a cliffhanger and then 3 having the dual story lines was a nice way to bring things to a close (of that trilogy).
4 was an interesting take on trying to create a new story where it had initially ended. The demand of knowing what was going to happen next for MC was what prompted them to come up with the new trilogy. I hope 6 will bring all things to a proper close... for now.
More like it takes one guy or team to kill a franchise. Its not the game fault it's the person behide it. Same with movies.
True, and it depends on what the devs learn from the experience whether or not the franchise can make a comeback. Or even make it's first "comeback". Like with Nier. Nobody cared about the first one, but it's hype all around for the sequel :p
Sometimes a game can kill a franchise even before it starts, if it doesn't perform as well as expected. The Order 1886 is an example of this.
I want to say socom with socom 4 as it was by far the worst but confrontation had its issues also. However compared to socom 4 confrontation was amazing. Still not socom 2 but it worked.
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uuuuuugggghhhh.....i so want to like this, but i have a few qualms. first, what's with the paul greengrass camera shake? i can understand it during your sprint but during normal movement and combat it's just distracting. second, can't we get some better ragdolls for the enemies? some of those deaths looked madden 99 canned. last, and most irrelevant, why does the person demoing the game always suck? they make the character movements and combat look stilted and unnatural. you should be good enough at the game to play it with a little panache, make it look exciting for the masses. if you suck at the game, get a tester to do it for you just for the sake of making your characters look badass. one more thing, you say you want to introduce new characters? then do it. these guys are still "face scarred loyal army vet" and "mercenary wild child". just try a little harder. that was everyone's problem with the first two games.
so what do ya'll people think Yay Or Nay?
I gotta say that I'm not liking what I'm seeing at the moment. It looks like another mindless shooter. The ridiculous "Activate to Win" Overkill mode just proves it.
Hopefully they'll polish it into a better game come release. But for now, I think I'll turn my head back to its forward facing position and carry on into the horizon in search for greater experiences.
I hope this doesn't have the input lag on ps3 like Battlefield3 does on ps3. I hope it isn't the frostbyte 2 engine having troubles with the console.
Even if his game ends up decent is will bomb in sales. Too much competition. Especially since it releases so close to Gears.