Needless to say, one of my favorite video
game franchises coupled with my love for music was not something I was going to miss.
Not exact matches
Unlike many
franchises that put out a new edition every
couple of years, the sports
game cycle is set to the clock of real life.
The 37 - year - old hung his boots up a
couple of seasons ago and now coaches the U19 side along with his punditry work on BT Sport, but he's been given the royal treatment from the
game franchise with an appearance in their latest edition.
Overall, Madden NFL 16 is a great attempt for EA at keeping the
franchise fresh and if you've missed the last
couple of
games, it's defintiely worth investigating in the new instalment because there's some great gameplay to be found.
Inspired by Hasbro's classic naval - combat
game, Battleship is produced by Brian Goldner and Bennett Schneir of Hasbro (the Transformers and G.I. Joe
franchises), Scott Stuber (Safe House,
Couples Retreat), Film 44's Sarah Aubrey (The Kingdom), along with Duncan Henderson (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, The Perfect Storm).
Over the years, Nintendo fanatics have now not at all times had get entry to to the Call of Duty
franchise, with the previous
couple of video
games within the collection failing to reach for a Nintendo console.
If you're looking to get a
couple of big
franchise games, like Marvel vs. Capcom, Dead Rising, and Devil May Cry, on the cheap, take a look at the full list of
games below.
A
couple of weeks ago Konami launched Metal Gear Survive, the latest
game in the massively popular Metal Gear
franchise.
Developer Twisted Pixel has already cranked out a
couple great
games for Xbox Live Arcade, the critically acclaimed «Splosion Man and The Maw, but in the self - referential and self - deprecating Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley they have finally stumbled upon a truly
franchise - worthy hero.
I think that we have tried to find the right solution for each
franchise individually, and Call of Duty has really benefitted from that annual innovation moment, that annual reengagement moment where a lot of people, who maybe played for a
couple months and had a great experience but moved on to other things, come back and check out the new
game, and there's advantages and disadvantages to both.
Devs put out a
couple of really good
games, and from then on, no matter how inferior they become to their predecessors, the faithful loyal fanboys of the
franchise gush over it no matter what.
RAD has something, they just got ta to re-work
couple things like the balance between cut - scenes and
game - play in the 2nd
game and they could possibly have a
franchise on their hands.
There are a
couple of other SEGA - ish notables on the list, namely Frogger (the original arcade
game was distributed by SEGA - Gremlin), and Double Dragon Neon, which is an excellent reinvention of the Double Dragon
franchise — one which landed quite a few installments on retro SEGA platforms like the Master System and Genesis.
Overall, Madden NFL 16 is a great attempt for EA at keeping the
franchise fresh and if you've missed the last
couple of
games, it's defintiely worth investigating in the new instalment because there's some great gameplay to be found.
3In the last
couple of years, French publisher Third Edition Books released a
couple of well received books on famous video
game franchises.
After an absence from the past
couple of «Ace Attorney»
games, series veteran Maya Fey will return to the
franchise in the upcoming entry, «Spirit of Justice».
In the modern
game industry it seems to be common practice that
game developers just turn around and reboot their
franchises, after a
couple of failed
games or a need to reiginite a
franchise what is better then to remove the previous stories and start fresh.
Microprose produced a number of other
games up until 2001, but when a
couple of
games they were working on got cancelled (XCOM Genesis and XCOM Alliance) we all thought that was it, the
franchise was done for.
This
game was one of many that spawned a great multiplayer
franchise that is enjoyed by kids, university students and grandparents alike, as it's so easy to grab a
couple of controllers and jump straight into the action.
The loading times, the terrible online functionality
coupled with an antiquated single player and a final boss so incredibly cheap it would make King of Fighter's fans giggle — all contribute to Tekken 6 being the only
game I could only recommend to fans of the
franchise.
It's just a
couple of weeks to go before the complete edition of Final Fantasy XV, the latest
game in the long - running JRPG
franchise, comes to PC for the first time.
Aside from a
couple of
game aspects that have been introduced in the first title, Watch Dogs 2 brings in a completely different formula, in an attempt to redeem the
franchise in the eyes of its fans.
Revolution also features a
couple of
franchise first offerings; a brand - new Zombies mode «Turned,» which turns the tables and allows
gamers to play as a zombie, as well as a new bonus multiplayer weapon, the «Peacekeeper.»
In a tweet to fans a
couple of days ago, Square Enix announced that they are in the process of developing another
game for the Tomb Raider
franchise.
Nintendo has remained an interesting company when you look at their stance over the past
couple of years regarding bringing some of their popular
franchises over to mobile device for mobile
gamers to enjoy.
Having been a predominantly Nintendo
franchise for the last few years outside of a
couple of PSP
games, Monster Hunter returns to Read More...
Every year we cross our fingers and hope that Retro Studios will be allowed to make another Metroid Prime
game, or that Nintendo might see fit to resurrect F - Zero for another outing, but it's probably more likely that the company will be hoping to launch a
couple of all new
franchises with its new console.
The latter will - as you'd expect given the title - offer four player multiplayer and will hopefully see the
franchise return to the form it showed in the first
couple of
games.
A
couple more sequels followed, but TIE Fighter is considered the best of the bunch, and still one of the
franchise's top
games.
The Monster Hunter
franchise has had a ton of collaborations with other
games in the past, and a
couple will be making a return visit in the upcoming Monster Hunter XX.
All of this sound performance
coupled with a great Black Ops III digital season earlier in the year, means that the most successful video
game franchise over the last 20 years continues to be healthy and vibrant and will carry strong momentum into 2018.
A lot of these look like wish fulfillment or derived from press statements and then you get things like Xenoblade Warriors which, frankly, would shock me if it happened — One
game in the
franchise has broken a million sales, Fire Emblem for the bazillion releases it gets isn't that big a
franchise sales wise, sure, but it does get a
couple of million on the regular.
The included
game lineup may not have the mainstream draw of the major Nintendo
franchises, but there are definitely some classics — like Ghouls «n Ghosts, Bionic Commando, a
couple R - type
games, to name a few — that should please any retro gaming enthusiast.
Unfortunately, when it came down to it, Halo 5 brought the
franchise down from what would be described as «an overall good
franchise with a
couple great
games» to «a
franchise that used to be good».
After 3 years of existence,
coupled with life - preserving DLC's, Destiny fans can now rejoice as a new full
game release from the
franchise has now arrived for the PS4, Xbox One and PC.
As a fan of the
game, hearing about all these awesome characters and
franchises that would be coming over the next
couple of years, isn't an easy read, as Infinity was starting to hit its stride and fix issues such as having a long story mode involving every character.
So it's certainly a more interesting
game than the last
couple in its
franchise.
Incidentally, we also hear that Square Enix intended to release the
game in Japan for PS4 an 3DS in May to catch the tail of the 30th anniversary year of the
franchise (which ended on May 26th), but the team decided to delay the launch by a
couple of months to make final adjustments like
game balance and improvements to playability.