Sentences with phrase «previous franchise installment»

Not exact matches

But if you do catch up on some of the franchise's previous installments, it will certainly enhance your viewing experience.
The previous installment in the franchise, Fast & Furious 6, made Universal $ 238.7 million last year to become it's second - best performer for the summer of 2013, behind only Despicable Me 2.
Despite pacing problems, «Predators» is a wildly entertaining picture that bends the franchise back to more captivating quandaries, erasing much of the bad taste left behind by previous installments.
I love the combination of Vin Diesel and Dwayne Johnson; they breathed fresh air back into this franchise with the previous action - numbing installment.
A Naruto game designed mostly for online battles and that's because the single player mode is not as polished or as big as in previous installments of the franchise.
Xtreme Legends also introduces a new Legend mode, which offers gamers the chance to compete in new scenarios and old challenges from previous installments in the franchise.
«Fallout» is the first in the franchise to carry over villains and plots that were introduced in a previous installment.
The lead cast members from the last / first installment in both of those separate sci - fi franchises - Noomi Rapace and Harrison Ford - have confirmed previous meetings with Scott about the respective sequels; which, again, makes it hard to determine which is more likely to happen next.
There's nothing better than a little vampire ass - kicking to light up the holiday season, but unfortunately for fans of the «Blade» franchise, the third (and hopefully final) installment of the heroic bloodsucker just doesn't have the same bite as its previous chapters.
The trailers are about the same quality of the other trailers in the franchise, so if you're a fan of the previous three films, there doesn't seem to be any reason not to be excited for this installment.
«In this business, it's not often you see the second and third installments in the franchise outpacing the previous issue,» said David Hollis, Disney's distribution chief.
James Wan directs this time around, taking over the franchise from Justin Lin, who helmed the previous four installments, including the upcoming FAST AND FURIOUS 6, which gets its world premiere in London on the 7th May.
Typically, when you examine a new installment in an established franchise, you look at the previous entries to compare and contrast.
The previous seven films have grossed over $ 6 billion worldwide, and where most franchises tend to lose steam around the third installment, this series has only gotten better over time.
Sam Mendes, who directed the previous installment of the franchise, Skyfall, returns for an encore and once again gives the proceedings an upscale gloss.
«Rogue» is keeping with the franchise's tradition of bringing in a new high - end director for each film — previous installments have been directed by Brian De Palma, John Woo, J.J. Abrams and Brad Bird.
However, just as we have suggested with previous installments of this franchise, without some discussion of characters» intentions, selfishness and prideful behavior, this will only be yet another love story of a strong - willed female protagonist who also happens to be a lethal killer.
Furious 7 Rated PG - 13 for prolonged frenetic sequences of violence, action and mayhem, suggestive content and brief strong language Available on Blu - ray and DVD In this seventh installment of the street racing franchise, the entire gang is back and under threat from Jason Statham who is determined to get revenge for the death of his brother who apparently died in a previous installment (I've seen them all but I honestly can't remember a single plot line).
However, considering how dense the Underworld mythology is and how each sequel / prequel hardly ever slows down to rehash backstory covered in previous installments (much to the franchise's credit), those in need of any sort of refresher in the world's now vast history will find this an invaluable resource, and the disc producers have executed it in such a way that it never disrupts the flow or skips and / or runs over any key scenes in the film.
And to make matters worse, the special effects, for which this franchise is probably most famous, are a step down from what we've seen in previous installments.
While the franchise has a ton of previous installments, I felt this one was extremely easy to jump into.
I look forward to the day when we get to see Bond just go on an assignment that only exists for one film rather than make every movie a sequel to the previous installment to appease grumpy critics and audiences who never liked the first 50 years of the franchise in the first place.
Danny Bilson, VP of THQ's core games division, has confirmed that the next game in the Red Faction franchise will hit this year, containing «insane upgrades» over previous installments.
He worked on Forza Motorsport 1 and 2 and the way he sees it, this third installment is the combination of his previous work on the franchise.
