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Introduction
The video game market is flooded with bad games (trust us, we have to play a lot of them) and somehow many of these awful titles end up getting sequels. Seriously, did the world need “Big Mutha Truckers 2: Truck Me Harder?” Wasn’t the first one horrible enough?
That’s why we’re so amazed whenever we play a great game and it doesn’t get a sequel. When a game leaves us wanting more -- in a good way -- give it to us. Please.
These are our Top 5 games that deserve a sequel. Check them out then tell us which games you think should get a sequel (or two).
Tell us: Which games deserve a sequel?
-- Ken Smith";
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Valve’s action/puzzle game “Portal” is simply one of 2007’s must play-titles of the year.The whole concept of the game is that you can move around inside the levels by shooting portals in the walls, floor and ceiling. When you enter through one hole, you appear out the other. (Think of how the Road Runner could run through the black holes that Wile E. Coyote painted onto rocks and you have an idea of how “Portal” works.) It’s a fun new twist on puzzle games, and it will completely mess with your mind the first time you try it.
Our only complaint about “Portal” is how incredibly short the game is. You only need a few hours to play all the way through it. What we need is a sequel so we can live in this mind-bending universe.
Please!
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\"Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!\"
“Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!” is a game that begs and pleads to have a sequel, and it needs to be on the Nintendo Wii so we can use the motion-sensitive controllers to go head-to-head with the ex-champ. And “ex-champ” is the key here. We don’t want to see the old, fan-friendly champ of the ‘80s. We want to see the freak show Mike Tyson has turned into, face tattoo and all.
What would this sequel include? Well, obviously Tyson would bite your ear off if you let him get too close to you in the ring. But before you even get to the main event, you have to go against him and his entire posse at the pre-fight weigh-in. And of course, if you lose to Tyson there should be a cut-scene of him eating your children.
OK, maybe that cut-scene isn’t necessary, but the ear munching stays!
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\"Beyond Castle Wolfenstein\"
Muse Software’s “Beyond Castle Wolfenstein” had you working undercover as a Nazi, making your way through Hitler’s private bunker in order to locate him, plant a bomb, and make it out of there before it went off. It was an amazingly fun game, especially for it’s time –and for how crappy its graphics were.
We think this game would be a prime candidate, not for a sequel, but for a remake with today’s 3-D graphics. Could you imagine how cool it would be to creep around the bunker’s halls, taking out SS guards one by one? Who wouldn’t want to play this game?
(And yes, we know that there are already many sequels in the “Wolfenstein” series, and that in fact “Beyond Castle Wolfenstein” isn’t even the first game in the franchise. But so what? We love killing Nazis.)
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\"Conker: Live and Reloaded\"
We would probably play any game that featured a lead character as cute and cuddly as Conker the squirrel. But add in Conker’s foul-mouth, his penchant for drinking, and his fondness for high-powered weapons and you know that we’re going to be all over that title.
The last time we saw our favorite squirrel was in “Conker: Live and Reloaded” for the original Xbox. Unfortunately, that game was pretty much a remake of the old Nintendo 64 title “Conker’s Bad Fur Day,” but with a new multiplayer mode added. We think it’s about high time we see him in a new adventure.
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If there ever was a game that needed a sequel, it would be “Joust.” Midway’s arcade classic had the gamer play as a knight, jousting in midair while riding on the back of an ostrich. Yes, an ostrich.
Think of the possibilities for a “Joust” sequel. You could simply render the original game in 3-D and you would have an instant classic. Or you could turn the franchise into a “Grand Theft Auto” clone and have people flying and fighting around an open-world environment, sort of like “Crackdown” with ostriches instead of superhero cops.
“Crackdown” with ostriches? We need to play this game!
Tell us: Which games are crying out for a sequel?
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