10 Disastrous Followups To Great Video Games

Talk about having an absolute gem of a game on your hands and then dropping it down the toilet on the sequel!

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor was a fantastic new foray into the Lord of the Rings universe for Monolith Productions, delivering a game that was all the best parts of Batman Arkham and Assassin's Creed rolled into lovely LOTR aesthetics. It was great stuff, and it was only further enhanced by the implementation of the Nemesis system, which still amazes us to this day that more games haven't copied it.

Given its critical and commercial success, a sequel was definitely on the cards. We thought what we'd be getting was a more refined, even better version of what came before.

Instead what we got was another bloomin' game so packed full of microtransactions that it completely ruined everything else around it. No matter what you did on Shadow of War, it seemed to constantly be trying to entice you to spend your money to get better stuff than what you could actually get in the game as standard.

Publisher Warner Bros. has since realised the error of their ways and patched all of the offending microtransactions out of the game entirely, but the damage has already been done and the franchise seems to be all but dead.