Harry Slater writes:
Sometimes, videogame sequels fail to capitalise on the excellent work begun by their elder brethren, be it a change of developer, a shift in focus or a bizarre and not required change of style. Here are some that failed to match their predecessors.
With the Perfect Dark reboot set to launch later this year, it's time to look back at Perfect Dark Zero, nearly 20 years later.
At the rate xbox is going you'll have another 20 years to play the original before the reboot arrives
Remember the days of four-player couch co-op? The Wealth of Geeks team certainly does. This list brings us back to the golden years of the original Xbox with the best four-player games that were available.
BLG writes, "There are many fantastic and iconic weapons in game history, but some are significantly more memorable than others. When we think of iconic game weapons, these are the top 20 that come to mind."
You forgot one and it's a doozy. The weapon is kindness in undertale. :) defeats countless enemies.
How could have possibly screwed up Perfect Dark Zero.
I knew it. MGS2? Max Payne 2? It's not april fools.
Perhaps they fall short, but very few of these indeed are actually bad games.
Although I have to agree with a lot of points...
MGS2 imo set the stage for a stupidly complex story. I do not mind complexity, I mind complexity for the sake of it. The entire thing is a shambles of misinformation by the end especially compared to it's narratively tighter predecessor.
Deus Ex... This game imo was completely ruined. Nowhere near the scope of the first with nowhere near the depth. It did not justify the graphical upgrade and meaningless physics. And to top it off, it ran like crap and still runs like crap.
Halo 2 helped perpetrate an egregious crime in gaming today: cliffhanger endings. If you think about it, these days it's almost a given that a new IP won't end with the first game. There's no effort put forth to suggest any kind of completion and that's f*cking lazy imo. Like Halo 2, most shooters now sacrifice a complete story and rely on MP to get by.
What was wrong with Max Payne? And it might be time to finally get over Raiden. Seriously, let it go.
BTW, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Medal of Honour, even Doom, all proved FPS's could work on a console before Halo came along.
God, the first game was awesome, no doubt, even with the copy and paste level design, but lets not rewrite history, ok.
Where is modern warfare 2 on that list?