10 Beloved Video Games You Forgot Never Got Sequels

4. Bulletstorm

Like Vanquish, Bulletstorm also attempted to revitalise a stuck-in-a-rut gaming genre by re-energising the super-serious militant nature of the modern first person shooter. Unlike the Call of Dutys and Battlefields it released around, Bulletstorm attempted to put the fun back into shooters, focusing on moment-to-moment gunplay, environmental kills and combos while throwing away the genre's fetish for ducking behind cover and shooting the same AK 47 for the six hours. Again like Vanquish, Bulletstorm adopted an arcade style and encouraged risky behaviour and imagination in order to achieve the most points for killing enemies. Whether you were kicking bad guys into alien poisonous vines or whipping enemies off the map while head-shotting them into a bolt of electricity, Bulletstorm was a dangerously fun and innovative experience. But sadly the game didn't sell as well as publisher Epic wanted, and the developers were instead put onto a more bankable franchise in the form of Gears of War, and sadly, it looks like Bulletstorm is damned to be seen as nothing but a failed - albeit hugely fun - experiment