10 Divisive Video Game Sequels That Deserve A Second Chance

2. Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger

Despite being one of the few Wild West franchises at the time, the Call of Juarez games never really enjoyed all that much success. The original was something of a cult hit, and its more polished sequel received a bigger push but failed to make many waves.

By the time the third game rolled around, everything unique about the series had been dropped, with the developers swapping out the Western setting for a contemporary time period and a story about a drug cartel.

Though that killed the franchise off completely, there was one final game which followed, an arcade title which returned to the Wild West. Despite the odds, Gunslinger, which adopted a new cell-shaded visual design and focused primarily on small, isolated arcade levels where you had to rack up points with fast, accurate shooting, was perhaps the best game in the series.

It was the meta narrative which made it something special, though. The idea was that you were playing through the stories of a legendary gunslinger, with his exaggerations and recollections shifting the game world as he narrated his life to someone else. It added a unique, surreal element to the story where you couldn't trust anything you were doing, a feature which more releases absolutely need to rip off.