10 Underappreciated Video Games That Deserve A Sequel

10. Enslaved: Odyssey To The West

You can have everything you’d think a game would need; star power, gorgeous visuals, fun gameplay, an interesting story and engaging characters, and success is still not guaranteed. On the other side of every sale there’s a decision, and if people don’t feel like your title is the best use of their money at that specific time, then you’re out of luck no matter how wonderful it is.

Take Enslaved for example. Slapped together by the talented team of Ninja Theory, it had everything going for it. With its sharp dialogue and character interactions slap bang in the middle of when those were at their peak popularity thanks to the Uncharted series, it should have been a hit.

The whole world should have been primed to enjoy the adventures of Monkey and Tripitaka but on the horizon, there stirred a beast, a shambling behemoth. Its name was Call of Duty: Black Ops and it released less than a month after Enslaved, meaning it sucked up a lot of the advertising space in the preceding weeks as well as saved up pocket money.

To make matters worse; in the very same month as Enslaved we had both Fallout: New Vegas and Fable 3, so Enslaved wasn’t so much released, as kicked out the door into a firing squad.

And because of this there’s almost no chance we’ll get a pole-swinging, nimbus riding, piggy-back giving sequel out of our two protagonists. Ah well, at least we’ll always have Pigsy’s Perfect 10...