10 Expensive Video Games Nobody Wanted

10. Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness

Lara Croft's reboot trilogy in recent years is not only well received, but also not her first reboot. Or even her second. Yet whilst this iteration is doing well, it wasn't always looking that peachy for the raider of tombs.

The first reimagining came in 2003 with The Angel of Darkness. Scrapping Lara's more traditional, highly acrobatic gameplay into something more grounded, it was intended to reinvent the character as a more serious explorer. Y'know, because shooting dinosaurs isn't "serious" enough.

A lot of the spectacle was replaced with sneaking about restrictive corridors, and as such, fans didn't really take to Croft's leap to the then-newest generation of consoles.

Neither did critics, citing is as lacking compared to what the PS2 and Xbox could offer in terms of better, similar games. Whilst it did sell better than other examples on this list, it wasn't enough to generate interest in the planned reboot titles.

Thankfully, Crystal Dynamics did restore the faith in 2006's Legend (before bungling another franchise on this list), but for a time, Lara's fate was almost as buried as she's been a few times.