Joe from GamersFTW writes about 5 of the best reboots of famous video game franchises, taking a look at how true they are to the source material and the improvements that they made.
MW 2019 is five years old at this point and on previous gen hardware, but it is still the best looking Call of Duty game to date.
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a "cross-mode" narrative that completely obliterated the cohesion in overall story direction. Warzone then "became" the new face of Call of Duty and the franchise completely removed itself from anything remotely creatively "good". It is a pure money machine, so I kinda get why they're doing it....but I personally completely lost interest.
I would love to see Infinity Ward move off CoD and get to make their own product with full control. They clearly have some massive talent in their ranks but it's perverted by Activision's corporate interests.
Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had
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Great article buddy, really nice read!
Man XCOM was the shit! Wish they'd done a good Spyro reboot...
Really enjoyed this. I think tomb raider deserves a place too :) otherwise an awesome list.
What about Sonic The Hedgehog (2006)? I heard that was a great reboot!...Or not. :P
I agree with this list, these are definitely some of the franchise reboots that actually worked.