8 Video Games That Ended Before They Started

8. Vanquish

Yes, it's that time again for Jules to wheel out the "Where Is Vanquish 2?" soapbox and loudly shout from atop it once more, as seriously this game demanded and deserved more.

While the story might be a good old slice of B-Movie ham, the action tied things together so well it fits like a well-tailored suit, and with the late-game reveal that your own government was in on the whole coup of the solar sunspace station turned death laser is something that hypes up the player for a showdown for the ages.

Who's first? The Rascally Russian leader Victor? Or is Elizabeth Winters the US President about to get her teeth booted down her throat? Either way, you're scooting towards the end at such speed that you resemble a coked-up greyhound with worms and it's here that the action is put down with a brick. After battling a pair of suped-up mech suits, it's revealed that Victor has already left the space station and Winters has shot herself rather than have the world find out about her treason.

Oh. ok then. Sooooo do we get a final boss battle? No? Just the looming dread that despite the cheery tone of the ending we're about to crash back to Terra Firma and have to deal with a resource war and a panicked central government? Cool.