With the on rails shooter spin - off, Dead Space Extraction released this week for the Wii; EA and Visceral Games has revealed they are entering production of Dead Space 2 in the next few months via job postings on a network site stating, «The previous installment in the Dead Space franchise received numerous awards... and the same core team is in place to create an even better follow up.
According to this Forbes article, Infinite Warfare has sold 50 % less that the previous installment of the Call of Duty franchise, Black Ops 3.
What we do know is that the game will be significantly different from the previous installments of the franchise.
Its major game franchises, like Mario and Zelda, regularly capitalize on the collective memories players have for previous installments in the series.
Fans looking for the traditional turn - based combat or RPG elements of previous installments in the franchise should look elsewhere.
When you also take into account that Halo 5 Guardians was not received the best by critics and fans compared to previous installments, I believe it paints a picture for 343 and Microsoft to keep quiet on the future of the franchise.
Did you absolutely love the previous installment of the Resident Evil franchise?
Fans of the series will be happy to hear that major franchise mechanics — the «lean», going «prone» and «slide» — have returned from previous installments.
It appeared to be more of a Grand Theft Auto clone than the pseudo-open-world mobster adventure I had enjoyed in the previous two franchise installments.
EA Sports» FIFA franchise on the PlayStation Portable has offered pretty much the same attributes from previous FIFA installments on the portable system, and 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa continues that trend.
Dragon Age: Origins Primary reason is that on my list of favorite game titles it was one of the only new titles, the others being sequels / new installments of a previous franchise.
Series Producer Eiji Aonuma has said that this new installment in The Legend of Zelda franchise will be a clean break from the conventions of previous games, removing boundaries that forced players to follow a set path and introducing new gameplay that has not been experienced in previous games in the series.
Before leaving BioWare, Hudson was working on the next installment in the Mass Effect franchise, one that wouldn't focus on previous protagonist Commander Shepard.
Halo 5 adds to the franchise the mechanics that it needs and smooths out a lot of the issues in previous installments.
Announced earlier this month, Need for Speed: Payback is a new installment of the massive racing franchise that centers more on the action and energy that made the series famous, but with more theatrical flair than previous games.
Set after the previous two games in the series, Metro: Last Light & Metro: 2033, the third installment in the hit franchise will follow players as they traverse through a post-apocalyptic Russia.
Within the game, players will be following three conmen who are after their own desires and each is playable freely making the game feel quite a bit bigger than previous title installments to the franchise.
It's going to be difficult to top the fifth installment of the franchise, but previous reports indicated Grand Theft Auto 6 is gearing up to be as big - or maybe even bigger - as its predecessor.
Several sources are saying that the upcoming game, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4, will not feature a single - player story mode, that has always been part of previous installments in the franchise before.
As someone who hasn't played any of the previous installments in the franchise, I'd say that Monster Hunter: World offers a kinder approach to novices who are just trying out the game as I did.
They've gone to such lengths with this that future installments of the franchises utilize the decision data your character made in the previous game, enticing players to have multiple play throughs with different results on file.
As compared to the franchise's previous installments, Burnout Dominator is an unusual game, because it lacks one of the series» hallmarks, namely the Crash Mode, which never appeared before.
Sensor Tower Store Intelligence data reveals that during the opening weekend of The Last Jedi, the eighth installment in the Star Wars saga, mobile games based on Disney's blockbuster franchise grew first - time players by 153 percent, or more than 2.5 times the previous weekend's figure.
The way these side quests are managed — and much of the game's other activities, for that matter — also represents a big improvement over Marvel Super Heroes that suggests the Infinity 3.0 team were well aware of some of the criticisms lobbed at the previous installment of the franchise.
When you know a publisher's previous work, or enjoyed a previous installment in a franchise, then there isn't so many issues with pre-ordering, and in the case of Rockstar and Red Dead Redemption 2, we have a pretty good idea of what we're going to get even without official press releases.
Four screenshots from the previous installment in the franchise appear together as a collage, laid over a piece of what looks like fan - art with «Wild West Online» written above it.
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