10 Disastrous Followups To Great Video Games
4. Ninja Theory - Enslaved: Odyssey To The West To DmC: Devil May Cry
Chances are you've never played Enslaved: Odyssey to the West, but let us tell you: it's one of the most underrated games available on the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3.
Developed by Ninja Theory in partnership with renowned film mo-cap actor Andy Serkis (most famous for playing Gollum in Lord of the Rings), Enslaved was a beautiful-looking, third person post-apocalyptic adventure centred around a growing bond between two characters.
It didn't set the world on fire with its sales - in fact, it's considered a commercial failure. But the actual game underneath is actual really quite fantastic.
In comparison, Ninja Theory's next game, DmC: Devil May Cry, sold reasonably well, but everybody pretty much hated it. DmC was a weird game; it was a reboot of the Devil May Cry series and featured a new, more edgy and millennial Dante that basically everybody pushed back against as soon as he was revealed.
It was meant to be a bold new direction from the series, but the backlash against the character and the overall presentation meant that Capcom soon re-evaluated what they were doing, and the overall sales of the game were much less than that of the game before, Devil May Cry 4.