Feature: The Top 21 Games that Didn't Need Sequels! Subscribe to this RSS feed

Numbers 10 to 6!

10- Serious Sam

In a marketplace that was inundated with over-thought shooters, Serious Sam made his mark by delivering a straight shot of adrenaline. Unfortunately, the thing about adrenaline is that a second dose is rarely needed. Still, Croteam has continued to churn out serious sequels that offer little else besides more shit to shoot.

9-Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic

After creating perhaps the best Star Wars game of all time, Bioware handed off development of the second to Obsidian, which delivered a notoriously unfinished sequel that couldn't match up to the original in any regard. Bioware passed up the sequel to create the slightly less underwhelming Jade Empire. This Mass Effect does look good however, but we've heard hide nor hair of a third KOTOR title. Then again, when was the last time anyone cared to ask?

8- Lumines

Lumines essentially perfected its formula the first time around. Go ahead and try to think of one thing that Lumines 2 added to the formula. Go ahead, we'll wait. At least Tetris 2 tried to be a bit different, even if it completely failed. New songs and skins? Great job, Q Entertainment. You managed to make people spend $40 on a weekend worth of work.

7- Metal Gear Ac!d

In Metal Gear Acid, Snake sneaks up behind a guard and stops cold like an idiot because he forgot he ran out of weapon cards. The only thing more insulting than translating Metal Gear's stealth action to a cumbersome card game was Konami's decision to develop Metal Gear Ac!d 2 ahead of an actual PSP Metal Gear.

6- Katamari Damacy

Nothing can be said about We Love Katamari that hasn't already been said about Katamari Damacy, literally. It's the same goddamn game with new things to pick up. Wow-freakin-wee. Me and My Katamari, Beautiful Katamari... still nothing new (half-assed online features don't count). It's really sad that one of the greatest ideas in gaming history is being sullied by uninventive sequels. Stop the rolling, please.