8 Video Games That Could Have Just Been An Email

8. Devil May Cry 2

Impressively even more polarising than 2013's Devil May Cry reboot, Devil May Cry 2 is one of the most bafflingly undercooked sequels of all time - a bewilderingly naff rush-job which Capcom sloughed out less than 18 months after the acclaimed original.

Devil May Cry 2 put basically every foot wrong - the combat was intensely casualised to the point of tedium, Dante's edgy personality was cleaved away in favour of generic stoicism, and the repetitive level design was an absolute snoozer throughout.

Combine all this with a brief five-hour play-time and how blatantly the storytelling was nothing but filler, and it's little surprise that even ride-or-die DmC fans often recommend newcomers to skip this one and jump straight into the brilliant third game instead.

Devil May Cry 2 did the one thing just about nobody expected - it made the character action franchise boring, damn-near derailing its momentum before it even firmly established itself as a core Capcom staple.